Jeremy Ray Jewell
Falle Nioke has evolved into a kind of cultural ambassador. In the English coastal town of Margate, Kent, he has been praised for his performances of original and traditional compositions on West African instruments.
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Practical handbook, compendium of theory, or history of an American tradition? A little of each… but enough of any?
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“In a crisis we are all Socialists,” goes an old adage. But can that instinct be trusted in an increasingly barbaric world?
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In Rock Bottom Rhapsody, Pokey LaFarge shows us where all America’s prophetic manias must lead: collapse.
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Uplifting tunes for the aspiring curmudgeon you didn’t know you’d already become
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Not only do Lǐ Zǐqī’s videos offer us the satisfaction of seeing material labor, but they also suggest the impossibility — in the modern world — of genuinely recreating the work of the past.
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José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.
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Class pressures are exerting themselves, class fault-lines are emerging, and ancient demons are being released as a result.
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A new biography of the oft-forgotten ‘filibuster’ provides ample facts and little thesis. Is that enough — don’t we need more?
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Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.
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