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The Sounds of Struggle
Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.
by
Michael Beyea Reagan
via
Boston Review
on
June 24, 2021
Bob Dylan, Historian
In the six decades of his career, Bob Dylan has mined America’s past for images, characters, and events that speak to the nation’s turbulent present.
by
Sean Wilentz
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 19, 2021
Minor Listening, Major Influence: Revisiting Songs of the Humpback
Recorded accidentally by the Navy during the Cold War, "Songs of the Humpback Whale" became a hit album that changed perceptions about the natural world.
by
Alaina Claire Feldman
via
E-Flux
on
May 1, 2021
'It Shook Me to My Core': 50 Years of Carole King's Tapestry
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece.
by
Dave Simpson
,
Laura Snapes
via
The Guardian
on
February 12, 2021
Dylan, Unencumbered
"How long can it go on?"
by
Katrina Forrester
via
n+1
on
August 3, 2020
Dr. Dre: The Chronic
Revisiting the timeless 1992 debut from Dr. Dre, a historic moment in hip-hop that redefined West Coast rap.
by
Sheldon Pearce
via
Pitchfork
on
December 15, 2019
How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music
The political rumblings beneath his 1969 album, "Hot Buttered Soul."
by
Emily J. Lordi
via
The New Yorker
on
October 1, 2019
Odetta Holmes’ Album One Grain of Sand
Odetta’s artistry was a weapon in the Civil Rights struggle, and was crucial to the era’s politics.
by
Matthew Frye Jacobson
via
Longreads
on
May 22, 2019
Tom Petty: A Cool, Gray Neo-Confederate?
Michael Washburn explains what we can glean from the failure of Tom Petty's 1985 concept album "Southern Accents."
by
Michael Washburn
,
Connor Goodwin
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
May 5, 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
via
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
via
Southern Cultures
on
October 16, 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
via
The New Yorker
on
September 17, 2018
John Wesley Harding at Fifty: WWDD?
Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.
by
Anthony Chaney
via
U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
June 13, 2018
The Monitor: The Punk Album that Predicted Our Politics
How Titus Andronicus drew on Civil War lore to frame contemporary social divides.
by
Alex Sayf Cummings
via
Tropics of Meta
on
November 4, 2017
Sgt. Pepper Came Out 50 Years Ago This Week. The Timing Was As Perfect As the Album.
The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper at the exact moment that the world was ready to take a rock album seriously as art.
by
Jack Hamilton
via
Slate
on
May 24, 2017
Nudie and the Cosmic American
The iconic fusion of country and rock in Gram Parsons' legacy.
by
Elyssa East
via
Oxford American
on
January 7, 2016
Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover
The cover's design, a black-and-white data display, traces its origins to the stars.
by
Jen Christiansen
via
Scientific American
on
February 18, 2015
The Beautiful Sounds of Jimi Hendrix
“Hendrix used a range of technological innovations...to expand the sound of the guitar, to make it ‘talk’ in ways that it never had.”
by
Adam Shatz
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 9, 2014
Mystic Nights
The making of “Blonde on Blonde” in Nashville, Tennessee.
by
Sean Wilentz
via
Oxford American
on
September 20, 2007
Marianne Faithfull’s Life Contained Rock Music’s Secret History
The harrowing and heroic life of Marianne Faithfull, cheater of a thousand deaths and music history’s true avenging angel.
by
Elise Soutar
via
Paste
on
February 4, 2025
Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve never heard.
by
Ethan Iverson
via
The Nation
on
January 14, 2025
Bad Beef
Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.
by
Austin McCoy
via
Public Books
on
January 9, 2025
How Memphis Gave Gospel the Holy Ghost
On the evening of October 7, 1952, gospel promoters booked the Spirit of Memphis for a concert in Memphis’s Mason Temple.
by
Robert F. Darden
via
Oxford American
on
December 10, 2024
The Lines, They Are A-Changin’
Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives.
by
Justin Taylor
via
Bookforum
on
October 29, 2024
Can the 1980s Explain 2024?
The yuppies embodied the winning side of America’s deepening economic divide. Bruce Springsteen spoke for those left behind.
by
Nicholas Lemann
via
Washington Monthly
on
August 25, 2024
How Has Music Changed Since the 1950s?
A statistical analysis of how music composition evolved over time.
by
Daniel Parris
via
Stat Significant
on
July 10, 2024
The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History
He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer.
by
Ted Gioia
via
The Honest Broker
on
June 12, 2024
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
Trapped in Motown’s Closet
The intersection of Black music and queer identity.
by
Mark Anthony Neal
via
Medium
on
June 2, 2024
Taylor Swift’s Homage to Clara Bow
The star of the 1920s silver screen who appears on Taylor Swift’s new album abruptly left Hollywood at the height of her success.
by
Deirdre Clemente
,
Annie Delgado
via
The Conversation
on
April 15, 2024
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