New Guardian column about the way we (meaning the Brits - I don’t know about how things stand in America) relate to pre-rock pop music, and reality TV’s radical rewriting of pop history. I think this is one of my better pieces for them!
There’s a new Poptimist out tomorrow too - I am going to have a very busy day, I suspect (my last at my current job) so may not be able to give it the customary hype.
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BAH I hadn’t noticed until this that “singers with a command...particular techniques” in...
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curiously restrictive use maybe of the term “technique”? Sinatra has technique; opera singers have technique;...
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Hey! The Ella songbooks were totally my introduction to ”pre-rock” music in my teens. Actually this “best of” the Ella...
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As always in America, things are too diffuse to generalize easily. My unscientific observation is that people over forty...
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This is really good.
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