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marcelonoah.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University – Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures; Sound, Media, Technology; Poetry, Songwriting, Avant-gardes | Posts in English, Portuguese & Spanish
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Excited about Natalia Lafourcade's vision for her new tour, centered around the concept of 'Cancionera'—sus canciones, una silla, guitarra y voz. NL: “Mi deseo es compartir la intimidad que vivo con mis canciones en mi habitación. En mi casa, en mi universo personal o mi propia imaginación.” 🫶

Students & faculty from BU Dept of Romance Studies have collaborated on the first-ever exhibition on the archive of poet Federico García Lorca. The exhibition Lorca y el archivo: Memoria en movimiento is the largest ever organized by the Centro Federico García Lorca. www.bu.edu/rs/2025/01/2...

SOUND SCENE 2025: CONNECTED MAY 31, 2025 | Hirshhorn, Washington DC hirshhorn.si.edu/event/sound-...

Antonio Dias, "The Occupied Country," 1970. Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 195 cm.

The women in TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land [published 2022] — www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Noise, of course… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/r...

A moment to reflect on the disgraceful date of January 3, 1925, when Mussolini delivered the infamous speech inaugurating the Fascist dictatorship in Italy. A century later, while history might seem to be repeating itself as a farce, it might be actually repeating the tragedy.

Channeling Lola Flores vibes tonight for everyone. Happy New Year!

Another accidental Adorno find today. The apocryphal single copy of “Music in Radio,” written for the Princeton Radio Research Project in 1938, hidden in an untitled black binder. This analysis, among other disagreements with quantitative research, infamously got Adorno expelled from the project.

Gracias, Beatriz Sarlo (1942-2024), por tanto. Nos hiciste mejores lectores y nos enseñaste a mirar el mundo con más lucidez y estilo. ¡Buen viaje, gran maestra!

I just got an email from Ticketmaster saying that Joaquin Sabina had to cancel his concert in Washington, DC. There's no explanation, and I haven’t seen anything in the news yet. Does anyone know what’s going on? I hope the poet is okay.

“When I say ‘we,’ I mean my tape recorder and me” — Andy Warhol

Hobsbawm writing about the Belle Époque and 1914: ‘As Europe moved in growing material comfort towards its catastrophe, we observe the curious phenomenon of a bourgeoisie, its youth and its intellectuals, which plunged willingly, even enthusiastically into the abyss.’

la rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa hasta pulverizarse los ojos — Alejandra Pizarnik

Conociendo a Jacqueline Nova – Incluye el testimonio de Ana María Romano, quien realizó la curaduría e investigación del doble LP "Creación de la tierra - Ecos palpitantes de Jacqueline Nova (1964-1974)", dedicado a la gran compositora colombiana. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjLV...

In my popular music class, it’s basically Spotify creatures vs Apple Music diehards. Nobody’s at YouTube Music. And then there’s the old-school P2P me, the lost-gen 2.0, assigning “rare” MP3 files and missing in silence the endless nights of trading the good stuff on Napster/Soulseek. Anything goes.

The last time I climbed a tree using a dumb smartphone in place of a camera, I ended up falling into a creepy river swamp in the Amazonian rainforest. Nothing but respect for the Portapak generation! 🫶

The earliest known ‘country’ recording has been found. The singer? A Black man. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Lucrecia Martel: “Cuando en un país la realidad se está negando, la lengua sufre mucho”.

R. Piglia: "hay que construir un complot contra el complot, para resistir al complot".

Entrevistador: ¿Usted es chileno, español o mexicano? Roberto Bolaño: Soy latinoamericano.

Is it just me, or do you also feel that most of our professional associations and journals are taking too long to establish accounts on alternative platforms like Bluesky? 🤔

Of all things, I would say Sylvia Plath's Tarot de Marseille deck. It went up for sale in 2021, with an initial estimate of 4,000 to 6,000 GBP at Sotheby's auction, but ultimately sold for 151,200 GBP. www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

"Y me ofrezco a ser devorado por los campesinos españoles" [Verso antropófago, escrito y luego echado, del primer borrador del poema 'Oficina y denuncia' de Federico García Lorca en su Poeta en Nueva York.]

The Stern Center @johnshopkins.bsky.social has a new website! Check it out here: sterncenter.library.jhu.edu

Thrilled to see this online: Dionysus in 69—Brian De Palma's doc showing The Performance Group's seminal adaptation of The Bacchae. A remarkable document on Richard Schechner's 'environmental theater' theories & the exciting 1960s demolition of the 4th wall. sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/mcvdncsq

Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA (Applications submitted by December 23, 2024 will receive full consideration): spanport.ucla.edu/recent-news/...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Arguably, this is the best first 3 minutes and 41 seconds of a music documentary ever made. Of course, you can prove me wrong, and I invite you to do it in the comments below. But Leo’s remark that “there’s no point starting a war right now” feels truly momentous to me. youtu.be/SXsfLUQ8QhM?...

Noise attacks: “N. Korea has amped up loudspeakers along its border for 10-24 hours a day, w eerie noises ... The latest bombardment contains no human sound or music — just nonstop noises that villagers find hard to describe. “It is driving us crazy!” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/w...

For months, I got around Herzog’s film on Mubi, knowing it would feel like sticking my finger in a socket. Now that it’s about to leave the platform, I finally watched it. Magnificent. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin ignites that urge to walk, talk, and write. That says it all.

When music and geopolitics collide: 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’État.' Featuring the U.N., Nina Simone, the Security Council, Dizzy Gillespie, Dwight Eisenhower & Nikita Khrushchev, Miles Davis, the U.S. State Dep., Louis Armstrong, the CIA, and starring Patrice Lumumba. youtu.be/_RwLdIiZk_8?...

Por um desses acasos, caímos de paraquedas na estreia de Correspondences, espetáculo da Patti Smith e Soundwalk Collective, em Bogotá. Foi acachapante. Ela incorpora o oráculo e vai fundo na visão. Os caras são gênios da experiência sonora. É imperdível, que bom que vai rolar no Brasil. Vejam!

from vice to vicious

J. Butler: "We must not only imagine the world in a new way but produce what might be called an irresistible imaginary one, with the power to expose and defeat the passions that now fuel the right because they have passion on their side, unfortunately." [Nov., 2024]

Musk "spent" $44 billion to buy Twitter in 2022, plus $130 million in Trump's campaign; his net worth gain is now up to $70 billion just one week past election night.

Pensar caminhando.

Quem são os proprietários da digitalização dos nossos mundos e vidas? Trabalhamos para as redes que habitamos, que lucram com o nosso tempo e presença. O dissenso, a diáspora de uma determinada rede social para outra é também uma forma de resistência contra formas desmesuradas de dominação. Sigamos.