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As the country gets more diverse, the radio gets more homogeneous. I don’t mean this in the ethnic sense, of course; America’s rockstars are more colorful than ever! Instead, the songs that dominate the country’s charts are beginning to sound more and more alike. The average pop station tends to be an indistinct mass of the same noises Read more …

Published: July 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, culture creation, culture distortion, hip-hop, Jews in music, music, North American New Right, originals, pop music, popular culture, rap music, Scott Weisswald | 33 Responses

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Worlds Enough & Times:
The Unintentionally Weird Fiction of Fred Hoyle

James J. O'Meara

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Fred Hoyle (Sir Fred Hoyle, FRS)
October the First Is Too Late
London: Heineman, 1966; New York: Harper & Row, 1966
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1968 (paperback)
Richmond,Va.: Valancourt Books, 2015 (with an Introduction by John Howard)

Penny: So, how you been?

Sheldon Cooper: Well, my existence is a continuum, so I’ve been what I am at each point in the implied time period. Read more …

Published: March 4, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, H. P. Lovecraft, Harry Partch, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, science fiction, weird fiction | Leave a comment

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If You Could See What I Hear:
The “Music” of “André Pogoriloffsky”

James J. O'Meara

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André Pogoriloffsky (Andrei Covaciu-Pogorilowski)
The Music of the Temporalists
Charleston: Createspace, 2011

“The fact that no new pitch system ever replaced the twelve tone system is no proof that our forefathers were right.”

Having unwittingly unleashed upon myself a tsunami of abuse by publishing a series of essays questioning the value, or validity, of the European musical tradition — accompanied by, I thought, the “say something positive,” Read more …