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Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture

Love is the Message podcast

Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture is a new show from Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert, both of them authors, academics, DJs and dance party organisers. Tune in, Turn on and Get Down to in-depth discussion of the sonic, social and political legacies of radical movements from the 1960s to today. Starting with David Mancuso"s NYC Loft parties, we’ll explore the countercultural sounds, scenes and ideas of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ”There’s one big party going on all

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00:10:22

LITM Extra - Interview with Daphne A. Brooks pt.2...

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2022/01/27

This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode we conclude our two-part interview with Black Feminist scholar and music critic Daphne A. Brooks. Following from our previous show, Daphne disucsses some of the contemporary figures in her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound,

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01:24:45

Roots and Routes: Flows of Influence in '70s Africa

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2022/01/20

In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim complete their three-part study of African music by looking at the flows of musical influence across the Black Atlantic. They explore how diasporic sounds reflected back on music being made in African nations, including the heavy Latin rhythms found in the Malian Super Rail Band and the fingerprint of Duke Ellington on the Ethiopian Jazz of Mulatu Astatke. Tim and Jeremy also investigate how state subsidies in aid of building national culture affected musical

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00:07:44

LITM Extra - Interview with Daphne A. Brooks pt.1...

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2022/01/13

This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode we are happy to present the part 1 of our very first interview on LITM. Jeremy and Tim were happy to welcome the Black Feminist scholar and music critic Daphne A. Brooks to the show to discuss her new book, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist

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01:13:04

Fela, Funk, and Nigeria in the Early '70s

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/12/16

In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy continue with the second part of their mini-series on the music of '60s and '70s Africa. They start with an exposition on the ideas put forward in Paul Gilroy's seminal book The Black Atlantic. With reference to a variety of historical theorisations of the experience of Black people since the period of slavery, we hear how Gilroy offered a diasporic understanding, showed the moderness of black cultural production, and opens questions of why music ended up paying

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00:10:52

LITM Extra - Afrofuturism pt.3 [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/12/09

This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode, Jeremy and Tim finish their mini-series on Afrofuturism. As it's LITM, the guys finally dig into the contested role of Disco to Afrofuturism, taking in the futuristic innovations of Larry Levan, the queer cyborg aesthetics of Sylvester, and the key developments being made on

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01:23:00

Counterculture to Modernity? Music from Africa in the...

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/12/02

In this week's episode Jeremy and Tim expand their series on Afro-Psychedelia with a multi-show exploration of the music of Africa, beginning today in the 1960s. They discuss the contested and shifting conceptualisations of Africa through history, the emergence of Marcus Garvey and Pan-Africanism, Paul Gilroy's seminal book The Black Atlantic, and the production of the specific relationship between Black Americans and Africa as a form of identity. Jeremy and Tim look at the national liberation

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00:13:23

LITM Extra - Afrofuturism pt.2 [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/11/25

This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this week's patrons-only episode, Tim and Jeremy continue their mini-series on the aesthetic and political content of Afrofuturism. Beginning with Kodwo Eshun's 1998 book More Brilliant Than The Sun, Tim and Jeremy interrogate the thinking of a number of academics and journalists around the Cybernetic Cultural

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01:36:17

Flushing the Categories Away: Psychedelic Jazz

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/11/18

In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy describe the genres of psychedelic jazz and fusion. Drawing on rock, modal and free jazz and funk, as well as a wider pool of international musics, we hear how artists like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report created - through processes of fusion and fission - a new sound. Tim and Jeremy consider the impact hearing the Grateful Dead had on Miles, the virtuosity and immanence of his trio of fusion albums, and the struggles he had in marketing this new

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00:05:37

LITM Extra - Afrofuturism pt.1 [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/11/11

This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In the first few episodes of our new series on Afro-Psychedelia we've mentioned the concept of Afrofuturism a few times, so we wanted to take a moment to record this supplementary patrons-only two-parter outlining exactly what we mean by the term. Beginning with Mark Derry's 1994 book Flame Wars, Tim and Jeremy

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01:24:40

A City Called Heaven: Afro-Psychedelia in Gospel,...

