This episode, it’s 2 Zacks United 4 Prince Conference (sorry) as your usual host, Zach Hoskins, talks to Zack Stiegler, Associate Professor in Communications Media Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. As in my last episode with Jane Clare Jones, we’re here to talk about Zack’s time at the University of Salford’s interdisciplinary Prince conference back in May; but we also touch upon a lot of other interesting subjects, including Prince’s ever-shifting attitudes toward the Internet, his racial consciousness, and the subtle (/sometimes not-so-subtle) current of Afrofuturism in his work.
00:00:00 “The War” (New Power Generation single, 1998)
00:02:26 My Previous Podcast with Jane Clare Jones
00:05:44 If You Want to Hear How Zach Got Into Prince, Listen to This
00:07:58 “My Computer” (from Emancipation, 1996)
00:14:58 “Face Down” (from Emancipation)
00:22:01 “Uh Huh” (1991 Recording)
00:25:00 “The War”
00:27:26 Zaheer Ali’s Paper, “Slave 2 the System: Prince & the Black Radical Tradition”
00:39:07 Hopefully You Can Still Listen to “The War” on YouTube
00:39:43 “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron (from Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
00:40:55 James Byrd’s 1998 Lynching Murder Partly Inspired “The War”
00:40:58 “The War”
00:48:44 One of Prince’s Earlier Excursions into Science Fiction
00:49:07 Allen Beaulieu’s Softcore Porn Blade Runner Aesthetic, circa 1982
00:49:50 “The War”
00:52:46 The Artist’s Acceptance Speech for the Yahoo Internet Life Award, 1999
00:55:09 The Message on the Back Cover of “The War” Promo CDs
00:57:03 “The War”
00:58:55 Anil Dash on Prince’s “Secret Life as a Computer Nerd”
01:03:06 “A Warning 2 Music Lovers”: The Artist on Napster, 2001
01:09:36 Follow Zack (Stiegler) on Twitter
01:09:44 “Emale” (from Emancipation)
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