Benjamin Tausig
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
- I just walked past the Heritage Foundation offices and can confirm they are BLASTING Serge Gainsbourg’s greatest hits with the windows open
- "I fully deny that I ever associated with Jeffrey Epstein; his actions are disgusting," say hundreds of men who associate with Donald Trump.
- Reposted by Benjamin TausigI gotta plug this anthology I made with my NYU colleagues that has a lot of typeset musical examples in MuseScore that have braille notation options: sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...
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- This is a genuinely tough situation. Briefly, new ADA Title II rules (effective this April) require public universities to meet new accessibility requirements for all course materials. Good! But … edtechmagazine.com/higher/artic...
- What’s left of the American press has been effectively nationalized, controlled if not owned by the president. Quite an irony for an ostensible capitalist.
- Reposted by Benjamin TausigMuch as GoFundMe is no replacement for national health care, ten thousand individual newsletters by really excellent writers is no replacement for their institutional employment.
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- Amazon has long since made their comparable book search function unusable, and Google has been making it harder and harder progressively. I kind of knew this day would come. The solution, as always, is libraries. You can get an NYPL membership online and access troves that won't disappear.
- I’ll be on CBC News’s “The National” tonight at 9pm talking about the Grammys and protest music. I must be on some sort of list, or perhaps considered handsome for Canada — I get interviewed a lot about protest music on Canadian television!
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- I love his posts that read like they were written by a lawyer on mushrooms trying to hold it together
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- The correct letter-to-the-editor responding to a recent bad op-ed about how classical music is too unpopular. (by Brian Barone, faculty at Berklee)
- Racist real estate grifting has always been this administration’s destiny
- For hire: Bar Mitzvah band. Must have major label record deal, minimum three platinum albums (not including promo copies), critical acclaim (rock hall or equivalent, rolling stone top ten artists of all time etc). $75/hour.
- Yeah I back the BLUE, Birds Living Under the Expressway
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- If you start MELANIA at the exact same time as Alice Coltrane’s meditative 1971 modal jazz classic “Journey in Satchidananda” they line up perfectly
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