music
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When the gods grow hungry, we feed them the lives of our most gorgeous singers.
Even a person who’s made art that we love might like to walk peacefully down the street.
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On grace and the proper way to listen to music.
A brief portrait of the guy rocking out at the Dave Brubeck show.
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On inflammatory language & music.
I recently spent an afternoon sitting in the “undergraduate resource room” at Indiana University reading Randall Kennedy‘s The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (which is not the book’s entire title… but that’s kinda the whole point of this essay). The book is good — a thorough history of our most damaging racial epithet, with special emphasis…
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On family (my own) and music videos.
I had planned to post something serious today. Maybe a piece on Freeman Dyson’s writing about amnesty; I wrote & scheduled it a few weeks ago but have been bumping it since. Or an essay about the evolution of skin color that I’ve been taking notes for ever since reading early press coverage about the new human genomics data.…
Frank Brown Cloud 