Tag: music
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May 23, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
It was 1967, the Summer of Love, and the Beatles were making cultural revolution. Three years earlier, they were the Fab Four rocking the USA on the Ed Sullivan Show. Three years later, they would be finished, . . .
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June 29, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
There was a time, after Sinatra and before Beyonce, after wooden radios and before iPods, when rock stars ruled American culture. It was a time when rock stars were bigger than their music, and when . . .
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February 28, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
When the Nazi "Third Reich" took power in 1930s Germany, it wasn't only books that burned and words that were lost.
As the Nazis marched toward the Holocaust, music too was suppressed. . . .
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May 04, 2007 11:08 AM EDT --
For years now they've called mega-millionaire entrepreneur Russell Simmons the CEO of hip hop, and it doesn't take a finance major to see why.
Def Jam Records is his baby. So were Run DMC, LL . . .
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October 23, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
Legendary pop music producer Phil Ramone was a violin prodigy and Juilliard kid who got started early on the glam side of the pop music business. When Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday" for . . .
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September 13, 2007 10:41 AM EDT --
Nellie McKay is a time-tripper and an act like no other these days. She may take aim and knock heads like Eminem, but she sings like Doris Day, and dresses like Garbo.
Critics love her witty, Broadway-punk-jazz . . .
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June 20, 2007 10:41 AM EDT --
For a ballad of ruin and loss, there is none in the American songbook with more dark power than "House of the Rising Sun." Everybody's sung it. Everybody knows it.
It’s a song about . . .
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August 16, 2007 11:12 AM EDT --
Thirty years ago today, Elvis Presley --King of Rock ‘n Roll -- died in Memphis, at his home, Graceland, a drugged and bloated mess. The end wasn't pretty. Too many drugs and peanut . . .
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May 28, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
Philip Glass is America's most famous living classical composer, and, for decades, one of its most controversial. He's brought new audiences to classical music, and new music to the classical . . .
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January 24, 2008 11:24 AM EST --
In the "City of Big Shoulders," one Mexican band is making a big splash. Chicago's breakout ensemble Sones de Mexico has scored a Grammy nomination for its latest album "Esta Tierra . . .
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July 12, 2007 11:40 AM EDT --
The hard-boiled, bad girl image seems to be the rage now in popular culture.
If you want to know what the huge pop singer Pink thinks, you don't even have to ask. It's right there in her lyrics . . .
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July 19, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
Martin Sexton is a kind of Walt Whitman of American music. He is a self-taught singer-songwriter out of Syracuse, NY who made his chops playing for change on the streets of Boston. Now he’s on the . . .
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August 17, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
Jack Kerouac hit the American road in 1947, wrote it up in a gush in 1951, and six years later, in 1957, “On The Road” was there for all. In it, Kerouac wrote: "The only people for . . .
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June 06, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
The Great Depression was winding down. FDR was in the White House. Joe Louis had flung into the boxing ring while Amelia Earhart had taken over the skies. And the sounds of swing were sweeping . . .
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May 27, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
"In the Heights" is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now. It's a salsa, hip-hop, musical about immigrant Latino life in Manhattan's Washington Heights. It has Bodegas, . . .
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