From African American Review, a special issue on theorizing the post-soul aesthetic, including Mario David McKnight (Florida): Afrofuturism and Post-Soul Possibility in Black Popular Music. From Music & Politics, “I compose the Party Rally”: An article on the role of music in Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will". A review of Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory by Roy Blount Jr. From HNN, Harold Holzer on why President-Elect Obama should follow the example of President-Elect Lincoln; an article on the suburban Sunbelt and the making and unmaking of the conservative Republican majority; and did Obama make the South irrelevant? James C. Cobb investigates. Change: Ron Suskind on how political eras end and begin; and the other winner: Howard Dean unleashed the new progressives — can Barack Obama deal with them? Maybe the meltdown’s a guy thing: A study finds raging male hormones pumping up the bull-bear cycle. A review of Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction by Susan Cheever. Enough with the sweet talk: Forget unfair negative reviews — the real problem is the unfair positive ones. Are cyberattacks warfare? It’s a lot more complicated than you think.
