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Lead Belly and the folklorists
When Michael Taft of the American Folklife Center received a call asking if the Center would be interested in an old Lead Belly disc, it seemed imposs…
Mick Taylor and “Time waits for no one”
In a 2012 interview, Mick Taylor was asked whether there was a particular recording from his days with The Rolling Stones that he was the most proud o…
Dave Grohl’s reticence
In a recent interview, Dave Grohl discussed why he didn’t push for his own songs while he was drumming for Nirvana: “I didn’t like…
Cymbals and symbols in ancient Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses an astonishing bronze figurine, perhaps unearthed in Cyprus: a nude woman playing a pair of cymbals, s…
The tígueras of merengue típico
In most genres of Caribbean music women tend to participate as dancers or vocalists, but in Dominican merengue típico they are more often i…