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The Secret Sound of Stax
The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul.
by
Burkhard Bilger
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The New Yorker
on
May 29, 2023
Amazing Base: A Singer Wed in a D.C. Ballpark, and 19,000 Paid to Attend
Attendees packed D.C.’s Griffith Stadium in 1951 for the wedding spectacular of gospel singer Rosetta Tharpe, who’s now the subject of a show at Ford's Theatre.
by
Terence McArdle
via
Retropolis
on
May 7, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth
On Chuck Berry.
by
Ian Penman
via
Harper's
on
May 4, 2023
A Lost Operatic Masterpiece Written By White Men For An All-Black Cast Was Found And Restored
Can it be produced without controversy?
by
Fredric Dannen
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Billboard
on
March 27, 2023
Grappling With the Overthrow of Reconstruction
Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.
by
Eric Herschthal
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The New Republic
on
March 23, 2023
Fairytale
The Pointer Sisters, the Great Migration, and the soul of country.
by
Carina del Valle Schorske
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Oxford American
on
December 13, 2022
Jerry Lee Lewis Was an SOB Right to the End
Jerry Lee Lewis was known as the Killer, and it wasn’t a casual sobriquet.
by
Bill Wyman
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Vulture
on
October 28, 2022
I've Got Those Old Talking-Blues Blues Again
The Folkies and WWII, Part Two.
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
October 13, 2022
How CCR, “The Boy Scouts of Rock and Roll,” Took California and the Country by Storm
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s unique blend of traditional and progressive sensibilities.
by
John Lingan
via
Literary Hub
on
August 9, 2022
The Gospel According to Mavis Staples
A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy.
by
David Remnick
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The New Yorker
on
June 24, 2022
Manhattan in East St. Louis
The Club Manhattan could hold about 250 people. They did not know it at the time, but they were the earliest witnesses to the rise of the Queen of Rock & Roll.
by
Maureen Mahon
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Oxford American
on
December 7, 2021
‘It Didn’t Adhere to Any of the Rules’: The Fascinating History of Free Jazz
In the documentary "Fire Music," the hostile reaction that met the unusual genre soon turns into deep appreciation and a lasting influence.
by
Jim Farber
via
The Guardian
on
September 7, 2021
The Making of Appalachian Mississippi
“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”
by
Justin Randolph
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Southern Cultures
on
May 14, 2021
How Should We Understand the Shocking Use of Stereotypes in the Work of Black Artists?
It's about the satirical tradition of 'going there.'
by
Richard J. Powell
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Artnet News
on
February 16, 2021
Citizen DJ 2020 Retrospective
The long history of sampling in music, and a new tool that lets artists sample without fear of copyright claims.
by
Brian Foo
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Citizen DJ
on
December 31, 2020
A Lover’s Blues: The Unforgettable Voice of Margie Hendrix
Remembering the woman who outsang Ray Charles.
by
Tarisai Ngangura
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Longreads
on
September 2, 2020
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.
by
Casey Rae
via
Longreads
on
June 11, 2019
A Short History of Country Music’s Multicultural Mishmash
Or everything that came before Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus walked down that “Old Town Road.”
by
David Hajdu
via
The Nation
on
June 7, 2019
Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means
The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.
by
John Jeremiah Sullivan
via
The New Yorker
on
May 13, 2019
Vessel of Antiquity
Influence, invention, and the legacy of Leon Redbone.
by
Megan Pugh
via
Oxford American
on
March 19, 2019
Sears’s ‘Radical’ Past
How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow.
by
Antonia Noori Farzan
via
Washington Post
on
October 16, 2018
Down in the Hole: Outlaw Country and Outlaw Culture
Country music has often stood, as it were, with one foot in and one foot out of the cave.
by
Max Fraser
via
Southern Cultures
on
October 16, 2018
How Country Music Went Conservative
Country music is assumed to be the soundtrack of the Republican Party. But it wasn't always that way.
by
On The Media
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WNYC
on
October 6, 2017
The Brotherhood of Rock
The story of how The Band, in Robbie Robertson's words, "acted out an ideal of democracy and equality."
by
Greil Marcus
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 2, 2017
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Islam and the U.S.
What does it mean to be Muslim in America? And how has the practice of Islam in the U.S. changed over time?
via
BackStory
on
December 18, 2015
Seeing Ornette Coleman
Coleman’s approach to improvisation shook twentieth-century jazz. It was a revolutionary idea that sounded like a folk song.
by
Taylor Ho Bynum
via
The New Yorker
on
June 12, 2015
That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town
The story of Vinegar Hill, a historically African American neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia.
via
Field Studio
on
May 9, 2011
Woody Guthrie: Folk Hero
Guthrie challenged the commercial aesthetic of the pre-rock era through a performance style that was almost combatively anti-musical.
by
David Hajdu
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The New Yorker
on
March 21, 2004
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