Music journalist Dave Tompkins (Vibe, The Village Voice, Wax Poetics, etc) tracks the vocoder’s evolution from a speech scrambling weapon to a pop music institution in How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip Hop, the Machine Speaks, the debut release from Stop Smiling Books. Tonight the author will [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
April 2, 2010 – 10:07 am
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Online, Drunken Boat, Verse Daily, Salt Hill, Hayden’s Ferry, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an editor for DIAGRAM and poemmemoirstory.
