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Real Life Rock Top 10: March 2021
LARB presents the March installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Music
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie
Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2021
LARB presents the February 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2021
LARB presents the January installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
An illuminating, thought-provoking, refreshingly broad-minded new book about the blues.
This Should Be a Movie: “American Utopia,” the Concert Film, and Extending a Terrific Moment
Sara Black McCulloch considers the nature of the concert film — its scope, its liveness, and its political commitments.
When Loving Lennon Became Difficult
Lucía Benavides on John Lennon, the man and the artist.
Real Life Rock Top 10: December 2020
LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Adrift in Cosmic Quarantine: Randy Newman Turns 77
The great singer-songwriter has spent a lifetime turning bluesy snark into pop gold.
Mountain Music, Women’s Music, and the Roots of Our Obsession with Roots
A pioneer folklorist found some British origins of Appalachian music, but missed so much else.
Real Life Rock Top 10: October 2020
LARB presents the October installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Visions of Cash
Growing up with the man in black.
Stanley Crouch, Radical Pragmatist
The death of Stanley Crouch leaves America’s intellectual culture less interesting, less imaginative, and, above all else, less artful.
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