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A Love Letter to an iPod Mini
Late last year I wrote a column about the Macintosh and its near brush with virus trouble. I received hundreds of e-mails telling me I was nuts (and worse)....(Continue Reading) Pop artists go commercial; advertisers are turning to pop tunes that will click in consumers' minds, while artists have learned that exposure and money
Watching TV commercials these days is like flipping around the radio dial. Pop songs from every era are filling up the commercial breaks. Popular groups ......(Continue Reading)Here's to a heartfelt goodbye - Sisterspeak
IT'S a funny thing about goodbyes. The modern songwriter says there s no good in goodbye, while the Southern folklorist bids us be wary of them. As the saying goes, "Every shut eye ain't sleep and...(Continue Reading)Books received
Bender, Mark. Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition. Champaign, IL: Illinois University Press, 2003. xii + 259 pp. $44.95 (hbk). ISBN ......(Continue Reading)Carly Simon: romance, pain, anticipation—if it's a human impulse, then Carly Simon has sung about it. Now the singer who has provided the soundtrack
Along with Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Laura Nyro, Carly Simon was at the fore of a generation of female singer-songwriters who not only bared their ......(Continue Reading)
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