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Irwin Chusid (born April 22, 1951, Newark, New Jersey) is a journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described "landmark preservationist." His stated mission〔(Gardner, Lee, "The Outsiders: Irwin Chusid Reveals What's So Good About Playing Badly," ''Baltimore City Paper'', February 7, 2001 )〕 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, illustrator/fine artist Jim Flora,〔(Heller, Steven, "Saving Jim Flora's Private Stash: An Interview with Irwin Chusid," ) American Institute of Graphic Arts, November 16, 2005〕 various outsider musicians (including William "Shooby" Taylor, a.k.a. "The Human Horn"),〔(Chusid, Irwin, "Shooby Taylor: Meetings With the Legendary Scatman" )〕 and The Langley Schools Music Project.〔(Chusid, Irwin, "The Discovery of the Langley Recordings" )〕 Chusid calls himself "a connoisseur of marginalia," while admitting he's "a terrible barometer of popular taste."〔(Thompson, Spenser, "Finding Rare Music: An Interview with Irwin Chusid of WFMU," ) BobThompsonMusic.com, November 30, 2015〕 His journalism has appeared in ''Mojo'', ''The New York Times'', ''Film Comment'', ''Mix'' magazine, ''New York Press'', ''Pulse!'' and other publications. He has lived in Hoboken, New Jersey since 1992.〔Burr, Ty. ("The worst of Irwin Chusid; Intriguing or just awful? A champion of 'outsider music' lets it speak for itself" ), ''The Boston Globe'', November 17, 2003. Accessed February 6, 2013. "The chief standard-bearer of outsider music, and the man who coined the term in a 1996 article, is Irwin Chusid, a Hoboken, N.J.-based record producer, radio personality, and music historian."〕 He describes his political views as "leaning libertarian."〔Thompson, ''ibid.''〕 ==Radio== Since 1975 Chusid has been a DJ on free-form radio station WFMU, where he continues to host an unpredictable and idiosyncratic weekly program whose content he calls "genre-surfing tokenism".〔(Irwin Chusid program archives at WFMU.org )〕 Prior to that, he worked briefly at WPKN radio from 1969-1971 while an undergrad at the University of Bridgeport (which he left after two years); in 1977, while living in New Orleans, he hosted a weekly program on WTUL. In 1988, he served as a comedy writer for author/humorist Tom Bodett's syndicated radio series, ''The End of the Road''. In the late 1970s, Chusid was one of the first DJs to regularly air recordings of Jandek, The Shaggs, Lucia Pamela, and R. Stevie Moore on the radio. In the early 1980s he programmed a weekly segment entitled ''The Atrocious Music Hour'', which featured recordings from such non-musical celebrities as William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.〔(Oliveiri, Chad, Interview with Irwin Chusid ), ''Rochester City Paper'', February 16, 2005〕 This subgenre was eventually chronicled by Rhino Records on their Golden Throats series of albums, for which Chusid authored liner notes. These compilations contributed to Shatner's revived celebrity, albeit with overtones of self-parody. Between 1997 and 2002 Chusid was the co-host (with Michelle Boulé) of the ''Incorrect Music Hour'' on WFMU.〔(Incorrect Music program archives ) at WFMU.org〕 From 2005 to 2007 he programmed (72 hours ) of vintage Calypso, Soca and Mento on a feature entitled ''Muriel's Treasure''.〔(Muriel's Treasure program archives ) at WFMU.org〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irwin Chusid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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