There's too hasty a rush to reach for pop-academic cant – intersections, microaggressions, white supremacy.
For Staples, he's neither pop star, academic or thug.
We have this simplistic way of outlining things — folk culture, pop culture, academic culture — but they overlap in so many ways".
We have this simplistic way of outlining things folk culture, pop culture, academic culture but they overlap in so many ways".
The pop music academic Simon Frith, who has chaired the prize since it began in 1992, said it was a list that celebrated artists from every stage of their careers who were hard to categorise.
By the time he agreed to move to the University of Toronto he was deemed an "academic pop star".
In addition to popping up on academic reading lists, their authoritative but accessible, unfussy style means they are just as likely to pop up in an esteemed architect's Cappellini cabinet as on a first-time buyer's Billy bookcase.
We had theorized that people's theories would be evenly distributed among pop culture, high academics, and pet peeves we call that the Three-In-One Oil Effect—and we werightght.
Those detained include academics, pop stars, comedians and poets: individuals who – like the bulldozed mosques – are symbols of Uighur identity and pride.
About 20,000 people have signed the petition, along with Iranians including film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, pop singer Googoosh, academics Hamid Dabashi and Azar Nafisi, and previously imprisoned journalists Roxana Saberi and Maziar Bahari.
We had theorized that people's theories would be evenly distributed among pop culture, high academics, and pet peeves — we call that the Three-In-One Oil Effect — and wereerightght.
