music

“Django”: A world-renowned jazz musician in wartime

January 26, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

This new feature captures a few months in the life of world-famous Belgian-French Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt.

Sidney Finkelstein: an appreciation of the great Marxist cultural critic

January 19, 2018 By Daniel Rosenberg

The Marxist cultural critic Sidney Finkelstein lived in a suitcase in my mother’s closet.

Roy Zimmerman reZists in hilarious and moving contemporary topical songs

January 17, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Most of his songs involve clever lyrics, fresh, unexpected rhymes, and good cheer, but on one or two he turns intensely, deadly serious.

“A Queerly Joyful Noise”: LGBT choruses in theory and practice

January 10, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

This is a complicated subject with a lot of moving ideas and parts.

“For Those Who Came After”: Classic Spanish Civil War songs reimagined

December 7, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

Among the International Brigades that came to offer their lives in the struggle, there arose songs that traveled far and wide. Now, they are reimagined for a new audience.