Welcome to WWW.INSURGENTSEANMURPHY.ORG!
Insurgence
DJ Sean Murphy
The web site
Coming soon
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Featuring the Ongoing Development of a
Critical Bibliography of Progressive Music of Resistance, Rebellion,
and Revolt
and
Podcasts of Sean Murphy's Weekly Insurgence Radio Show from WHYS, 96.3 FM, Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, USA, 10 pm to midnight, US Central Time,
as Well as Shows Specially Developed
Just for this Website
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Insurgence . . . focusing on
progressive music of resistance, rebellion, and revolt . .
. Music composed and performed to aid ongoing struggles for
human emancipation, collective equality, social justice, ecological
sustainability, and a peaceful world . . . Insurgence . . . a growing
movement, a groundswell, an accumulation of forces pressing forward, a
powerful rising from the bottom, upward, from the grassroots, toward a
progressive future . . . Insurgence
. . . in recognition, as Frederick Douglass so aptly declared, “that
without struggle there can be progress” . . . Insurgence . . . in recognition
that the currents that follow the transcendent pathway, the pathway of
supersession of the problems and limitations in the exploitative,
oppressive, and alienative status quo, inevitably ebb and flow, many
times, passing by, circling around, and slowly, gradually, as well as,
at other times, quite suddenly and rapidly, overcoming many--even many
recurrent--obstacles in the course of the long journey . . . Insurgence . . . in recognition of
a broad movement uniting many diverse people–past, present, and
future–across diverse regions and from diverse backgrounds, in a common
quest where we draw strength and sustenance from each other as we each
do whatever we can, no matter how small and inadequate it may often
enough seem, to work together in advancing the causes of human
emancipation, collective equality, social justice, ecological
sustainability, and a peaceful world . . .
Insurgence . . . focusing on
progressive music of resistance, rebellion, and revolt . . . In tribute
to the power of music not only to express and communicate but also, and
ultimately much more than this, to literally embody our aspirations for
a better world and for a better relationship with the larger world,
with each other, and with ourselves . . . Insurgence . . . In tribute to the
power of music to reflect, to remember, to witness, to testify, to
recreate, to imagine, to fantasize, to question, to challenge, to
critique, to protest, to incite, and to inspire . . . Insurgence . . . In tribute to the
power of music to constitute a preeminent mode of collective knowing,
feeling, believing, and understanding . . . Insurgence . . . In tribute to the
power of music to serve as indispensable means and medium of experience
and engagement with life’s vitality . . . Insurgence . . . in tribute to the
power of music to enable us to help us grasp the essence of our being
in motion and interconnection . . .
Insurgence . . . because music in and of itself
can’t change the world but it can help us do so; it can encourage us,
it can inspire us, and it can provoke us to do so . . . Insurgence . . . Music of resistance,
rebellion, and revolt mixed together with music maintaining no overt
progressive social and political concern yet that keeps the flow going,
stops it, redirects it, complicates it, enriches it, and, most
important of all, that takes on new associations in new series and new
juxtapositions . . .
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Prospective
Structure of the Website
I. Opening
Page–Welcome
II. Next
Pages–Introduction with Links to the Following Explanations and
Elaborations:
A.
1. What are the
broad aims of this project?
2. How do I conceive
of ‘progressive music of resistance, rebellion, and revolt’–and why so?
3. Why this is an
open-ended, continuously ongoing project. Why this is a web
rather than a print project. What my role as catalyst,
coordinator, and facilitator entails. How others can get involved
in working with me to help out.
B.
1. Explanation of
the preliminary organization of the website:
a. Part A: 20 Broad
Categories organized in terms of playlists for shows, how sets within
shows are organized, and how annotation is organized for each song, for
each set, and for each show. Explanation of the
categories. Explanation of why structure in form of show
and set playlists. Explanation of the nature of the descriptive
information included in annotations. Explanation of nature
of interpretive/analytical commentary included in annotations.
b. Part B: Model
Sub-Project organized according to its own distinct array of 20 Broad
Categories, again in the form of playlists for shows, how sets within
shows are organized for each song, for each set, and for each
show. Explanation of the categories. Explanation of
why structure in form of show and set playlists.
