Song of the Day: “Tennessee Waltz”
Every music genre shifts its boundaries over time, and soul music has done so time and time again, beginning with its heyday in the 1960s. Sam Cooke, who achieved fame first as a young gospel performer...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Bill Cosby’s Faux Legacy
Bill Cosby is nothing like my father, and I am relieved.In a Facebook post where I shared New York Magazine’s riveting profile of thirty-five women Bill Cosby is accused of raping (with one empty...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer
MORE LIKE SUMMER BREAKUPWaking up too hot on humid mornings, I’d climb out onto the roof and watch the empty campus, the silent smooth paths, the gray-blue New England slate beautiful for no one. The...
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To Look for America: A Road Trip, a Soundtrack
I was raised by a history buff. A Civil War nerd. A father who dragged me from historical signs on the side of the roads all over the South to Lincoln’s birthplace and back to My Old Kentucky Home. A...
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