{"id":2293,"date":"2026-09-23T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:47:51","slug":"how-quickly-it-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2026\/09\/23\/how-quickly-it-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"How quickly it fades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am teaching <em>Philosophy and Cover Songs<\/em> as a first-year seminar this semester, and I worry that I don&#8217;t have any contemporary examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s weird, because I had lots of contemporary examples when I taught <em>Philosophy and Popular Music<\/em> a year and a half ago. New covers of Chappell Roan&#8217;s &#8220;Good Luck Babe&#8221; (itself just a year old) provided vivid examples of the way gender and meaning interact. Kendrick Lamar played the Superbowl halftime show, providing a vivid example of beefs in hip-hop. Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s <em>Cowboy Carter<\/em> won the Grammy for best Country album, providing a great hook for thinking about genre and authenticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now those are the recent past rather than <em>now<\/em>, and I don&#8217;t have anything current to replace them. It might not matter, since I had a student drop by office hours wanting to talk about 1970s classic rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it&#8217;s strange to lose the sense of currency so quickly. That doesn&#8217;t happen when I teach <em>17th and 18th Century Philosophy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am teaching Philosophy and Cover Songs as a first-year seminar this semester, and I worry that I don&#8217;t have any contemporary examples. It&#8217;s weird, because I had lots of contemporary examples when I taught Philosophy and Popular Music a year and a half ago. New covers of Chappell Roan&#8217;s &#8220;Good Luck Babe&#8221; (itself just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2026\/09\/23\/how-quickly-it-fades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How quickly it fades&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[16,13],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-music","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-AZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}