Tech & Sensibility
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Research & Teaching
  • Digital Humanities
    • Singing the Nation Into Being
  • T&S: Digital
    • In Retrospect: The Podcast
ideas intersecting. ideas connecting.
Browse: Home » Music

Reading Hip Hop: Black Lives, Black Protest

July 3, 2017 · by sd · in Music, Teaching, Uncategorized

This week’s playlist from my course, Reading Hip Hop, provides a sample of music we engage in our conversations about Black Lives and Black Protest. Students also watched the film, Do the Right Thing, and discussed readings by Robin D.G….

Singing the Nation Into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Black Female Performance

Singing the Nation Into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Black Female Performance

March 7, 2017 · by sd · in Digital Humanities, Music

This project  focuses on black women’s performance of James Weldon Johnson’s  “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to examine what these evocations might reveal about black subjectivities, diaspora, and identity formation vis-a-vis discourses on national belonging. Part of a larger Omeka-based project called…

Pairings: Zapp and T-Pain

June 30, 2014 · by sd · in Music

I am drawn to the simplicity of both these love songs as well as the way they engage technology and the “modern.”   “Computer Love” –Zapp “You know, I’ve been searching for someoneWho can share that special love with meAnd…

Pairings: Jean Grae and Beyoncé

March 26, 2014 · by sd · in Music

I have to admit it, I like Beyoncé’s “Partition.” But the more I listen, I can’t help but be reminded of  an earlier song by Jean Grae, “Love Thirst.” I find it interesting the way each woman visually represents sexual…

About Tech & Sensibility

Tech & Sensibility comes from my engagements with technology both professionally as a journalist and in academia as a professor. It is a play on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, that notion of striking a balance in life between logic (sense) and emotion (sensibility). Yet, this is also about the tensions within the notion of balancing the two. Tech & Sensibility looks at the intersections of technology: race, gender, sexuality, culture, identity, nation, and more and invites us to explore both the tensions and the delicate acts of balance that we employ daily.

Lift Every Voice and Sing

http://techandsensibility.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/▶-Melba-Moore-Lift-Every-Voice-And-Sing-YouTube.webm

Copyright © 2023 Tech & Sensibility

Powered by WordPress and Origin