Lou Reed is about more than walking on the wild side and has long been a keen observer of social and political events.
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Book Review: Sovereign Bones, Edited by Eric Gansworth
It's hard enough as it is getting published without having to fight against other people's expectations of what my work should be like for it to be my work.
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Making no effort to hide deficiencies behind technology, James sings with the most abused word in music – soul.
Read More »Concert Review: Erdem Helvacıoğlu – Plucked String Festival – Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, 11-17-2007
Instead of electronics being the music, they are now another instrument to be utilized in creating and performing music.
Read More »Music Review: Harry Manx Wise And Otherwise
His songs balance the transcendence of Eastern spiritualism with the vitality of life found in the earthiness of dirt scrabble blues.
Read More »Music Review: His Name Is Alive Sweet Earth Flowers: A Tribute To Marion Brown
...his music moved beyond the limitations imposed by expectations of what Jazz should be.
Read More »Multiculturalism And The Melting Pot: Immigration In Canada And The United States, Part Two
It's time for Canadians to get off their high horses and wipe that smirk off their faces.
Read More »Multiculturalism And The Melting Pot: Immigration In Canada And The United States, Part One
Through the 1960s it was easy to portray Canada as a happy, multicultural paradise.
Read More »Interview: Singer Songwriter – Martha Redbone
"I feel that the musical expression is most important, not the ethnic background of the musician making it."
Read More »Theocracy, Democracy, Racism, And Me
...it was to keep people like me out that those restrictions existed.
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