Pettiford claimed, "Basically I’m a bass player. For kicks I play cello, for thought I play piano, and for odd moments I beat on the drums." His style would be "familiar to any modern ear, ... propelling the rhythm section to the front of the sound." - Sahan Journal
"It’s not just Warhol and Prince. Fair use is the doctrine that allows us to record broadcast materials, permits filmmakers to incorporate clips of existing materials into their projects, and ... without it, our cultural experience would be markedly different, and certainly not better." - The Atlantic
"If it shocks people a little, well, I grew up with Madonna. I like to be a little shocking, a little provocative. I really never cared about being for everyone." - The New York Times
The author of Little Fires Everywhere says that as she wrote during the Trump years, she "wanted to look at what had happened in the past, and the dark times in which we have dealt with authoritarianism, and to remember that we’ve gotten through it before." - The Guardian (UK)
Pageviews, Benjamin. Pageviews. "Newsrooms have jumped onto Marvel releases as reliable sources of traffic because the eyeballs are just always there, and people are hungry for that content." Even Good Housekeeping gets in on the act now. - Nieman Lab
Latinx composers made Hollywood's scores, songs, and sounds, starting a century ago. Maria Grever "had studied with French composer Claude Debussy before returning to her native Mexico where she wrote boleros. ... Then, Grever composed songs for movies." - NPR
As a young man, Sergio Aragonés was confused by MAD's offices. "Where was the whimsy? The MAD-cap frivolity? This was no clubhouse of high jinks." So he drew the high jinks into his cartoons for the magazine - and he hasn't stopped for six decades. - Washington Post
That's "an advisory board that was dissolved five years ago after its members resigned in protest over President Donald J. Trump’s reaction to the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va." - The New York Times
The trial is about "claims he copied his hit 2014 song Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, after a federal judge rejected the pop star’s efforts to toss out the long-running copyright case." - The Guardian (UK)
Humanities departments have to face up to what's happening to their students, both undergrad and (here, the news is even worse) graduate students. Where can history majors, for instance, get jobs? "We must do a much better job of providing students with windows into careers." - Inside Higher Ed
Sue Mingus "helped secure legacy as one of the 20th century’s greatest musical minds" after his death of ALS at age 56. Incredibly, she "organized three bands, each with different strengths, to wrestle with the more than 300 compositions he left behind." - The New York Times
Five years on, little has changed, say women behind the scenes. One woman in editorial says, "Realistically, you may have to be willing to jettison your career to break through these behaviors that have been in place for a very long time." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Rules around deaccessioning have long been controversial, with some holding that museum collections should not be treated as liquid assets to weather difficult times." But many current and former museum directors say this decision is clear, and limited. - Hyperallergic
Teodor Currentzis, who has ties to a Russian state-owned bank and has been criticized for it, will step down when his contract ends - in 2025, announced Stuttgart's SWR Symphony. - The New York Times
Andrea Elliott: "The intensity of my reporting stems from a belief that well-told stories—those with depth and nuance—are the product of intimate knowledge. And that comes from being with people, day after day, deeply immersed in their lives." - LitHub
