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A Note of Momentous Subtlety
William Harris talks with writer Amit Chaudhuri about his latest book, “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music.”...
Music
I’m Going to Build a Heaven of My Own: The Harry Smith B-Sides
This new package is every bit as aurally transcendent and esoterically inscrutable as Smith’s A Sides....
Celebrating L.A. Composers: A Conversation with Hugh Levick
The director of the HEAR NOW music festival in Los Angeles talks about the upcoming 2021 all-virtual event....
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....
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....
American Intimacy: On Gustavus Stadler’s “Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life”
Robert Ryan journeys through Gustavus Stadler’s biography on musician and activist Woody Guthrie....
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....
“This Decadent Western Thing”: Joanna Stingray on the Soviet Underground Rock Scene
The L.A. rocker on her experiences in the underground rock scene in pre-glasnost Russia....
A Plurality of Traditions: Anthony Davis and the Social Justice Opera
The socially driven dream-telling of Anthony Davis’s political operas....
Real Life Rock Top 10: September 2020
LARB presents the September installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Sound Territory: The Genius of Ornette Coleman
Kathelin Gray reviews Maria Golia’s biography of composer and musician Ornette Coleman....
More Than “Tra-La-La”: On Vernon Duke, Igor Stravinsky, and Russian Musical Émigrés
Harlow Robinson turns his ear to “Taking a Chance on Love” by George Harwood Phillips and “In Stravinsky’s Orbit” by Klára Móricz....
The Gigantor of Art
Alex Ross’s new book on Wagner teases out the great conductors many contradictions....
Real Life Rock Top 10: August 2020
LARB presents the August installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....
Upending the Travelogue: A Conversation with Sophy Roberts
Sophy Roberts goes on an untraditional quest....
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