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I’ll tell you where the four winds dwell In Franklin’s tower there hangs a bell It can ring, turn night to day Ring like fire when you lose your way ‘Franklin’s Tower‘ Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter Is Steve Jobs a hidden godfather of the rather...

Harry Smith to postać niezwykła w świecie sztuki XX wieku. Muzykolog (autor legendarnej kompilacji Antologia Muzyki Amerykańskiej), prekursor New Age - miłośnik ezoteryki i filozofii Wschodu, malarz, antropolog, bitnik i filmowiec. Zainteresowanie Smitha...

We benefit from musicologists who have an adept skill of collecting, recording and documenting  American musical heritage. Three of the musicologists I respect in this vein are Alan Lomax, Samuel Charters and Harry Smith. Harry Everett Smith is primarily...

The following is a feature article from the LARB Quarterly Journal: Winter 2016 edition. To pick up your copy of the Journal, become a member of the Los Angeles Review of Books or order a copy at amazon.com. ¤ SOME 70 YEARS before Bob Dylan recorded...

Ed. Note: With the announcement this morning that Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, we are re-running this 2010 conversation between critic Greil Marcus, historian Sean Wilentz — both of whom have devoted significant portions...