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Hoboken Talks: Jack Silbert interviews ‘outsider-music’ maven Irwin Chusid
November 30, 2021 @ 12:00 am
Join us online Thursday, December 9 at 7 pm when Jack Silbert interviews Irwin Chusid.
A Hoboken resident since 1992, Irwin’s long, illustrious career includes work as a journalist, music historian, radio personality and record producer. His stated mission has been to “find things on the scrapheap of history that I know don’t belong there and salvage them.”
Those “things” have included such previously overlooked but now-celebrated icons as composer/bandleader/electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott, Space Age Pop avatar Esquivel and illustrator/fine artist Jim Flora. Chusid calls himself “a connoisseur of marginalia,” while admitting he’s “a terrible barometer of popular taste.”
He oversees the catalog of the late Afrofuturist artist/composer/bandleader Sun Ra and administers Ra’s music rights on behalf of the artist’s heirs. His journalism has appeared in Mojo, The New York Times, Film Comment, Mix magazine, New York Press, Pulse! and other publications. In 2021 he authored a biography of 19th century baseball legend Joe Start for the Society for American Baseball Research’s BioProject.
The interview will be live-streamed over YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Join the discussion with questions and comments using the chat feature. Use links below to join, or look us up by our handle “HobokenMuseum.”
Past episodes may be replayed any time on YouTube.