Charlie Bertsch

Steven Rubio / 22 Nov 2021

Music is Underrated

Listening for the Future, by Charlie Bertsch

Charlie Bertsch begins the illuminating introduction to his new book Listening for the Future by posing a question: “What do we ask of popular music?” (...)

Interviews

The Battleground / 23 Oct 2021

Don’t Call it World Beat

The Charlie Bertsch Interview, Part II

Culture is never foreign. The more distant it seems, the more we find that it ultimately looks or sounds familiar. (...)

Interviews

The Battleground / 08 Oct 2021

Music Opens Your Mind

Listening for the Future: The Charlie Bertsch Interview

In the 1960s, they called it consciousness-raising. The idea was that popular music is about social change.(...)

Interviews

The Battleground / 07 Oct 2020

Angry Young Britain

The Slowthai Remix

Why are all the artists minorities? It's a problem typical to countries which built their wealth on the Global South. Eventually, the money stops flowing, and the locals follow you home.(...)

Music is Underrated

Don’t Call it World Beat

Music Opens Your Mind

Angry Young Britain

Europe and Beyond