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Heavy Metal, Year One: The Inside Story of Black Sabbath's Groundbreaking Debut
A look back on the album that kick-started a worldwide movement, half a century since Ozzy Osbourne first bellowed, “What is this that stands before me?”
by
Kory Grow
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Rolling Stone
on
February 11, 2020
Why are Pop Songs Getting Sadder Than They Used to Be?
The most popular songs today are sadder than they were 50 years ago: can cultural evolution explain this negative turn?
by
Alberto Acerbi
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Charlotte Brand
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Aeon
on
February 4, 2020
Afloat with Static
Jenny Turner reviews "Face It" by Debbie Harry.
by
Jenny Turner
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London Review of Books
on
December 14, 2019
What Happened to Rock and Roll After Altamont?
On the Grateful Dead's “New Speedway Boogie,” and the true end of the Sixties.
by
Buzz Poole
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Literary Hub
on
December 6, 2019
The Songs of Canceled Men
A new book asks how music criticism can reckon with the lives of immoral artists.
by
Joe Bucciero
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The Nation
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November 19, 2019
Drawn and Recorded: Blind Willie in Space
Dark was the night, cold was the ground, and brilliant is that song drifting through space.
by
Drew Christie
,
Bill Flanagan
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Aeon
on
October 31, 2019
How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music
The political rumblings beneath his 1969 album, "Hot Buttered Soul."
by
Emily J. Lordi
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The New Yorker
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October 1, 2019
A Lifetime Of Labor: Maybelle Carter At Work
Maybelle Carter witnessed the dawn of the recording era and helped create country music as one of the genre's biggest acts.
by
Jessica Wilkerson
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NPR
on
August 14, 2019
An Ives Fourth
Nostalgia or nightmare?
by
Sudip Bose
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The American Scholar
on
July 4, 2019
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
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Longreads
on
June 11, 2019
‘Old Town Road’ and the History of Black Cowboys in America
A songwriter-historian weighs in on the controversy over Lil Nas X’s country-trap hit.
by
Dom Flemons
,
Jonathan Bernstein
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Rolling Stone
on
April 5, 2019
Oklahoma Was Never Really O.K.
A new production exposes the darkness that’s always been at the heart of the musical — and the American experiment.
by
Frank Rich
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Vulture
on
April 2, 2019
Punjabi Convoy
A history of trucking in America, told through the music that has kept truckers company on the lonely road.
by
Nick Murray
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Popula
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March 25, 2019
The Most Important Album of 1968 Wasn’t The White Album. It Was Beggars Banquet.
It saved the Rolling Stones, altered the trajectory of music history, and turns 50 this week.
by
Jack Hamilton
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Slate
on
December 6, 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
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Southern Cultures
on
October 16, 2018
The Vietnam War: A History in Song
The ‘First Television War’ was also documented in over 5,000 songs.
by
Justin Brummer
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History Today
on
September 25, 2018
The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock
The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.
by
Kelefa Sanneh
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The New Yorker
on
September 17, 2018
Rosie the Riveter Isn’t Who You Think She Is
While the female factory worker is a pop icon now, the “We Can Do It!” poster was unknown to the American public in the 1940s.
by
Erick Trickey
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Retropolis
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September 3, 2018
The Conspiracist Manual That Influenced a Generation of Rappers
How "Behold a Pale Horse" found its way to the Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, Busta Rhymes, Tupac Shakur, NAS, and more.
by
Mark Jacobson
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Vulture
on
August 22, 2018
Aretha Franklin Was the Defining Voice of the 20th Century
No one else sang as well as her, and no other singer changed popular music as much as her.
by
Jack Hamilton
via
Slate
on
August 16, 2018
John Wesley Harding at Fifty: WWDD?
Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.
by
Anthony Chaney
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
June 13, 2018
The Historical Roots of Blues Music
The blues is not "slave music," but the music of freed African Americans.
by
Lamont Pearley Sr.
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Black Perspectives
on
May 9, 2018
Agriculture Wars
On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by
Nick Murray
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Viewpoint Magazine
on
March 12, 2018
‘The Snake’: How Trump Appropriated a Radical Black Singer’s Lyrics
A former communist from Chicago wrote the song in the 1960s, decades before Trump turned it into an anti-immigrant fable.
by
Eli Rosenberg
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Washington Post
on
February 24, 2018
Mourning John Perry Barlow, Bard of the Internet
Barlow was a poet, a cowboy, a philosopher, and the internet's staunchest ally.
by
Steven Levy
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Wired
on
February 7, 2018
Wouldn’t You Love to Love Her?
A biography of Stevie Nicks does little to dispel the magic.
by
Emily Gould
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Bookforum
on
January 3, 2018
The Music I Love Is a Racial Minefield
How I learned to fiddle my way through America's deeply troubling history.
by
Michael Mechanic
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Mother Jones
on
December 21, 2017
No One Writes Great Christmas Songs Anymore
But maybe those midcentury classics weren't really Christmas songs at all.
by
Addison Del Mastro
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The American Conservative
on
December 21, 2017
Here's What Benjamin Franklin Scholars Think About Lin-Manuel Miranda's Ode to the Inventor
Fact-checking the lyrics of Miranda's new song.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
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TIME
on
December 15, 2017
The Dark and Divisive History of America’s Thanksgiving Hymn
How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday's spirit of unity and a country's legacy of exclusion.
by
Neil J. Young
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The Atlantic
on
November 23, 2017
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