Are you a local Midwestern musician, artist or writer who would like to be interviewed for Black Oak Presents?

E-mail us at publisher@blackoakmedia.org or write to us at the PO Box below.  Tell us a little about yourself, what town/city you're from, how long you've been doing what you do best, and why you think your art is important.  We would love to hear from you, especially if you are struggling to get published or sign a record deal, or if you're going freelance.  Corporate credentials do not impress us.

Who are we?

Black Oak Media is the spearhead of a direct assault on the innocuous, monolithic Britney Spears/consumer culture, and represents an atavism of a primordial humanism that unapologetically embraces all ranges of human emotion and experience. We believe that folk culture must replace "popular culture," since popular culture is no longer produced by the common people but produced for us―brightly packaged and neatly trimmed―by elites who live over a thousand miles away from their constituents.

We are beyond Left and Right.  We stand against Nihilism and the corruption, polution, decadence, and fragility of the modern world.  We stand for the farmers, artisans, small businesses, artists, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and hard working men and women that once made this country great.

Life isn't an airbrushed model on a glossy magazine cover.  Los Angeles and New York City do not represent our culture.  Here at Black Oak Media, we believe that the people who live in "Middle America" have something to contribute.  Our culture is not something that is marketed to the public from distant boardrooms, it is produced by the blood, sweat, and tears of the people living on the land. It is the artistic expression of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Culture is created and passed down from our ancestors, to and from us, to our children. It is something meaningful that does not ride waves of trends or conform to market interests.

Furthermore, we believe that consumer-capitalism is not only unsustainable, but also destructive of the community and the individual. That system must be replaced by a locally-based, free-market system.

To contact Black Oak Media, please e-mail the publisher at

publisher@blackoakmedia.org

For submission guidelines, please do not write or e-mail, simply click on the "Guidelines" menu button.

"You ought to learn to laugh, my young friends, if you are hell-bent on remaining pessimists."

Friedrich

Nietzsche

"The great blessings of man-kind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."

- Seneca