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Why CDs Should (almost)Always Reign as King of the Best Physical Format for Music

There are endless debates, most of which are pointless that just go around and around in circles, about which physical music format is the…

Aug 24, 2023

Why CDs Should (almost)Always Reign as King of the Best Physical Format for Music

Aug 24, 2023

Chris Robinson, PhD

Why Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is as Country as Country Gets

As I write this Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” continues to sit atop the Billboard Hot 100. Its removal from the top of Billboard‘s country…

May 19, 2019

Why Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is as Country as Country Gets

May 19, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

The world doesn’t need any more John Coltrane reissues. There, I said it. Here’s why.

A couple of weeks ago an email appeared in my inbox from the good folks at Universal Music Group, inviting me to download a sampler from a…

Apr 21, 2019

The world doesn’t need any more John Coltrane reissues. There, I said it. Here’s why.

Apr 21, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

10 Lessons from Seeing Samuel Delany this Week

This week I had the pleasure of seeing Samuel Delany give the annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick lecture at Duke University. Every year the…

Apr 7, 2019

10 Lessons from Seeing Samuel Delany this Week

Apr 7, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

A Brief History of the Origins of Jazz’s Sexism

“Still, the male jazz musician accepts and takes for granted that at every step he’ll be dealing with other men — from club owners to…

Mar 9, 2019

A Brief History of the Origins of Jazz’s Sexism

Mar 9, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

The Importance of Speculative Fiction and How It Implores Us to Create a Leftist, Anti-Capitalist…

Or . . . When the apocalypse comes, don’t say you weren’t warned

Feb 3, 2019

The Importance of Speculative Fiction and How It Implores Us to Create a Leftist, Anti-Capitalist…

Feb 3, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

Give the Drummer Some: How the Right’s Fixation on Nathan Phillips’s Drum Reflects White America’s…

Ever since the video of the group of Covington High School boys surrounding Native American activist Nathan Phillips and — depending on…

Jan 24, 2019

Give the Drummer Some: How the Right’s Fixation on Nathan Phillips’s Drum Reflects White America’s…

Jan 24, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

If I Could Only Have 30 Books

So Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and her Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo is blowing up on my social media…

Jan 18, 2019

If I Could Only Have 30 Books

Jan 18, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

Mac Miller and the Death of The Rapper

I came to the music of Mac Miller late. Like three days before he died late. I had never heard of him before. And because I live under a…

Jan 13, 2019

Mac Miller and the Death of The Rapper

Jan 13, 2019

Chris Robinson, PhD

2018: My Year of Musical Self Care

“Tell them they can take that bullshit elsewhere, Self care, I’m treating me right.” — Mac Miller

Dec 24, 2018

Dec 24, 2018

Chris Robinson, PhD

Chris Robinson, PhD

music writer | saxophonist | independent scholar| bylines in Downbeat, Point of Departure, Hobart Pulp, elsewhere @crmusicwriter |robinsonmusicwriter.com

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