{"id":2801,"date":"2011-04-29T06:32:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2011-04-29T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T11:40:22","slug":"coffee-conversation-rock-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2011\/04\/29\/coffee-conversation-rock-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee &amp; Conversation: Sway Me Smooth, Sway Me Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-29-at-6.31.43-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2802\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-29 at 6.31.43 AM\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-29-at-6.31.43-AM-500x300.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2011-04-29 at 6.31.43 AM\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-29-at-6.31.43-AM-500x300.png 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-29-at-6.31.43-AM-1024x613.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-29-at-6.31.43-AM.png 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word is Matias Viegener said, &#8220;The mix tape is a form of American folk art: predigested cultural artifacts combined with homespun technology and magic marker turn the mix tape into a message in a bottle. I am no mere consumer of pop culture, it says, but also a producer of it. Mix tapes mark the moment of consumer culture in which listeners attained control over what they heard, in what order and at what cost. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Love it. I\u2019m a believer.<\/p>\n<p>Are playlists the on-the-go, easier-to-craft mix tapes?<\/p>\n<p>In this last Coffee and Conversation of the semester, let\u2019s give our music a chance to speak \u2013 playlists and mix tapes. I\u2019ll bring the coffee and might upscale the eats. Let\u2019s have a shindig. You be the DJ. Bring a playlist on a digital music player and we\u2019ll give you a little time to tell your story.<\/p>\n<p>See you in the <a title=\"Boston University Howard Thurman Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Thurman Center<\/a> \u2013 this afternoon 3-5 p.m. (Leave your cassettes at home with your parents.)<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word is Matias Viegener said, &#8220;The mix tape is a form of American folk art: predigested cultural artifacts combined with homespun technology and magic marker turn the mix tape into a message in a bottle. I am no mere consumer of pop culture, it says, but also a producer of it. Mix tapes mark the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}