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117-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 6

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116-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 5

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115-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapters 3-4

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114-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 2

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113-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 1

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112-J Dilla

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111-Rhyme, Flow, Content: Eminem and Mac Miller

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110-Tool

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109-Math Rock

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108-Funk Counterpoint and James Brown

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107-The Bass and Larry Graham

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106-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 10-12

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105-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 8-9

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104-Minimalism and Popular Music

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103-Minimalism, Temporality, Repetition

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102-Flamenco, Compas, and the Siguiriyas

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101-Twos and Threes: Hemiola, Odd Meters, Tresillo

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100-Thumb Like God--Ragtime Guitarist

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099-Meter and Time

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098-The Backbeat

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097-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 6-7

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096-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 4-5

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095-Cross Domain Application

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094-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 2-3

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093-Empathy or Sympathy?

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092-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 1

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091-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 7-9

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090-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 5-6

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089-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 3-4

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088-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 1-2

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087-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 12-13

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086-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 10-11

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085- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 8-9

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084- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 7

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083- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 5-6

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082- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 3-4

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081- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 1-2

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080-Ambivalence in Neutral Milk Hotel and Nana Grizol

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079--Punk Wordsworth: The Smiths

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078-MF DOOM and the Materiality of Language

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077-Agency and Fate in the Narcocorridos of Chalino

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076-The Rhetoric of Law and the Narcocorrido

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075-The Fictional Real in Edith Piaf

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074- The Elliptical Nature of Subjectivity in Björk

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073-Tom Waits and Melancholy

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072- Randy Newman's Off-Kilter America

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71-Cole Porter and the List Song

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70- Aristotle's Rhetoric and Cole Porter's Wit

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069- Lyrics as Material and Museme

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068- Twelve Open Questions Concerning Lyrics

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067-Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 2

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066- Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 1

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065-Video Game Music

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064-BTS, Carl Jung, and the Psyche

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063-Death Grips and Accelerationism

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062--The Early Beatles and the Artistry of Fun

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061-The Aesthetics and Ethics of Taylor Swift's Re-recordings

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060-Spotify, Star Texts, and Taylor Swift

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59-Anti-Capitalist Hip Hop

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58-Hip Hop and the Romance of Capital

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057-Neo-Soul and the Body

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056-Neo-Soul and Temporality

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055- Hardcore Punk and Ronald Reagan

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054-Politics and Hardcore Punk

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053-Reggae Confronts Babylon

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052-Economic and Political Violence in Early Reggae

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051- Gospel Music and Surplus Value

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050-Early Gospel Recordings and the Ecstasy of Suffering

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049--The 1930s Musical Commodity Fetish

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048-Tin Pan Alley and the Depression

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047- The Numbing Sublime of DJ Screw and Cloud Rap

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046--Gangsta Rap and the Hip Hop Sublime

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045--Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger, and Murder

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044-Outlaw Country, Kant, and Low Down Freedom

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043--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.3 Introduction

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042--Bebop and Freedom in Play

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041--Sapere Aude: Bebop and (Kantian) Autonomy

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040--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.2 Prefaces

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039-Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.1 Background

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038--Giving the Idea to Art: Kant, the Genius, and Prog Rock

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037--Progressive Rock and (Kantian) Form

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036--The Transcendental Aesthetic of Space and Time in Hindustani Music

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035--Shortcut to Transcendence: The US Reception of Hindustani Music

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033-Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s and the Problem of the Self

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032- Kant's Syntheses and the Ontologies of Music

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031--Kant's Three Syntheses and the Album

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030- The "First Death" of Hip Hop and "Rapper's Delight"

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029-Bossa Nova and Middle-Class Melancholy

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028-DJ Kool Herc, Deconstruction, and Synecdoche

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027-The Problem with Payola

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026- Feeling Otherwise: Music, Commodity, and Streaming

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025- Digitalization and the Ontology of Music

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024-Graffiti and the Aesthetics of Transgression

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023- On Distance, Nietzsche, and Conscious Rap

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021--The Carter Family and the Death of God

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020 Ralph Peer and the Bristol Sessions

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019 Appalachia, Disaster Songs, and Fiddling Contests--Early Country Music

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018-Crossing Over: Billboard, Nietzsche, and the Supremes

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017-Motown, Black Uplift, and Fordism

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016-Booker T. at the Crossroads: Country Blues