Living Colour - Cult Of Personality

À la fin de mes études à Montpellier, j’écoutais en boucle les deux albums de Living Colour : Vivid (1988) et surtout Time’s Up (1990). C’est marrant que j’ai un peu oublié ça. J’ai réécouté les albums hier, ça a vachement bien vieilli.

Et puis dis-donc, si tu veux te la péter, c’est quand même des chansons avec des paroles comme ça (Type, sur Time’s Up) :

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HbF3EAt3ck

Minimalism
Abstract expressionism
Postmodernism
Is it?

We are the children of concrete and steel
This is the place where the truth is concealed
This is the time when the lie is revealed
Everything is possible, but nothing is real

Le slow qui tue : Love Rears Its Ugly Head
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQcPB1WkISI

Leur premier tube, Cult of Personality :

I’ve been everything you want to be
I’m the cult of personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy

[…]

I tell you one and one makes three
I’m the cult of personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi

►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

Et puis en 92, remplacés dans le lecteur de CD par le premier album de Rage Against The Machine (un groupe avec des fringues beaucoup plus faciles à assumer).

Dis, @sinehebdo, tu as quelque chose en stock sur ces groupes bruyants pour lecteurs de Chomsky ?

Living Color. The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color - Nina G. Jablonski - Paperback - University of California Press
▻http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520283862

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Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible feature influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. Nina Jablonski begins this fascinating and wide-ranging work with an explanation of the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, tracing how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe, exploring the relationship between melanin and sunlight, and examining the consequences of mismatches between our skin color and our environment due to rapid migrations, vacations, and other life-style choices.

Aided by plentiful illustrations, this book also explains why skin color has become a biological trait with great social meaning—a product of evolution perceived differently by different cultures. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, and how prejudices about dark skin developed and have played out through history—including as justification for the transatlantic slave trade. Offering examples of how attitudes toward skin color differ in the United States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, Jablonski suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.

Il est sorti en 2014 et ça a l’air super intéressant, quelqu’un l’a lu?

#seenthis_sait_tout #peau #racisme