MAL Translation

a critical history, tumblrized *start from the bottom, like drake did*

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Boombox carried by Radio Raheem in the film Do the Right Thing

A Promax Super Jumbo boombox (2014.270.2.1a) used as a prop by the character Radio Raheem in the Spike Lee directed picture, "Do the Right T

now the J-1 lives on as an iPhone case, but at least it's in the Smithsonian

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“portable music technologies in particular afford opportunities for users to participate in complex practices of strategic engagement with, and self-expression through, popular culture in various geographic, political, and economic contexts”

(Palmer, 2021) (p. 62)

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how it's going

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RIP J-1

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"the desires of a single white male subject, desiring a woman’s love but incapable of doing the work required to communicate his feelings for her” (Schloss & Boyer, 2014, p. 409).

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how it started

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Sony - Casual Audio, 1989

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it's over for the bigblackbox

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Conion C-100F

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the death of the political boombox

"the boombox itself was co-opted from a tool of political resistance into an expression of White, capitalist manhood"

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155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 1990

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“a practice of resistance through ritual” (Palmer, 2021) (p. 62)       

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"boombox ordinances"

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A boombox (or Ghetto Blaster) - basically a large but portable cassette player with two or more loudspeakers - was first developed by Philip