Michael Mario Albrecht

Mar 2

Michael Mario’s February Media Journal

Books Leve, Ariel & Robin Morgan. 1963: The Year of the Revolution–How Youth Changed the World With Music, Art, and Fashion. It Books, 2013. Killen, Andreas. 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America. Bloomsbury Press, 2006. Records Turn, Turn, Turn. New Rays From an Old Sun. …

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Feb 15

Michael Mario January Media Journal

Books Burgis, Ben. Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the American Left. Zero Books, 2021. Sienkiewicz, Nick & Nick Marx. That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them. University of California Press, 2022. Abdurraqib, Hanif. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us. …

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Jan 2

Michael Mario December Media Journal

Books Lehman, Peter Lehman. Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body. Temple University Press, 1993. Schnabel, Micah. Hello, My Name is Henry. White Gorilla Press, 2018. Peck, Reece. Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Nicolay, Franz. The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring…

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Dec 1, 2022

November Media Journal

Books Savage, Luke. The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History. OR Books, 2022. Baraka, Amiri. Blues People: Negro Music in White America. Harper Perennial, 1999. Records Burnett, T Bone. The Invisible Light: Spells. Verve Forecast Records, 2022.* FIrst-Aid Kit. Palomino. Columbia Records, 2022.* Carlile, Brandi. In…

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Nov 5, 2022

Michael Mario’s October Media Journal

Books Hyden, Steven. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation. Hachette Books, 2022. Barry, Dave. Dave Barry’s Guide to Guys. Ballantine Books, 1996. Records The Vandoliers. The Vandoliers. Amerikinda Records, 2022.* Goodman, S.G. Teeth Marks. Universal Music Group, 2022.* Idol, Billy. The Cage. BFI Records, 2022.* Lane, Nikki. Denim…

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Oct 2, 2022

Michael Mario’s September Media Journal

Books Korman, Gordon. Born To Rock. Little, Brown Books, 2017. Johnson, Paul Elliott. I, The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States. University of Alabama Press, 2022. Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent. Flatiron Books, 2022. Records Sylvan Esso. No Rules Sandy. Loma…

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Sep 1, 2022

Michael Mario’s August Media Journal

Books Wood, Tony. Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War. Verso Books, 2018. Hayden, Steven. Your Favorite Band is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life. Back Bay Books, 2016. Horwitz, Robert B. America’s Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism From Goldwater to…

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Aug 1, 2022

Michael Mario’s July Media Journal

Books Décharné, Max. Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang. Pegasus Books, 2017. Lummis, C. Douglas. Radical Democracy. Cornell University Press, 1996. Records Muna. Muna. Saddest Factory Records, 2022.* Nelson, Willie. A Beautiful Time. Sony Music, 2022.* Journey. Freedom. BMG Music, 2022.* Dawes. Misadventures of a Doomscroller. HUB Records, 2022.* She…

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Jul 1, 2022

Michael Mario’s June Media Journal

Books Guffey, Elizabeth E. Retro: The Culture of Revival. Reaktion Books, 2006. Hornby, Nick. Fever Pitch. Riverhead Books, 1992. Kennedy, Joe. Games Without Frontiers. Repeater Books, 2016. Puntain, Dick & David Robins. Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude. Reaktion Books, 2000. Hatherley, Owen. The Ministry of Nostalgia. Verso Books, 2016. Levitin…

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Jun 2, 2022

Michael Mario’s May Media Journal

Books Fonseca, Isabel. Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey. Vintage Books, 1995. Rivelli, Marco. The New Populism: Democracy Stares Into the Abyss. Verso Books, 2019. McNally, Karen, ed. American Television During a Television Presidency. Wayne State University Press, 2022. Rosenthal, Lawrence. Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism…

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