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Seeing Ourselves in Joni Mitchell
Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell looks at how a generation of listeners came to identify with the folk singer’s intimate songs.
by
David Hajdu
via
The Nation
on
June 11, 2024
The Parsonage
An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village has been central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.
by
David Hajdu
via
Places Journal
on
April 1, 2023
What the Oscars Represent: Meritocracy Without Merit
How the institution’s reactionary origins still leak into today’s film culture.
by
David Hajdu
via
The Nation
on
March 8, 2023
What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented
Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.
by
David Hajdu
via
The Nation
on
July 29, 2021
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
How Christianity Created Rock ’n’ Roll
Rock music owes much of its claim to coolness to the Christian faith.
by
David Hajdu
via
Public Books
on
June 21, 2018
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
via
The New Yorker
on
March 21, 2004
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