Episode 320: Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson [Discologist]
Discologist9 Nov 2017

Episode 320: Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson [Discologist]

With Control, Janet Jackson became a household name, but it wasn't until her 1989 album Rhythm Nation 1814 that she ascended to the status of music legend.


Buttressed by pop hits and jam-packed with hooks set loose from some future utopia, Nation was a not-so-subtle exploration of racism, sexism, love, and social responsibility that sought to elevate our humanity by any means necessary. More importantly, it's an album who's messages sadly may be MORE relevant almost thirty years later.


Join Kevin, Marcus K. Dowling, and Timothy Anne Burnside (National Museum of African American History and Culture) as they consider this landmark achievement in music.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Avsnitt(593)

Episode 314: Dialogue - Aaron Abernathy

Episode 314: Dialogue - Aaron Abernathy

On 2016's Monologue, soul man Aaron Abernathy explored his journey from a boy to the man he is today. Abernathy had every intention of continuing that story in his next song cycle, but a funny thing h...

19 Okt 20172h 12min

Episode 313: Harmony Of Difference - Kamasi Washington

Episode 313: Harmony Of Difference - Kamasi Washington

Bolstered by the success of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly and his own, uh, epic 2015 release, The Epic, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, along with the rest of The West Coast Get Down have spent ...

16 Okt 201758min

Episode 312: Go-go As History Vol. 2

Episode 312: Go-go As History Vol. 2

On August 15, 2017, Marcus K. Dowling convened the second in a series of panels entitled "Go-Go as DC History," a DC Public Library Go-Go Archive series intended to study the history of the Nation's C...

12 Okt 20171h 58min

Episode 311: Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers'

Episode 311: Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers'

David Bowie was from Mars. Prince was from another universe. But Tom Petty? Tom Petty was one of us. And now he's gone.It's a bittersweet episode of ChunkyGlasses: The Podcast as we eulogize one of th...

9 Okt 20171h 37min

Episode 310: Wide Open - Michael McDonald

Episode 310: Wide Open - Michael McDonald

Between the domestic terrorist attack in Las Vegas that claimed the lives of over fifty people and injured some 500 more and the passing of music legend Tom Petty, it's been a pretty rough week. Kevin...

5 Okt 20171h 25min

Episode 309: Poor David's Almanack - David Rawlings

Episode 309: Poor David's Almanack - David Rawlings

David Rawlings has made a career out of being the literal best. His work with Gillian Welch and under the moniker of The Dave Rawlings Machine isn't just a shining example of how "pure" music can succ...

2 Okt 201750min

Episode 308: Aromanticism - Moses Sumney

Episode 308: Aromanticism - Moses Sumney

Moses Sumney has a voice from out-of-this world, and soul as deep as an ocean. On his debut LP, Aromanticism, the Los Angeles singer/songwriter swimming in a genre agnostic sea and coming back to land...

28 Sep 20171h 9min

Episode 307: Hallelujah Anyhow - Hiss Golden Messenger

Episode 307: Hallelujah Anyhow - Hiss Golden Messenger

MC Taylor's Hiss Golden Messenger may just be the Southern soul we deserve. On their ninth album proper (and fourth for Merge Records) the modern day skiffle-kings are delivering one of their stronges...

25 Sep 201751min

Populärt inom Nöje

mellan-himmel-och-jord-med-jlc
mardromsgasten
filip-fredrik-svarar
badfluence
nemo-moter-en-van
fordomspodden
dialogiskt
chilla-med-de-vet-du
podme-bio-4
rss-p3-musikdokumentar
skalla-dagen-med-mia-skaringer
schulman-show
fem-i-topp
schlagerkoll-special
hollywood-love-stories-3
gott-snack-med-fredrik-soderholm
skandal
hemma-hos-strage
mannen-utan-spar
hundaren-motgangspodden-av-tomas-andersson-wij