Word: neos
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...pressed to find anyone these days who is willing to make the case that we have no serious obligations to others when making economic decisions. The fact that multinational corporations feel compelled to at least voice concern for the global implications of their business practices, and the fact that neo-liberal economists do their best to couch their policies in terms of “development” and “poverty reduction,” suggests that the human rights cause has solidly won the battle for public sentiment. Hence, it may seem somewhat pointless to ask whether...
...unsurprisingly, total nerds) rebelled against the self-imposed stylistic limitations of the punk/hardcore quartet while maintaining its traditional instrumental makeup. Underground bands like Slint, Don Caballero, Polvo, and Drive Like Jehu started to incorporate new meters, novel forms and increased technical virtuosity into their music, resulting in an appropriately neo-Baroque sound. Hearing the Advantage, who play a role in this scene, perform Nintendo songs, but one could easily mistake their music for early Shellac instrumentals, revealing the fundamental affinities between the styles.Of course, the links of influence between Nintendo tunes and rock music wasn't purely one-sided...
...deeper registers of country instrumentation, the listener simply can’t make out what she’s singing. The arrangements do little to make up for the bland vocal performances: the sound is cut-rate honky-tonk blues alternated with cut-rate Norah Jones jazzy-pseudo-neo-soul. That’s not to say it’s all bad, because when Marshall puts some effort into it, as in the title track, it’s lovely. The yearning vocals, echoed by the frustrated backing band, give this experiment its best results. The narrator relates giving...
...Zimbabwe’s Minister of Information for my thesis research on the country’s new cultural policy, which bans Western content and heavily funds local propaganda. For three hours, I listened as the minister explained that Zimbabwe is a nation at war against British and American neo-colonialism—the IMF, the World Bank, white farmers, and internal spies and saboteurs. When I asked the minister if his anti-colonial rhetoric masked the fact that he occupied the seat of his old exploiter, his tone changed and so did the topic of conversation...
Mugabe justified his actions with an aggressive propaganda campaign, branding white farmers as neo-colonialists, blaming them for food shortages, and labeling all opposition as sympathetic to white power. Somewhat more subtly, he claimed that the nation must “act as one” to attack its mushrooming problems, and stop “turning against itself through terrorism.” By this he meant that dissent of any kind was tantamount to treason...