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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In Rock Bottom Rhapsody, Pokey LaFarge shows us where all America’s prophetic manias must lead: collapse.
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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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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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This Nashvillian has a simple message for America: “You best pull yourself together, or you might never be the same.”
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Music Review: The Harry Smith B-Sides: Precursor to The Harry Smith C(ensored)-Sides?
The Atlanta-based label Dust-to-Digital would like to show us the flip side of The Anthology of American Folk Music, but they don’t like what they hear.
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