Explanation of the nature of the descriptive information included in
annotations. Explanation of nature of
interpretive/analytical commentary included in annotations.
2. What is some of
the work I anticipate wanting and needing to do immediately ahead
(i.e., after initial launch)?
a. Complete
preliminary descriptions and annotations for all songs included in all
present playlists (Parts A and B of this site) under all present
categories.
b. Set up means for
others to comment on these and to suggest revisions as well as
additions and substitutions.
c. Add a more
challenging dimension to every set within every show–and that is
incorporation of music, primarily instrumental and/or otherwise
non-lyric driven, which maintains less overt, direct connection to the
category, or subcategory, but by means of situating within context of
existing sets, as part of existing shows, juxtaposed to existing songs,
can not only serve this purpose but also strengthen the potential power
of
each sequence and series.
d. Set up organized
system of cross-links–internal (elsewhere on this site) and external
(for useful information about musicians, recordings, etc., as well as
progressive issues, found elsewhere on other sites) .
e. Set up organized,
detailed opening directory and closing index to content included on the
site as a whole.
f. Set up location
for inclusion of podcasts of sample shows–recordings of live shows on
WHYS/recordings of additional shows constructed just for this site (1:1
ratio). Start to upload and incorporate.
g.
Suggestions/recommendations for future directions of future model area
playlists. Set up means for others to comment on these and,
especially, to get involved in working on these together with me.
h. Create an
Annotated Bibliography of Useful Reading Materials–Music History,
Theory, and Criticism. With a preliminary non-annotated
bibliography of books, articles, and websites.
i. More upgrading of
the graphic design of the site and the constituent features included on
the site.
C. My background and
my interest in this project–as well as my vantage point in approaching
it.
III.
Bibliography–Part A
POTENTIAL CATEGORIES FOR CRITICAL
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC OF RESISTANCE,
REBELLION, AND REVOLT -- GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.
Progressives believe that we are all ultimately
deeply interconnected, that the public good should always come
before private gain, that we should work together to take care of each
other, that we should work together to make a better future for those
who come after us, and that we have a responsibility to do so for those
who will succeed us/ progressives fight against forces and interests
which contend or act otherwise.
2.
Progressives believe we maintain a
responsibility to serve as genuine stewards in relation to our larger
natural environment while progressives at the same time respect and
value the ‘wisdom’ of nature as well as all the ‘wisdom’ of what nature
has created and provided /progressives fight against forces and
interests which contend or act otherwise.
3.
Progressives respect and value the wisdom of
genuinely popular, or folk, cultures, subcultures, and their customs
and traditions as well as their achievements and contributions;
progressives support and defend the right of the oppressed and
exploited to fight back against their exploiters and oppressors; and
progressives seek to assist the relatively disprivileged and
disempowered in raising themselves up through their own
efforts/progressives fight against forces and interests which contend
or act otherwise.
4.
Progressives believe in genuine, substantive,
materially concrete expression of fairness and equality for all,
and progressives sincerely, actively care for those who are relatively
disprivileged and disempowered/progressives fight against forces and
interests which contend or act otherwise.
5.
Progressives believe in working actively to
overcome exploitative and oppressive disparities in social wealth,
social privilege, and social power/progressives fight against
forces and interests which contend or act otherwise.
6.
Progressives believe in the inherent dignity,
worth, and natural equality of all people, regardless of race,
ethnicity, or nationality/progressives fight against forces and
interests which contend or act otherwise.
7.
Progressives believe in the inherent dignity,
worth, and natural equality of all people, regardless of sex or
gender/progressives fight against forces and interests which contend or
act otherwise.
8.
Progressives believe in the inherent dignity,
worth, and natural equality of all people, regardless of sexual
orientation/progressives fight against forces and interests which
contend or act otherwise.
9.
Progressives believe in the inherent dignity,
worth, and natural equality of all people, regardless of age or of
physical and mental ability/progressives fight against forces and
interests which contend or act otherwise.
10.
