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Reading this to torture myself. I cannot stand Bernie Sanders and his faux-progressive "social democracy" views. In the opening pages, he claims israel, the new nazis, have a "right to defend themselves". I wish I could spit in his face.

Also, whatever Gen Z intern is editing this book should be let go. Because the editing and use of "casual" lingo is irritating as fuck.

I am embarrassed to say how long it's been since I took a philosophy class so this hits me like a ton of bricks!

Still an incredible read, an indepth look at J Dilla's life, but god help you if you can't read music LOL. I keep having to just pull up songs that the author references to try and understand how the beats are in different time signatures. And also i am not 100% sure what a time signature is.

The entire second chapter on the brief history of Detroit as a result of colonialism, up to the rise of industry in modern times, with the interwoven lessons on musicology and how effortlessly Charnas ties all of this into J Dilla's life, is superb. I'd give 5 stars to this second chapter alone.

A neat and meticulous breakdown of rhythm and music theory, and how it was originally multicultural but was then beat into a singular universality by European and then american colonialism.

A side note: this breakdown is amazing but I cannot read or understand written music to save my life, lol. I imagine this would be even cooler if I could.

I love how the foreword tries to stress that Deborah Mitford remained "firmly apolitical her whole life" but then she winds up being the most racist sister alongside Unity and Diana.