Oakland in Popular Memory: Interviews with 12 cutting-edge musicians from Oakland and beyond is a collection of Matt Werner’s best interviews from his award-winning radio show on Fresh Air: The Alternative, and various other interviews he’s done with leading artists from Oakland, California and artists who’ve influenced musicians from Oakland.
Topics covered in the interviews include the following: the Occupy Oakland movement, postmodern literary theory, the changing landscape of music publishing, race relations in Oakland, and thoughts on the Hyphy Movement.
Excerpts of his interviews and writing can be read on mattswriting.com, TheRumpus.net, and Oakland Local.
Book is forthcoming in March, 2012.
Edited by Matt Werner.
Featuring interview transcriptions by Korin McGinty, artist portraits by Laura Tomlinson, photography by Joe Sciarrillo, and cover by Dave Smallen.
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