Mr. Coker’s title suggests action. Or a photograph. Improvising. Here are two definitions.1 The first is to make something with…
Bookshelf: For Guitar Players Only Tommy Tedesco
The cover photo beckons like some mysterious relative who lived an entirely different life than anyone else in the family.…
“No last names.”
In 1981 I played rhythm guitar in a band called Rhythm Ace. I was thirty-one. The other guys in the…
Where have all the flowers gone?
In 1969 when I was a freshman in college I used to visit my grandmother who lived just outside the…
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Bookshelf:: “The Poetry of Soul” edited by A.X.Nicholas
The Poetry of Soul edited by A.X. NicholasBantam Books 1971 A collection of songs chosen by Mr. Nicholas to demonstrate…
memories from a bowl of soup
When my wife and I were living in Jamaica Plain in the early 1980’s there was a family on our…
The authority of the crowd : Arlo Guthrie :: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Between my junior and senior year in high school I went with some friends to the Newport Folk Festival. According…
Wesleyan Music Studies: Year 1 1989-90 :: :: :: Zorn, Lucier, Braxton
I attended Wesleyan University 1989-91. I was enrolled in the Music MA program, not under ethnomusicology, but rather a loosely…
“why the Buddha kept meditating”
Below, looking through the lens of exploring the present use of the term anti-racist, is an interpretation of a passage…
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