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The Devil Had Nothing to Do With It
“Robert Johnson was one of the most inventive geniuses of all time,” wrote Bob Dylan. “We still haven’t caught up with him.”
by
Greil Marcus
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 13, 2020
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
Book
Under the Red, White, and Blue
: Patriotism, Disenchantment, and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
Greil Marcus
2020
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Greil Marcus Takes a Deep Dive Into "the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby"
An insightful exploration of the ways America has read ‘the Great American Novel.’
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Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List
The author reflects on his own journey with Dylan, and shares some of his favorite pieces of Dylanology.
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On the Sly
A memoir of the Family Stone.
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Carl Wilson
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Hellhounds on His Trail
Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.
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Michael Hall
via
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on
April 4, 2023
Songs for a South Underwater
After the 1927 Great Flood, Black musicians from the Delta produced an outpour of songs testifying to the destruction. The same is true today.
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Sergio Lopez
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Scalawag
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February 11, 2022
Read More Puritan Poetry
Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.
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Ed Simon
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on
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The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter
A lot has been written about the notorious concert, but so much of the language around it has been passive and exonerating.
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Sasha Frere-Jones
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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
via
The New Yorker
on
September 17, 2018
The Ambivalence of Appropriation
A new book by Eric Lott frames white appropriation of blackness as containing the possibility of greater racial solidarity.
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Noah Hansen
via
Public Books
on
March 29, 2018
