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Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath June 24, 2020November 25, 2022

Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.

Posted inNonfiction

Those Limits Were Not Hindrances: An Interview with Megan Pugh

by Aaron Gilbreath June 24, 2019February 24, 2023

How a writer worked hard to understand one of American music’s most mysterious performers while protecting his past, and art.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Odetta Holmes’ Album One Grain of Sand

by Longreads May 22, 2019October 19, 2022

The singular singer released her groundbreaking album in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington, and used her art and appearance as weapons in the Civil Rights struggle.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

A History of American Protest Music: Come By Here

by Tom Maxwell January 10, 2019October 19, 2022

How cultural appropriation and erasure turned an African American spiritual into a white campfire sing-along.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

The Dead End on My Record Shelf

by Longreads September 14, 2018October 19, 2022

I believed that there was no music existing in the world with an unbroken connection to its original context. I was wrong.

Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Story

A History of American Protest Music: Which Side Are You On?

by Tom Maxwell August 29, 2018October 19, 2022

Just as we were in the 1930s and ’60s, America is suffering a moral crisis. We have to decide which side we are on: hate and exclusion, or justice, inclusion, and democracy?

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction

How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music

by Longreads October 25, 2017February 22, 2023

On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music

by Longreads October 25, 2017February 22, 2023

On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.

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