Paul Fess

Assistant Professor @laguardiaCC #CUNY; Scholar of C:19 American literature, student of the fretboard. #c19AmLit

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

@elizabethalsop It doesn’t sound like a typo. I thought you slipped into sailor talk.

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

Wishing a happy 99th birthday to the great Roy Haynes! 🎂 Here is an iconic drum solo from the master from a performance with the Stan Getz Quartet, live in London 1966. (PART 1)

#jazzisdead

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

This is an important aspect of the AI issue. Many of us teachers are getting in a twist about students plagiarizing when the heart of the matter is the attack on the very idea of creative labor

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

I wrote about arguably the largest heist in human history: tech bros training AI with our words, images, songs and entire digital lives.

More here:
https://t.co/H07OIVfHng

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

Sam Green's newest immersive documentary, now playing at Film Forum, breaks the conventional rules in exploring how we perceive, process and feel the world around us through sound. https://t.co/oVnPSzIFm7

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

The Louisiana legislature sorts through the differences between the literal and the figurative.

[NOLA.com @NOLAnews]

'Murder ballads' as evidence? Why Louisiana lawmakers want song lyrics kept out of trials https://t.co/slGApHra7K

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

@marcmaron Good for us but they face their own health crisis: https://t.co/9UtIMVjopM

[GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc]

The Gullah Geechee song “Kumbaya” is a plea to God for help. You may know it as “Kum Ba Yah,” “Come By Yuh,” or “Come By Here.” Once one of the most popular songs in the folk revival of the 20th century, it has more recently become the subject of misplaced scorn.

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

Huge loss

[WWOZ 90.7 FM @wwoz_neworleans]

Huey "Piano" Smith, one of the hitmakers of early rock'n'roll and major contributor to the infectious New Orleans R&B sound, died February 13, 2023 in Baton Rouge. More on his remarkable and long-reaching career at https://t.co/gqnv0KK9gH.

[Dr. Ayize @AyizeS]

#TodayInBlackHistory 1/24 of 1885 #RIP #MartinDelany #Abolitionist #1stBlackUSArmyFieldOfficer #BackToAfrica advocate #1ofThe1stBlackNationalist! @historianspeaks @queenie4rmnola @selmekki @MsSpice9 @SandyDarity @LlcSankofa @dijoni @uniqueloves @kinspire2 https://t.co/FrZHZGKOwB

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers
Complete collection digitized: https://t.co/BQryHTIJ0w

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

@mkirschenbaum Not exactly what you’re looking for, but a good essay about preserving these sounds against the cacophony of C19 London’s street noise is John Picker’s essay “The Soundproof Study” in @jonathansterne The Sound Studies Reader.

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

At bedtime, my two-year-old daughter is the dude in the back of the bar yelling for the band to play some Skynyrd, except it’s this song: https://t.co/XSQcyOEy1P

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Remembering Elizabeth Cotten, born on this day in 1893 in North Carolina. Here she is performing “Washington Blues” in 1965.

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

I remain a sucker for this stuff

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Didn’t realize Gosar and @AOC were mic’d up for this conversation

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

via @NYTimes https://t.co/lpop9rE4OD

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

@Doctor_Dancy

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

“Dark Academia” is an official Barnes & Noble category…

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

@dee_bee_h Associate Dean here to point out that it is a contract, after all…(full disclosure: I am not an associate dean.)

[Paul Fess @paul_fess]

For all you Swifties out there