Music and Poetry
A reader asks about the poetry of Wilfred Owen
April 8, 1999
To: Harvey Thompson
World Poetry and the English language
March 19, 1999
Dear Editor,
Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
By Richard Phillips, March 12, 1999
The folk/traditional American music scene has produced powerful social commentators from Woody Guthrie and others in the 1930s and 40s, through to the numerous folk singers who spoke out in the 1960s ...
A remarkable anthology of world poetry
March 12, 1999
Dear editor,
Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
By Richard Phillips, March 11, 1999
The folk/traditional American music scene has produced powerful social commentators from Woody Guthrie and others in the 1930s and 40s, through to the numerous folk singers who spoke out in the 1960s ...
The singer and the song explored
The Voice of the People: A 20 CD collection of folk song by Topic Records
By Paul Bond, March 5, 1999
The recent release of Topic Records' 20 CD collection The Voice of the People makes available many long-deleted recordings of traditional folk-singers and musicians from the British Isles. Compiled by...
Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Louis Armstrong and the growth of jazz
The music of everyday events
Review of Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life by Laurence Bergreen
By Ian Bruce, February 25, 1999
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life by Laurence Bergreen. Broadway paperback edition, 1998, 564 pages, $16.00
Betrayed
I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1998, 323 pp., $26.00
By David Walsh, January 13, 1999
"At any rate, all I can do with my story is tell it. And tell it. And tell it."-- My Life as a Man
A conversation with Dave Van Ronk
By David Walsh, May 7, 1998
The name of Dave Van Ronk is inextricably linked, first and foremost, to the folk music scene in New York City's Greenwich Village in the 1960s. He played with and knew virtually everyone of musical s...
