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Ain't No Mountain (2 Reviews) David Hajdu
Motown, by Gerald L. Posner
- Motown by Gerald L. Posner
- Boogaloo by Arthur Kempton

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Authenticity Blues (Review) David Hajdu
Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1997, by Ronald D. Cohen and Alan Lomax
- Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1997 by Ronald D. Cohen and Alan Lomax

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Chameleon With a Toupee (Review) David Hajdu
Roman Candle, by David Evanier
- Roman Candle by David Evanier

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Fascinatin' Rhythm (4 Reviews) David Hajdu
Harry Partch, by Bob Gilmore
- Harry Partch by Bob Gilmore
- Harry Partch by Philip Blackburn and Harry Partch
- Bitter Music by Harry Partch and Thomas McGeary
- Genesis of a Music by Harry Partch

The Critics
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Folk Hero (Review) David Hajdu
Ramblin' Man, by Ed Cray
- Ramblin' Man by Ed Cray

Lush Life (1996)David Hajdu
A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
3 Reviews

Music: A Nice Young ManDavid Hajdu
Josh Groban's pop confectionary appeals to old women of all ages

Music: BreakoutDavid Hajdu
The formerly unsung Alejandro Escovedo rises from the ranks

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Music: Get Back (Review) David Hajdu
The legacy of John Lennon suffers a tone-deaf biography
- John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman

Music: God Only KnowsDavid Hajdu
Was Brian Wilson's Smile the greatest album in rock history? Its recent renovation leav...

Music: Heart MusicDavid Hajdu
Fred Hersh's jazz setting of Whitman's verse contain multitudes of energy and insight

Music: I Me MineDavid Hajdu
How you and Radiohead can make a record together

Music: Instant GratificationDavid Hajdu
MySpace.com, the Internet hotspot that is part social nexus and part music-promotion ma...

Music: Jumble JumbleDavid Hajdu
The White Stripes fetishize the analog past, but their music is more suitable to the ag...

Music: Keys To the KingdomDavid Hajdu
Remembering Michel Petrucciani, a hero of jazz piano

Music: McCartney IIIDavid Hajdu
Paul McCartney's latest attempt to discover his creative identity has less fluff than u...

Music: Memphis On BroadwayDavid Hajdu
Two Broadway musicals prove that boomer nostalgia is even more eternal than Elvis

Music: Music in the MeltdownDavid Hajdu
Neil Young on Bernie Madoff, or what popular music is making of the economic crisis

Music: Pop WomenDavid Hajdu
Lucinda Williams, Taylor Swift, Beyonce: how to be a woman in pop music today

Music: PretendingDavid Hajdu
Rock video games and the psychology of fandom

Music: Songbook JamDavid Hajdu
Mos Def and His Big Band rewrite the standards

Music: Stolen MomentsDavid Hajdu
The parallel lives of Abbey Lincoln and Mark Murphy

Music: The Blogging of American PopDavid Hajdu
Why are so many musicians obsessed with chronicling the minutiae of their lives?

Music: The Body EclecticDavid Hajdu
Jazz may be entering a new phase, one animated less by its history than other types of ...

Music: The iPod BluesDavid Hajdu
Has Internet file-sharing killed the album---or just removed it from the musician's hands?

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Music: The Lonesome Road (Review) David Hajdu
Haunted Heart, by Linda Dahl
- Haunted Heart by Linda Dahl


Music: The ProducersDavid Hajdu
In terms of their creative influence, record producers are normally just a few steps ab...

Music: They Paved ParadiseDavid Hajdu
Joni Mitchell's stunning, puzzling return

Music: This Year's ModelDavid Hajdu
North, Elvis Costello's twenty-fourth album, is the latest innovation of a brave, mercu...

Music: Triumph of the GypsiesDavid Hajdu
On the centennial of Django Reinhardt, Gypsy music is almost everywhere

Music: TzaddikDavid Hajdu
John Zorn is exceptional at being exceptional

Music: Unchained HeartDavid Hajdu
By mixing traditional gospel with rhythm and blues, Ray Charles virtually invented soul...

Music: Where Has "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Gone?David Hajdu
Protest music is being written about the war in Iraq, but it's not being played

Music: Ye Olde RockerDavid Hajdu
As certain rock stars age, they have tried to "backdate" their careers in a failed bid ...

New York DiaristDavid Hajdu
A Mighty Wind

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Off the Beat (Review) David Hajdu
Living with Music, by Ralph Ellison and Robert O'Meally
- Living with Music by Ralph Ellison and Robert O'Meally

Positively 4th Street (2001)David Hajdu
The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

The Ten-Cent Plague (2008)David Hajdu
The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
1 Review

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Tramps Like Who? (Review) David Hajdu
Bruce Springsteen's America, by Robert Coles
- Bruce Springsteen's America by Robert Coles

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