Colored Craig - CLUB CRAIG: Music From The Vaults
Colored Craig - CLUB CRAIG: Music From The Vaults

Sound Study will follow unexpected resonances, feedback, and musical migration around the world. Tune in for situated listening, original field recordings, and occasional interviews with guest DJs, artists, and scholars.

This month’s episode features guest Alex Blue V.

Alex Blue V is a musical jack of all trades, enjoying his life as a performer, writer, arranger, producer, educator, adjudicator, researcher, and more. He is Assistant Professor of Black Studies in Media and Technology in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. His research examines the intersections of race, sound, space, and place, often employing heavily ethnographic methods to demonstrate the influence of race on sound, and the influence of sound on race. Blue is currently working on two book projects. The first, titled A Matter of Death and Life, is a “necrographic” study of the narratives of death and dying in contemporary Detroit hip-hop, and how artists employ various forms of death as praxis in music making. The second, which he is co-authoring with Dr. Kyle DeCoste (Tulane University), is an ethnographic study of country rap, also known as “hick hop,” that examines issues of race, gender, class, nationalism, and identity, primarily (but not entirely) in the southern United States.

Prior to his PhD in Ethnomusicology at UC Santa Barbara, Blue had an extensive background as a performer, having received his bachelor’s in Trombone Performance and his master’s in Jazz Studies from Texas Tech University and University of North Texas, respectively. He was the Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College, and a Predoctoral Fellow in Music at Ithaca College.


Tracklist:


Blue Devils – Metamorph
Blizzard- Smile Bomb
J Dilla – Two Can Win
Bruiser Wolf – Let the Young Boys Eat
Danny Brown – EWNESW
Dopehead – Guttah, Guttah
42 Dugg – Death On Me” (remix)
Sada Baby – Whole Lotta Choppas
King Gordy and Bang Belushi – Put It Out
Apollo Brown and Guilty Simpson – Dear Jane
Boldy Jones – Nu Wave
Fines Double – Second Line” (ft. Mic Write)
Kash Doll – Run Me My Money
ZelooperZ – Battery
Project Paccino – Certified
Sheefy McFly ft. Lola – Go and Jit
DJ Assault – Yo Relatives
DJ Deeon – Shake What Your Momma Gave Ya
Demun Jones – Straw Hat
Drexicya – Neon Falls
Foul Mouth – Detroit Gospel
SKYWLKR – Strawberry Cough
Phat Kat – Cold Steel
Chico Sonido – One Reggaeton for Dilla
J Dilla – Fall in Love (instrumental)
Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchinanda
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