music
Dylan Lauds Tradition, Popular Music Predecessors

Bob Dylan is a legend, an American treasure, and obviously an American original. On Friday...

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The Empty Hearts: Power Pop for Summer Fun

Are you looking for some late-summer, top-down, hard-driving power pop? If so, do yourse...

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Music of Tennessee: An American Cultural Treasure

Every year, the Oxford American literary magazine dedicates an issue to exploring the mu...

culture101
Remembering the Silver Fox

By Larry Kaufmann Probably no greatly popular American singer had less desire to be a sup...

music
Another Angle on Sinatra’s ‘Way’

Essay by Hal White Perhaps only The American Culture (TAC) can talk intelligently about F...

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The Golden Age of Rock n’ Roll

I’ve remarked to my children several thousand times how great the rock n’ roll era fro...

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Grammy Wrap-Up

 I am seldom capable of watching an awards show, as they are just too painfully stupi...

music
Neil Young’s “Living with War”

To get a feel for the new political atmosphere in the wake of the Democrats' takeover of b...