Latest Marginalization Podcast Episodes

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Omniaudience: “Little Girls,” by Nikita Gale

Medium Rotation - May 28, 2021 13:05 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
A reading of “Little Girls,” Nikita Gale's essay on Tina Turner, Phil Spector, and the prospect of Black performers being heard without being controlled. This bonus episode follows Gale's conversation about Turner—and how the music industry determines whose voices are amplified and whose are sil...

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Omniaudience: Little Symphonies, with Nikita Gale

Medium Rotation - May 28, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Nikita Gale speaks with Alexander Provan about Tina Turner, Phil Spector, and the prospect of being heard without being controlled. Gale tells the story of the genre-busting song that Turner and Spector, the infamous producer, recorded in 1966, “River Deep—Mountain High”: a commercial failure bu...

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Omniaudience: Get Lower, with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

Medium Rotation - May 20, 2021 12:48 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about bass as a way to repulse people or bring them together, cause aggravation or collective pleasure. Toussaint-Baptiste recounts moments in his life when bass, emanating from a parked car or carnival, has shaken his wal...

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Omniaudience: The Dead Can Dance, with Tashi Wada

Medium Rotation - May 13, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Tashi Wada joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about technologies that claim to capture the souls of performers. Wada presents a composition for a “high-resolution player piano” and asks how we discern between human expression and technical perfection, how we listen to virtuosos and ...

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Omniaudience: The Big Society, with Derica Shields

Medium Rotation - May 06, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Derica Shields joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about the value of listening to Black peoples’ accounts and analyses of their own lives. They discuss Shields’s book-length oral history of Black experiences of the welfare state, “A Heavy Nonpresence,” recently published by Triple C...

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Omniaudience: Holy Ghosts, with Harmony Holiday

Medium Rotation - April 29, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Harmony Holiday, a writer, dancer, and archivist, joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about Black performers whose songs and struggles reflect the ongoing trauma of the “African holocaust.” They discuss the pressure to pander to white audiences as well as the impulse to seek a form o...

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Omniaudience: Twenty Thousand Bodies Can’t Be Wrong, with Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan

Medium Rotation - April 23, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Nikita Gale, an artist, and Alexander Provan, Triple Canopy’s editor, are the hosts of Medium Rotation. In the first episode, they ask  who we are—and what we can do—as listeners, members of an audience, and bodies in concert (or in conflict). They introduce the first season of the podcast, Omni...

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Introducing Medium Rotation

Medium Rotation - April 20, 2021 04:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
A trailer for Medium Rotation by Alexander Provan, the editor of Triple Canopy and, along with Nikita Gale, host of the podcast. Why listen? That’s the question posed in the first season of the podcast, Omniaudience. The answer: we become who we are—and relate to one another as individuals and m...

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