Episode 227: Jace Clayton

Published: Jan. 11, 2017, 5:52 p.m.

b'Jace Clayton is a music writer and musician who records as DJ /rupture. His book is Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture.\\n\\n \\u201cWhat does it mean to be young and have some sound inside your head? Or to be in a scene that you want to broadcast to the world? That notion of the world is changing, who you\\u2019re broadcasting to is changing, all these different things\\u2014the tool sets. But there\\u2019s this very fundamental joy of music making. I was like, \\u2018Ok. Let\\u2019s find flashpoints where interesting things are happening and can be unpacked that shed different little spotlights on it, but do fall into this wider view of how we articulate what\\u2019s thrilling to be alive right now.\\u2019\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@djrupture\\njaceclayton.com\\n[04:15] Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux \\u2022 2016)\\n[05:00] Wax Poetic\\n[05:30] "Slow Burn" (The Fader \\u2022 Jul 2008)\\n[06:00] "Past Masters" (The National \\u2022 Mar 2009)\\n[15:30] "Pitch Perfect" (Frieze \\u2022 May 2009)\\n[23:30] Mudd Up!\\n[29:15] "Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner" (The Music Gallery \\u2022 Oct 2014)\\n[29:30] Julius Eastman\\u2019s Femenine\\n[35:00] The Mudd Up! Radio Archive\\n[37:45] Caroline Shaw\\n[40:00] "Cairo: Something New" (The Fader \\u2022 Oct 2012)\\n[41:15] "Tribal Guarachero: Mexican Teens & Aztec History" (The Fader \\u2022 Oct 2010)\\n[42:15] Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Michael Lewis \\u2022 W.W. Norton & Company \\u2022 2004)\\n[44:45] Tigerbeat6\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'