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O politics where art thou? - The First Words … - politics and popular music - Editorial
Over the years, I've fielded calls from a number of newspaper reporters querying one aspect of folk music (or the "folk revival") or another. A recurrent ......(Continue Reading) Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia/Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955
Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds. Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. x, 338 pp. Illustrations....(Continue Reading)La's Top 100 - songs
FROM THE JUKEBOX AT THE END OF TIME, SONGS THAT MADE THIS TOWN EVERY CITY HAS A SOUNDTRACK, BUT SOMETIMES LOS ANGELES SEEMS like a soundtrack that ......(Continue Reading)The Folk Process: lyrics sent by our readers: new words to old tunes or snatches of a good song—different viewpoints, too
With a national election drawing near, this column concentrates on conditions and personalities in the present government and urges one and all not only to vote, but to get friends, relations, neig...(Continue Reading)Sacred words, profane music? The Free Monks as a musical phenomenon in contemporary Greek Orthodoxy
The Free Monks (Eleftheroi) are a Greek Orthodox rock band of black-robed monks. Being the first of its kind in Greece, the group has produced popular ......(Continue Reading)
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