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Irwin Silber dies at 84; editor of folk journal Sing Out!
Irwin Silber, who became a key figure in the revival of folk music beginning in the 1950s as editor of the magazine Sing Out!, has died. He was 84. Silber, who was also a producer and wrote and edited several books on music and other subjects, died...Tags: Joan Baez, Parties and Movements, Henry Wallace, Colleges and Universities, Bob Dylan
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Album review: The Avett Brothers' 'I and Love and You'
Pop & HissFor the Avett Brothers, bluegrass is hard-core, and country is emo. This North Carolina band plows a familiar field by blending folk idioms with punk, playing against the surface incongruities of the two forms while unearthing the deeper connections.... -
Live review: Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit
Pop & HissNeil Young and Co. give the kids a great show, and Young gives his fellow performers a great example. Reporting from Mountain View, Calif. - The direct impact of Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts is as plain as...... -
Bridge benefit: No Doubt's Gwen Stefani tears up; Neil Young wraps up
Pop & HissThe powerfully emotional backdrop of Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts is evident in the faces of the nonprofit school's disabled students and those of their families, which were flashed on video screens throughout Saturday's 6 1/2-hour... -
Bridge School Benefit Concerts
The direct impact of Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts is as plain as the joyful faces of the special-needs school's students, many of whom watch each year from an onstage riser placed right behind the performers.
Those faces were...Tags: Sheryl Crow, Gavin Rossdale, Academic Progress, Neil Young, Adam Sandler
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'Banjo Fred' Starner dies at 72; folk singer documented hobo music and culture
'Banjo Fred" Starner, an economics professor and banjo-playing folk singer who documented hobo music and culture, has died. He was 72.
Starner, of Winnetka, died Oct. 25 at a West Hills rehabilitation facility of complications from pneumonia and the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Music Industry, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Obituaries, Folk (genre)
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Bess Lomax Hawes dies at 88; musician and folklorist
Bess Lomax Hawes, a musician and folklorist who tapped into the legacy of her influential family of archivists and became a prominent anthropologist at what is now Cal State Northridge, has died. She was 88.
Hawes, who directed folk and traditional...Tags: Bill Clinton, Colleges and Universities, Music Industry, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), University of California, Berkeley
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Outernational, Tom Morello cover 'Deportees' to protest Arizona immigration law
Pop & HissPolitically charged New York rock group Outernational has enlisted Tom Morello for a new recording of Woody Guthrieâs poignant immigration ballad âDeporteesâ that the band is making available as a free download in response to Arizonaâs recent... -
Mike Seeger dies at 75: Versatile musician was major influence on folk music revival
Mike Seeger, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence on the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died Friday of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75. The younger half brother...Tags: The Washington Post, Traditional Music (genre), Bob Dylan, Music Industry, University of California, Los Angeles
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'Far Bright Star: A Novel' by Robert Olmstead, 'Inventing American History' by William Hogeland, 'Summer Will Show' by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 'Plants Don't Drink Coffee' by Unai Elorriaga, 'A Final Arc of Sky' by Jennifer Culkin
Far Bright Star A Novel Robert Olmstead Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 208 pp., $23.95 "Thus far the summer of 1916 had been a siege of wrathy wind and heated air. Dust and light. Sand and light. Wind and light." So begins the story of Napoleon...Tags: Parties and Movements, William F. Buckley, History, French Literature, Communist Party of China
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L.A. Story
Rock stars, Jazzers, Pachucos...they may have grown up somewhere else quaint, like Sandusky, Ohio, or Canada, but they made their mark herelived, created and died here. Music is as much a part of the L.A. legacy as film and television. From the bebop...Tags: Ornette Coleman, Britney Spears, Robert Plant, Henry Rollins, Rose Bowl Game
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Sam Hinton dies at 92; folk songwriter and singer
Sam Hinton, folk singer, songwriter, naturalist and San Diego civic treasure who delighted school children and folk-festival audiences for decades, has died. He was 92. Hinton died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Albany in Northern...Tags: U.S. Navy, Colleges and Universities, Music Industry, Science, University of California
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