Well, now I've gone and done it. Nearly five years after thinking "I should set up a Substack" and undergoing the absolute minimum of effort needed to secure some sort of nascent presence on the site, I've finally taken another step towards the crucial phase of actually starting to write and post things on it. A lot of distracting developments have happened in the long interim between getting this thing planned and putting it into some vague semblance of an actual newsletter: I wrote two books about the recontextualization of popular music (one on
Post-Requisite: an intro
Post-Requisite: an intro
Post-Requisite: an intro
Well, now I've gone and done it. Nearly five years after thinking "I should set up a Substack" and undergoing the absolute minimum of effort needed to secure some sort of nascent presence on the site, I've finally taken another step towards the crucial phase of actually starting to write and post things on it. A lot of distracting developments have happened in the long interim between getting this thing planned and putting it into some vague semblance of an actual newsletter: I wrote two books about the recontextualization of popular music (one on