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Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture?

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In the new consumer economy, you get consumed

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on Tue, 11PM

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Where Do Music Genres Come From?

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A new section from my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'

on Sat, 9PM

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What's Happening to Entertainment?

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An arts & culture briefing paper

on Fri, 5PM

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The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music

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The strange case of Leo Kofler

on Sep 15

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10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing

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Or How Silicon Valley Started Breaking Bad

on Sep 13

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Live Music Is Coming Back!

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Is this the first stirring of a backlash against sanitized, algorithmic digital culture?

on Sep 10

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The State of the Culture, 2024

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Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

on Sep 9

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Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next

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Are you ready? Is anybody ready?

on Sep 8

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Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean

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Instead of real portraits, Google serves up AI-generated garbage

on Aug 31

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My Alternative Tech Canon: 26 Mind-Expanding Books

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These works offer a holistic, humanistic critique of technology—and healing alternatives to a device-driven life

on Aug 29

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Fela Kuti in Prison

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How Nigeria literally went to war against one musician—and lost

on Aug 27

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52 Reasons to Fear that Technological Progress Is Reversing

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Now is a time for brutal realism and here's what it tells us

on Aug 27

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The Hottest Trend in Romance Is "Just Talking"

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Here's my latest culture briefing

on Aug 24

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Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music

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Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?

on Aug 23

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The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass

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I praise his work as a composer—but also as plumber, taxi driver, steel mill worker, and in other trades

on Aug 14

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The Death of the Magazine

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Or what happens when journalism forgets about quality writing

on Aug 9

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Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde

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Has it disappeared? Does anybody care? Should they?

on Aug 7

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Expect Heavy Turbulence for the Next 5 Months

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My latest update on arts, culture, and the media

on Aug 6

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How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop

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Let's look at the warning signs

on Aug 3

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The Honest Broker | Ted Gioia | Substack

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A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia. Click to read The Honest Broker, by Ted Gioia, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

on Aug 3

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Who Was Kid Bailey?

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I try to solve the last big mystery of the Delta blues

on Aug 2

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A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now

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This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative fields

on Jul 28

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When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists

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They did it for 40 years—so why did they stop?

on Jul 25

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The Slow, Painful Death of the SoCal Entertainment Ecosystem

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And other trends in arts, culture & society

on Jul 24

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Do Drummers Live Longer?

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And can listeners also enhance their health through rhythm?

on Jul 21

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"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life"

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A story from the comments section

on Jul 16

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The Best Books of the 21st Century

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The Honest Broker assesses the NY Times list

on Jul 13

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A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities

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Can you really learn this stuff by just reading 250 pages per week for a year? Let's try and find out.

on Jul 12

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How to Read Plato

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And other remarks on teaching yourself great books

on Jul 11

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My Lifetime Reading Plan

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I share some private details of how I educated myself through books

on Jul 9

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The Culture is Changing at Warp Speed

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Here's my latest briefing paper on arts, media, tech, and society

on Jul 9

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He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star...

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But Ford Dabney kept making wrong bets at the wrong time

on Jul 6

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How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?

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Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid

on Jul 4

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How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon

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Here's a five point plan that makes a difference (and not just for music)

on Jun 26

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The Banishment of Beauty from Everyday Life

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What happens when a slapdash and uncaring aesthetic permeates everything?

on Jun 25

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The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History

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He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer

on Jun 25

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Ten New Albums I'm Enjoying Right Now

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All styles, all genres, all geographies

on Jun 23

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Crisis in the Culture: An Update

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I revisit past predictions

on Jun 23

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Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25?

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How a creepy experiment from 1968 is eerily relevant today

on Jun 11

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The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises

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Here's how you kill an entire genre

on Jun 5

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Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken

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So I'm begging the tech overlords to let us opt out from their dystopia

on May 25

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Stupidity: A Reading List

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You get smarter by studying foolishness—so here's how I'd teach a 12-week course on stupidity

on May 22

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I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year

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Here's my guest appearance on Rick Beato's video channel

on May 20

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Why Creatives Will Win by Thinking Small

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In 2024, the path to success has been turned upside down

on May 14

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How Coffee Became a Joke

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The crisis at Starbucks is a sign of our un-serious times

on May 5

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30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

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And why did youth mental health problems accelerate after 2010?

on May 3

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Western Music Isn't What You Think

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Or how my views on culture proved to be all wet

on Apr 30

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30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

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And why did youth mental health problems accelerate after 2010?

on Apr 28

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The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star

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Do streaming platforms view famous artists as a threat to their brands?

on Apr 15