Aubrey Glazer maintains that Leonard Cohen’s songbook provides hope that “within the very brokenness there emerges a new openness within the world and inside ourselves to find the path to its redemption”.
Arts & Cultural Critique
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese”: A Review
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,” a film that plays with our sense of truth, fiction, reality, time, and memory.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Coopting the Beatles
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Peter Gabel argues that, in coopting songs from the 1960s, advertisers not only increase their profits but also strip the songs of their transcendental sense of meaning and purpose.
Music
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Articles
Crossing Borders, Planting Olive Trees
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Joshua Davis has played music in South American rainforests, on the promenade in Havana, in old mining towns in Michigan, and beyond. But Tuwani, a village in the Palestinian West Bank, tested his comfort level perhaps more than any previous gig.
Music
A Jewish Composer for Our Time
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Who knew that by 2012 the world of classical music would be so wonderfully eclectic, unpredictable, and adventurous? Who knew that composers would freely borrow from folk and popular styles, as well as ancient traditions? Listeners are welcoming this trend with relish, turning toward this “new” music for inspiration, soul nourishment, and a connection to ancient roots.
Z Archive
Undiscovered No Longer
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“The Undiscovered Paul Robeson” by Paul Robeson Jr.: Review by Paul Von Blum
Rethinking_Religion
Word Jazz: Music and the Poetry of Rav Kook
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We can sense the shared matrix of poetry and music in the rhythmic loam of language from which they both arose. Some of our languages preserve the connection in name: in Hebrew we use shirah to signify both song and poem, as if all song implies poetry and all poetry implies music.
Articles
Can’t Stop the SlingShot: Hip-Hop Arises in Palestine
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We watch a group of five rappers prepare for their first show in their hometown. Dressed in requisite hip-hop style—football jerseys, baseball caps, and the like—the performers primp nervously and practice their rhymes, while they talk about their pre-show jitters. This could be any crew of kids in the world that’s recently found a voice in the global phenomenon of rap music. But the impact hits as we watch them enter a modest club to their friends’ greetings, and then hit the stage after one of them gets on the mic and announces: “We are PR, the first rappers from Gaza.”