Culture and Politics, Music, Pop Culture
And now, for a message from one of my other obsessions … The biggest news out of the UK today, as far as I’m concerned, was not prime minister David Cameron’s reading of Chapter 30 of Moby-Dick for the “Moby-Dick Big Read” project....
Culture and Politics, Music
I came late to the Bruce Springsteen party. At least, that’s what one of my high school friends told me. He was one of those kids who had painfully “cool” taste in music: he was always talking about new music before everyone else was talking about...
Music, Scholarship and Teaching
7:28 a.m. In my neck of the urban jungle, summertime officially begins — well, right now. I’ve got Gershwin George Gershwin’s melody and DuBose Heyward’s lyrics going through my head as I write this, but in contrast to what they sing in Porgy...