Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
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Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 17, 202654 min

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with writer and researcher, Jehnie I. Burns about her book, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation ( Lexington, 2023). This conversation builds on earlier ones on music and technology, especially our earlier episode with Anthony Kwame Harrison about the ethnography of hiphop. Vinsel and Burns chat about the rise of mixtape culture, how it played out in different subcultures, and how it was wrapped up in and transformed by technological change. We also announce some big news at the beginning of the episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

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Welcome to the new Books Network. Welcome to Peoples and Things, where we explore human life with technology. I'm Lee Vinsil. Hey everybody, I'm really excited about this week's episode, but first I want to just share

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some big news. For almost a year now, the People's and Things production team, some other friends and I been working on a new project. Very soon we will be launching a new YouTube channel, livestream, and podcast called simply How to Think About Technology. How

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to Think About Technology will have a different vibe and structure than traditional People's and Things episodes. It will feel more like a talk show with multiple segments and a few guests on each episode. It will also be more responsive to new cycles and current events and it will be a space that you can shape by commenting

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