When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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I mean I have some pleasant memories of digging through the inventory at used record stories for buried treasure. But being able to listen to whatever I want whenever I want is just a better experience. And it costs roughly as much per month now as a single CD cost then, no adjustment for inflation

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Life used to be spent in the "in-between" time. Now everything is instantaneous but there's less planning, less thinking, less imagining. A few clicks, but you depend on what a gatekeeper algorithm or private interest allows you to see. It's the difference between the free range and the gilded cage.

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Thursdays at the Nasher Father Figures: Nothing But a Man Thursday, October 22 6–8:30 PM Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University "The Nasher Museum welcomes Mark Anthony Neal and Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt for a screening and discussion of the film 'Nothing but a Man' (1964, dir. Michael Roemer).

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‘When you look at the numbers, we win’: the prophetic Texas pastor poised to take Jasmine Crockett’s House seat Rev Dr Frederick Douglass Haynes III is reclaiming a faith-based politics to counter Trump-allied white evangelicals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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