Folk’s Missing Link Folk’s Missing Link
I was in high school in the 1960s when I first saw Dave Van Ronk at the Gaslight, one of those little cellar clubs that used to line a Greenwich Village that now lives in myth an...
Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Artists Strike a Chord Artists Strike a Chord
Johnny Temple plays bass guitar in the rock bands Girls Against Boys and New Wet Kojak and is the publisher of Akashic Books (www.akashicbooks.com).
Feb 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple
Wild, Wild West Wild, Wild West
You may have read, in these pages and elsewhere [see Danny Goldberg, "Harvard Raps West," February 4], about the flap that Harvard University's president, Lawrence Summers, kicke...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Harvard Raps West Harvard Raps West
As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers,...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg
‘The Light for the Heart’ ‘The Light for the Heart’
The first Arabic music I heard was in its native habitat, while riding on gaudily painted buses through Turkey, Morocco and Syria in the 1960s. Before the drivers thrashed their ...
Jan 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jim Motavalli
Trafficking in Verse Trafficking in Verse
Immigrants and traffickers are the subjects of a certain style of Mexican music.
Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
On the Record: Toward a Union Label On the Record: Toward a Union Label
Courtney Love's plea to fellow recording artists to join her in the creation of a new musicians' guild, printed below, is the latest blow to the beleaguered "Big Five
Sep 6, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Courtney Love and Johnny Temple
Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen? Eminem: Grammy’s Homecoming Queen?
So if you managed to endure CBS's three-plus hours of Grammy cov erage, if you survived the sparsely attended protests from GLAAD and NOW, host Jon Stewart's lame commentary, the ...
Jul 9, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
Blowin’ in His Own Wind Blowin’ in His Own Wind
How the protest singer turned surrealistic prophet.
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Visiting the Folks Visiting the Folks
I was born by a Kerouac stream under Eisenhower skies --John Gorka The New Folk Movement is now about twenty years old, an...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro