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Inspiration Plus Experimentation: On the Essential Elements of Artistic Creation

Inspiration Plus Experimentation: On the Essential Elements of Artistic Creation

Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards Consider the Creative Process Behind Music Composition

By Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards | January 22, 2024

All The Songs We Cannot Hear: On the Challenges of a Life Without Sound

All The Songs We Cannot Hear: On the Challenges of a Life Without Sound

Matt Hay Considers the Importance of Music for the Hearing Impaired

By Matt Hay | January 12, 2024

Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews

Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews

In Conversation with Griffin Ondaatje

By Griffin Ondaatje | January 4, 2024

Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

Kelly Marie Coyne on Women Writers, Role Models, and Miss Americana

By Kelly Marie Coyne | December 14, 2023

What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

Tobias Becker Explores Popular Culture’s Continued Revival of the Past

By Tobias Becker | December 13, 2023

Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

Simon Price on the Making and Legacy of One of the Band’s Most Beloved Songs

By Simon Price | December 12, 2023

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How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

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Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill on the Fraught Yet Successful Partnership of Two Industry Titans

By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill | November 30, 2023

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

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On the Odd Case of the Musical Anhedonic

By Michel Faber | November 29, 2023

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Frank Falisi on the New Leonard Bernstein Biopic and Its Director-Star Bradley Cooper

By Frank Falisi | November 22, 2023

The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

It All Began With a Trip to the Bathroom

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Kurt Vonnegut thought Bob Dylan was

Kurt Vonnegut thought Bob Dylan was "the worst poet alive."

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2023

On Art, Music and the Humanist Spirit in the Face of Nazi Atrocities

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From Jeremy Eichler's Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlisted Time's Echo

By Jeremy Eichler | November 6, 2023

The Beatles Adventures in the Red-Light District: On George Harrison's First Time

The Beatles Adventures in the Red-Light District: On George Harrison's First Time

“My first shag was...with Paul and John and Pete Best all watching.”

By Philip Norman | October 26, 2023

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