Glad to see the Mexican immigrants killed in a 1948 plane crash near Fresno on an federal plane deporting them back to Mexico finally remembered with a proper gravestone. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it. I don’t know if he ever actually recorded it, but it’s been covered a ton of times. I’m a […]
Month: September 2013
Monica Potts’s new piece is very strongly recommended. The chilling premise: Everything about Crystal’s life was ordinary, except for her death. She is one of a demographic—white women who d
In a story almost too good to be true, Jeremy Fugleberg of the Casper Star-Tribune chronicles a meeting between a local NAACP member and the regional leader of the Ku Klux Klan. [UPDATE BY ROB] Erik n
Of course “Hurt” is a Johnny Cash song. In the public mind, any song sung by Johnny Cash is automatically a Johnny Cash song, be it “Cocaine Blues” or “Bird on a Wire” or “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Why even research such an obvious fact? You don’t have to listen to a single country music […]
Martin Scorsese gave a great talk for the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. It’s reprinted in the New York Review of Books and is on the importance of preserving our language of film in
Perhaps the Jew Kaufman will provide LGM readers with a semiotics of the visual rhetoric of this ongoing series:
I haven’t been able to confirm whether or not this is authentic, but I suppose the fact that it very well could be is in some ways more significant. Update: A commenter provides a link to a copy in a Cornell University library collection of political Americana. ERIK–In my view, what is significant about this […]
Crank senators: Senator Angry Grampy and Senator Huckleberry, the presiding geopolitical thinkers in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, over today to discuss Syria, and to give them the opp
Shorter Richard Cohen: “Young women get raped because Elvis once got shown from the waist down Mick Jagger sang “Let’s spend some yarrrgh together” on Sullivan Miley Cyrus danc
An appropriate song to end this exploration of labor and song is this piece on deindustrialization, Tom Russell’s “U.S. Steel.” I hope you enjoyed this set of labor music.
Sure it might be a cliche, but Charlie Haden at least believes that the people united will never be defeated. Besides, we need more leftist jazz.
Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968, edited by Jan Hoffenaar, Dieter Kruger, and David Zabecki (English translation) is a collection of essays on Soviet and Western pl