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An educator, scholar and critic of music, politics and media, Jayson Harsin was an indie rock and alt. country dj for seven years at WNUR radio in Chicago. He has two blogs. A music blog: "Parisite:Indie News from Paris," and a Politics, Media, and Culture blog: "Pearls Before Swine".His academic writings have been published in several books and journals. He is also a regular music contributor to Popmatters, and his writing on film has appeared in Bright Lights Film journal (online) and Bad Subjects. He is currently at work on a book, The Rumor Bomb: Vertiginous Politics in Convergence Culture.
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Sarkozy for French president: Neo-fasicsm by a shrewd politician?
Kirk Rundstrom, the beaming, generous and energetic front man of Split Lip Rayfield is dead at 38.
Review of the blues, country, punk album by Scott H. Biram: Graveyard Shift.
A recent Reuters story on Americans' public opinion regarding universal healthcare demonstrates the flaws of news covering polls.
Part II of a meditation on Indie American style transplanted in France
An indie encounter with French fashion norms and a meditation on their relation to power and identity--what's in a pair of pants?
Girls Against Boys Concert at La Maroquinerie club, Paris France showed the band still doing what they do best, even if too briefly.
MP3 Peep Show: Or Riding the Metro with Jayson
The Year Without a Santa Claus — holiday humanism with a feminist, secular twist.
Solidarity in pain, regret, and hope for the holidays.
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