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4 days ago · Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspects of American life, including books, films, language ...
5 days ago · At the beginning of the 21st century, and seen from a worldwide perspective, it is the American popular music that had its origins among African Americans at the end of the 19th century that, in all its many forms—ragtime, jazz, swing, jazz-influenced popular song, blues, rock and roll and its art legacy as rock and later hip-hop—has become ...
5 days ago · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book...
1 day ago · The shift from subtlety to directness in lyrics marked a significant evolution in Black music. Hip-Hop: A voice for the voiceless Emerging in the late 20th century, hip-hop became a powerful ...
5 days ago · Past, present and future. The past seemed to touch on absent friends who had become insulated from reality. The present concentrated on our collective belief that it was just full of the same old mistakes, but with newer gadgets. The future honed in on our favourite sci-fi.
3 days ago · Even so, this dispatch from more than 30 years ago feels eerily prescient in its depiction of men seeking connection in a highly impractical and often life-threatening way. Or, to put it another way, M. John Harrison might well have written the great novel of 21st-century male loneliness—he just did so in the waning years of the 20th.
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3 days ago · A new exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum takes a look back at the life of renowned musician Woody Guthrie through a collection of music lyrics, instruments, photographs, and art from his...