Progressives respect and value the contribution
of labor, and of laborers, in producing and reproducing social wealth;
progressives reject, oppose, and seek to overcome exploitative and
oppressive forms of class difference, and hierarchy, especially that
realized through the exploitation of labor, and the private ownership
and control of the means, processes, and ends of social wealth; and
progressives are ultimately, in essence, anti-capitalist and
pro-socialist as well as pro-communist/progressives fight against
forces and interests which contend or act otherwise.
11.
Progressives believe in social responsibility and
accountability–and especially in holding those who exploit, and
oppress, as well as those who maintain complicity with exploitation and
oppression responsible, and accountable, for this wrong, while
progressives simultaneously believe in active civic participation, in
citizens taking responsibility for our own government, for governing
ourselves, and for making government truly the people’s servant and
truly serve the people’s interest/progressives fight against forces and
interests which contend or act otherwise.
12.
Progressives believe that genuine community
requires that everyone within the community enjoy the freedom to
realize their full human potential, and progressives believe that
realization of our full human potential as members of a genuine
community is in fact only possible for each and every one of us when
freedoms can actually be exercised and opportunities are in fact
available/progressives fight against forces and interests which contend
or act otherwise.
13.
Progressives fight against social alienation, and
especially against the forces and conditions which generate this
alienation, while progressives at the same time reject, oppose, and
seek to overcome cynicism, apathy, disengagement, and
despair/progressives fight against forces and interests which contend
or act otherwise.
14.
Progressives reject, oppose, and seek to overcome
selfish individualism, and progressives reject, oppose, and seek to
overcome the commercial cooptation of human culture and the
commoditization of human social relations /progressives fight against
forces and interests which contend or act otherwise.
15.
Progressives reject, oppose, and seek to overcome
reification and compartmenalization in thought and action, and
progressives likewise reject, oppose, and seek to overcome
desensitization, callous indifference and lack of concern for others,
as well as processes of ‘othering, and especially ‘abjectification’, in
general/progressives fight against forces and interests which contend
or act otherwise.
16.
Progressives strongly oppose militarism and
imperialism– economic, political, and cultural/progressives fight
against forces and interests which contend or act otherwise.
17.
Progressives strongly oppose fascism,
neo-fascism, proto-fascism, and post-fascism, in all varieties, as well
as all other forms of genuine totalitarianism/progressives fight
against forces and interests which contend or act otherwise.
18.
Progressives commit themselves toward
working actively to advance the causes of human emancipation,
collective equality, social justice, ecological sustainability, and a
peaceful world/progressives fight against forces and interests which
contend or act otherwise.
19.
Progressives believe that real social progress
ultimately requires real social transformation–and not mere social
reformation/progressives fight against forces and interests which
contend or act otherwise.
20.
Progressives believe in the value, and indeed
necessity, of forceful, creative, determined, persistent, and even at
times relentless engagement in questioning, challenging, critiquing,
resisting, rebelling, and revolting versus established power and
authority in order to advance progressive ends and serve progressive
interests.
IV.
Bibliography–Part B
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender, and Queer Music Categories
Progressive Music of Resistance,
Rebellion, and Revolt
Model Bibliographical Sub-Project
Area: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Issues and Concerns
1.
Attraction and Desire
2.
Sensuality and Sexuality
3.
Gender
4.
Versus Normality and Conformity
5.
Anger, Rage, Sorrow and Pain
6.
Happiness, Joy, Pride, and Celebration
7.
Worry, Fear, Confusion, and Doubt
8.
Peace, Tranquility, Escape, and Transcendence
9.
Survival, Resilience, Determination, and Hope
10.
Sickness and Health
11.
Ostracism, Exclusion, Alienation, and Abjection
12.
Discrimination, Prejudice, Harassment, Violence, and Abuse
13.
Institutionalized, Socially Systemic, and Culturally Pervasive Modes of
Oppression
14.
Friendship, Family, Community, Romance, and Love
15.
Cultural Appropriations, Recodings, and Transformations
16.
Subcultures
17.
Political Organization and Mobilization
18.
Future/Alternative Visions and Prospects
19.
Key Historical Moments/Events, Periods/Movements,
Locations/Figures
20.
Morality, Ethics, and Spirituality
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