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Sound Philosophy — 115 episodes
117-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 6
116-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 5
115-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapters 3-4
114-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 2
113-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 1
112-J Dilla
111-Rhyme, Flow, Content: Eminem and Mac Miller
110-Tool
109-Math Rock
108-Funk Counterpoint and James Brown
107-The Bass and Larry Graham
106-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 10-12
105-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 8-9
104-Minimalism and Popular Music
103-Minimalism, Temporality, Repetition
102-Flamenco, Compas, and the Siguiriyas
101-Twos and Threes: Hemiola, Odd Meters, Tresillo
100-Thumb Like God--Ragtime Guitarist
099-Meter and Time
098-The Backbeat
097-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 6-7
096-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 4-5
095-Cross Domain Application
094-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 2-3
093-Empathy or Sympathy?
092-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 1
091-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 7-9
090-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 5-6
089-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 3-4
088-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 1-2
087-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 12-13
086-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 10-11
085- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 8-9
084- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 7
083- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 5-6
082- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 3-4
081- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 1-2
080-Ambivalence in Neutral Milk Hotel and Nana Grizol
079--Punk Wordsworth: The Smiths
078-MF DOOM and the Materiality of Language
077-Agency and Fate in the Narcocorridos of Chalino
076-The Rhetoric of Law and the Narcocorrido
075-The Fictional Real in Edith Piaf
074- The Elliptical Nature of Subjectivity in Björk
073-Tom Waits and Melancholy
072- Randy Newman's Off-Kilter America
71-Cole Porter and the List Song
70- Aristotle's Rhetoric and Cole Porter's Wit
069- Lyrics as Material and Museme
068- Twelve Open Questions Concerning Lyrics
067-Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 2
066- Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 1
065-Video Game Music
064-BTS, Carl Jung, and the Psyche
063-Death Grips and Accelerationism
062--The Early Beatles and the Artistry of Fun
061-The Aesthetics and Ethics of Taylor Swift's Re-recordings
060-Spotify, Star Texts, and Taylor Swift
59-Anti-Capitalist Hip Hop
58-Hip Hop and the Romance of Capital
057-Neo-Soul and the Body
056-Neo-Soul and Temporality
055- Hardcore Punk and Ronald Reagan
054-Politics and Hardcore Punk
053-Reggae Confronts Babylon
052-Economic and Political Violence in Early Reggae
051- Gospel Music and Surplus Value
050-Early Gospel Recordings and the Ecstasy of Suffering
049--The 1930s Musical Commodity Fetish
048-Tin Pan Alley and the Depression
047- The Numbing Sublime of DJ Screw and Cloud Rap
046--Gangsta Rap and the Hip Hop Sublime
045--Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger, and Murder
044-Outlaw Country, Kant, and Low Down Freedom
043--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.3 Introduction
042--Bebop and Freedom in Play
041--Sapere Aude: Bebop and (Kantian) Autonomy
040--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.2 Prefaces
039-Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.1 Background
038--Giving the Idea to Art: Kant, the Genius, and Prog Rock
037--Progressive Rock and (Kantian) Form
036--The Transcendental Aesthetic of Space and Time in Hindustani Music
035--Shortcut to Transcendence: The US Reception of Hindustani Music
033-Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s and the Problem of the Self
032- Kant's Syntheses and the Ontologies of Music
031--Kant's Three Syntheses and the Album
030- The "First Death" of Hip Hop and "Rapper's Delight"
029-Bossa Nova and Middle-Class Melancholy
028-DJ Kool Herc, Deconstruction, and Synecdoche
027-The Problem with Payola
026- Feeling Otherwise: Music, Commodity, and Streaming
025- Digitalization and the Ontology of Music
024-Graffiti and the Aesthetics of Transgression
023- On Distance, Nietzsche, and Conscious Rap
021--The Carter Family and the Death of God
020 Ralph Peer and the Bristol Sessions
019 Appalachia, Disaster Songs, and Fiddling Contests--Early Country Music
018-Crossing Over: Billboard, Nietzsche, and the Supremes
017-Motown, Black Uplift, and Fordism
016-Booker T. at the Crossroads: Country Blues
015-The Emergence of the Blues in the Mainstream
014 Nietzsche’s Rausch, Aesthetic Form, and Highlife Music
013 Syncretism and Highlife Music of Ghana
012 WEB DuBois, Double Consciousness, and Bert Williams’s Jonah Man
011 An Improvisation on Nietzsche, Adorno, and the Grateful Dead
010 Ragtime, Reversal, and Syncopation
009 Nietzsche Birth of Tragedy, Sections 3-25 and the 1960s Dionysian
008 Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and Repetition in Music
007 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy, Sections 1-2
006 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy: An Introduction
005 Sousa, Nationalism, and Masculinity
004 The 19th-Century Parlor Ballad
003 Early Blackface Minstrelsy and the Racialized Other
002 Colonial Music and the Copyright Act of 1790
001 Popular Music and Mass Art