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/11/04

In the second episode of our third series, Tim and Jeremy describe a psychedelic aesthetic appearing in the transformative and rapturous musics of the American Black church, Rastafarian Jamaica and Nigeria, with reference to Gospel, Juju, Reggae and Funk. They counterpoint this with a strain of musical antipathy with roots in Plato and iterating in radical Protestant tendencies throughout history, while also pointing up the specific and slightly scary millenarianism to the utopias imagined through

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00:09:37

LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, Oct '21 [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/10/28

This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music has been on their turntables recently. In line with the themes of our new series, Tim and Jeremy have been on an Afro-Psychedelic tip recently. In this show they discuss the relational philosophies of early '70s anti-colonial

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01:19:48

American Afro-Psychedelia

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/10/21

Love is the Message returns with series 3! In our last cluster of episodes, Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert took a deep look at the musical, social and political currents flowing through New York City from the late '60s to around 1975. This time, they're turning their attention outwards, expanding their analysis of this crucial period of time to include South America, the Caribbean, West Africa and parts of Asia. In this opening episode of the series, Tim and Jeremy are exploring American examples

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00:04:55

LITM Extra - 'Love Saves the Day' Reading Series -...

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/10/14

This is an excerpt from a patrons-only LITM Extra episode. To hear the whole thing, as well as conversations between Tim and Jeremy about what they've been listening to, intermittent lectures, listeners' questions and more, visit www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 a month. Continuing our ongoing patrons-only reading series, Tim picks up where he left off in his 2004 book 'Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979'. I'm sure you'll all have heard

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00:08:41

LITM Extra - Listeners' Questions, Oct '21 [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/10/07

This is an excerpt from a patrons-only episode. To hear the whole thing, along with accessing lots more LITM Extra content, go to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 per month. In this patrons-only episode of LITM Extra, Tim and Jeremy take questions from you, the listeners. They talk about the portrayal of disco as synthetic music, the misplaced protest of rock musicians and fans against the genre, and dig into the odd phenomenon of the novelty disco single. Tim and Jeremy

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01:22:35

[UNLOCKED] LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, Aug '21

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/09/30

We've unlocked this patrons-only bonus episode from August, in which Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music they're listening to at the moment. To hear more of these conversations, along with book readings, lectures, Q&As and (soon) interviews, become a patron from £3 per month by visiting www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. Tim and Jeremy discuss New Orleans hip hop, big edits of legendary tunes, reissue culture, online digging, playfulness in music, and getting back into the saddle

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00:09:55

LITM Extra - Live Conversations Recording 10th Sept....

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/09/23

This is the an excerpt from the audio of our first patrons-only 'Live Conversations' between ourselves and our patrons, which took place over Zoom on the 10th September. To hear the whole thing, and to participate in the next one, along with accessing lots more LITM Extra content, go to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 per month. Tim and Jeremy discussed and took questions on Acid, Ecstacy, and the 'downer' drugs; talked about the particulars of the Japanese listening bar

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00:04:48

LITM Extra - 'Love Saves the Day' Reading Series:...

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/09/21

This is an excerpt from a patrons-only LITM Extra episode. To hear the whole thing, as well as conversations between Tim and Jeremy about what they've been listening to, intermittent lectures, listeners' questions and more, visit www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod to become a patron from £3 a month. In first of an ongoing patrons-only project, Tim reads from his seminal 2004 book 'Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979'. I'm sure you'll all have heard him reference the

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01:28:24

What's In A Name? Disco Gets Genrified

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/09/09

In the final episode of our second series, Tim and Jeremy turn to 1974 to consider the emergence of disco as a discernible and self-conscious genre. Does genre allow people to define themselves through the music they listen to, and to consider themselves part of a (physical or imagined) community? Or is genre simply a cynical tool of division promoted by a rapacious media and music business thatstifles creativity andinteraction? Tim and Jeremy alsoconsider our present moment of algorithmic listening

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01:24:04

'Liberation Conversation' - Feminist Soul

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/09/02

In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy explore one of the most important musical currents of the early '70s, Feminist Soul. Beginning with Aretha Franklin, they situate the music of these powerful, articulate and conscious female performers within the Women's Liberation and Black Power movements, alongside the scholarship of Simone de Beuvoir and Angela Davis, and in relation to the girl groupsof Motown and the mid-'60s. Through lyrical, musical and cultural analysis, Tim and Jeremy also consider

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00:15:09

LITM Extra - What We're Listening To, August '21

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture ·

2021/08/31

This is an excerpt of a full length episode currently only available to patrons. To become a patron and support what we're doing from £3 per month, head to www.patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. In this patrons-only bonus episode, Jeremy and Tim have a conversation about what music they're listening to at the moment. Tim and Jeremy discuss New Orleans hip hop, big edits of legendary tunes, reissue culture, online digging, playfulness in music, and getting back into the saddle of DJing again. This is part

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