Episode 5: 4th of July Special--This Is My Country

Every Down in the Flood podcast is a celebration of American culture, that bastard, contradictory morass of our basest desires and our highest ideals.

After all, American music sounds the way it does because it expresses and resolves the core tensions at the heart of the American character.

It seems obvious to say that American music wouldn't exist without America itself, but it's worth noting that what is great about American music--it's ability to mix high with low, to absorb immigrant musics, to chase ideals--is directly a result of what is great about the American geopolitical experiment.

So for this episode of Down in the Flood, no more teaching, no more preaching, just the sounds of America itself.

Listen to Down in the Flood 5 (24:44 min, 29 MB)

Comments

[Scott]

Great podcast! I found you through Fred Wilson (avc.blogs.com).

I had to plug your podcast! http://sweaty.blogs.com/sweaty_blog/2005/07/independence_da.html

[Jason Chervokas]

Thanks! Please keep coming back, and spreading the word.