Music

The Author’s Corner with Catherine V. Bateson

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Catherine V. Bateson is Associate Lecturer of American History and American Studies Chief Examiner at the University of Kent. This interview is based on her new book, Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood (LSU Press, 2022). JF:...

Song of the Day

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After an exhausting summer, I could really use a week or so at the Moonlight Motel (preferably one near the Jersey shore) before the start of the semester. Here is Bruce:...

All the growth in the music market is coming from old songs

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Here is Ted Gioia at The Atlantic: Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered species...

Foo Fighters to Westboro Baptists: “You should be dancing!”

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The Westboro Baptist Church has a website. The URL is godhatesfags.com. The church is known for its pickets and protests against atheists, Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, and anyone who hangs around with atheists, Jews, Muslims, and homosexuals. Today some members of...

Bruce Springsteen awarded Woodie Guthrie Prize

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From the Woody Guthrie Center website: The Woody Guthrie Prize is given annually to an artist who best exemplifies Woody Guthrie’s spirit and work by speaking for the less fortunate through music, film, literature, dance, or other art forms and...

Bruce Springsteen’s embrace of liberalism

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Yesterday we published Tony Norman’s piece on Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., the much acclaimed Obama-Springsteen podcast. Check it out here. Read Norman’s piece alongside Dennis M. Hogan’s essay at The Baffler. In “Runaway American Dreams,” Hogan traces Springsteen’s move...