{"id":24300,"date":"2021-01-19T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/a-spotify-playlist-based-on-james-baldwins-vinyl-record-collection#id28865"},"modified":"2021-01-19T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:37:00","slug":"chez-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/chez-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chez Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ikech&uacute;kw&uacute; Onyewuenyi, one of the curators at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, has compiled a 478-track, 32-hour-long Spotify playlist based on James Baldwin&rsquo;s vinyl record collection. <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/606491\/listening-to-the-joy-in-james-baldwins-record-collection\/\">From Hyperallergic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;The playlist is a balm of sorts when one is writing,&rdquo; Onyewuenyi told Hyperallergic. &ldquo;Baldwin referred to his office as a &lsquo;torture chamber.&rsquo; We&rsquo;ve all encountered those moments of writers&rsquo; block, where the process of putting pen to paper feels like bloodletting. That process of torture for Baldwin was negotiated with these records.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed?uri=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A7qoxczp47OmIpFYPZF5imc\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This goes up there with another favorite of ours: the music Haruki Murakami listens to <a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/haruki-murakamis-vinyl-collection-is-on-spotify\">while he writes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/a-spotify-playlist-based-on-james-baldwins-vinyl-record-collection\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Ikech&uacute;kw&uacute; Onyewuenyi, one of the curators at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, has compiled a 478-track, 32-hour-long Spotify playlist based on James Baldwin&rsquo;s vinyl record collection. From Hyperallergic:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}