{"id":156,"date":"2006-09-15T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/09\/15\/mediocre-sleep-inducing-homogenized-pablum-v-background-music-for-the-slavery-of-daily-drudgery\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T00:09:00","slug":"mediocre-sleep-inducing-homogenized-pablum-v-background-music-for-the-slavery-of-daily-drudgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/09\/15\/mediocre-sleep-inducing-homogenized-pablum-v-background-music-for-the-slavery-of-daily-drudgery\/","title":{"rendered":"mediocre sleep-inducing homogenized pablum v. background music for the slavery of daily drudgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcu.edu\/law\/facultyandadministration\/faculty_long.php\">alex long<\/a> has written a fun working paper on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/law.bepress.com\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=7448&amp;context=expresso\">uses and misuses of popular music lyrics in legal writing<\/a>. <\/em>as is my custom, i skipped immediately to the data.<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/1600\/band2.0.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/400\/band2.0.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> i worked up a li&#8217;l spreadsheet with the most cited artists in both law journals and legal opinions.<\/p>\n<p>the list is a familiar but disappointing catalog of self-consciously respectable boomer-friendly aging or dead white males: dylan, beatles, springsteen, simon, <em>et alia<\/em>. professor long himself cites the stooges&#8217; <em>raw power<\/em>, but this stuff hasn&#8217;t made it into legal scholarship. he even drops a li&#8217;l lester on us in the footnotes:<\/p>\n<p>[I]t\u2019s harder than hangnails to \u2026 even have a little moronic fun these days without<br \/>some codifying crypto-academic \u2026 swooping down to rape your stance and leave you shivering fish-naked in the cultural welfare line. So I wouldn\u2019t blame you for hating me for this article at all.<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t hate you, dude. in fact, i&#8217;ve gotta love a lawprof who can go <em>deep <\/em>on lester bangs. still, this leaves me with two questions:<\/p>\n<p>first, would the sociology list look <em>any<\/em> edgier? i doubt it. nirvana, rage, james brown, or marvin gaye might pop up &#8212; and i know i&#8217;ve seen <em>gang of four <\/em>in more than one context &#8212; but i&#8217;d wager the soc list would pretty much replicate the lawlist. personally, i tried to cite social distortion<em> <\/em>in <em>contexts<\/em> once (&#8220;a broken nose, a broken heart, an empty bottle of gin&#8221; in a review of laub and sampson), but it was excised before it hit the newstands. so it goes.<\/p>\n<p>second, i&#8217;ve always wanted to drop the pistols&#8217; <em>pretty vacant <\/em>into a title but never quite found the proper setting. which great song titles are <em>just sitting there, <\/em>crying out for a hunk-a hunk-a burnin&#8217; sociological research?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alex long has written a fun working paper on uses and misuses of popular music lyrics in legal writing. as is my custom, i skipped immediately to the data. i worked up a li&#8217;l spreadsheet with the most cited artists in both law journals and legal opinions. the list is a familiar but disappointing catalog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}