Category: America
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Cities Burn and The Show Goes On: JGB at the Warfield, April 30, 1992
jg1992-04-30.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.141475.flac1644 On April 30, 1992, as on other Thursdays before, at least a couple American cities were in flames as protests over racial injustice turned violent and disorderly in the aftermath of a Simi Valley jury’s acquittal of four LAPD officers accused in the March 1991 beating of black motorist Rodney King. The Garcia Band…
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Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7TAYus5LRzuTDF5bkxHOEx5TU0/view?usp=sharing This includes the table of contents, which is super interesting. Have at it! Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Folk Songs of America, 1: cover Folk Songs of America, 2: map Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter
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Folk Songs of America, 2: map
Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Folk Songs of America, 1: cover Folk Songs of America, 2: map Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter
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“Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders & Tom Fogerty Sat-Sun, New Monk”
SFC 7/2/71 p. 52 Last year I spun some 1970 and early 1971 microfilm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and found seven new-to-The-List shows in a three-month span. If you follow the blog or scroll down a bit chronologically, you’ll see that I have continued to discover more in the 1971-1972 period, and even as…
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Takedown!
David Rieff brilliantly takes down some of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s romanticism about America and its role in the world. I love the ideals she lays out, but his empirical critique is spot-on, IMO.