Tag: Music

Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis.

The novel House of Earth shows Woody Guthrie in a different light, exiled from the Dust Bowl but dreaming of it still.

Michael Zapruder discusses converting poetry into music.

In the 1930s and ’40s, American dance was about working men and women, not dying swans.

Robin D.G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original restores the pianist and composer to the history he lived through.

Milton Babbitt and John Cage. 

What the composer and Kant had in common.

A review of two books on Coltrane.

Invitations to danger and salvation that makes the blues the blues.

Rap poetry is full of cutting-edge linguistic innovations.

The world of piano competition.

Despite being a prolific composer, Ernst Krenek is one of the least understood musical figures of the twentieth century.