Associate Prof of American Studies // Univ of Minn // Scholar of race, sexuality, & pop music // Author: *Sounds from the Other Side* (2020) // he, him, his
Jan 19, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
With Timbaland and his sampling of Middle Eastern and South Asian music still trending on Twitter, I'm going to share some academic texts that give context to that early 2000s moment and Timbaland's specific sound...1/9
For me, one of the foundational texts that gets at the heart of the “Timbaland sound” (at least as it appears during the mid-to-late 1990s) is @jasonkingsays' “Rap and Feng Shui: On Ass Politics, Cultural Studies, and the Timbaland Sound”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/97… 2/9
Jun 21, 2020 • 43 tweets • 12 min read
*taps mic*
Today is the 7th day of the #PrinceTwitterThread (organized by @deejayumb) for Prince’s 1994 album Come. And today I’m tweeting about the 6th song on the album: “Race”
FYI this is a somewhat long thread. I hope you enjoy it!
Now, since “Race” is at the halfway point on the album, let’s take look back at the other threads that my fellow Prince scholars have tackled for the album...
