Chicago - Feb. 20, 2019

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Did Academia Kill Jazz?

By Adam Gustafson/The Conversation

Jazz seems to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance among movie directors - look no further than documentaries such as Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; biopics such as Born to Be Blue; and recent Oscar winners like Whiplash.

While films about jazz are everywhere, evidence suggests that fewer people are actually consuming the music, putting the genre more on par with classical music than with today's pop artists.

There are a host of reasons for the decline of jazz as a popular music, but the one that interests me as a music historian is the role that academics has played.

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Posted on February 10, 2019

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A Musical Soul Food Library

By Don Jacobson

Boinng! My music dork-o-meter just buried the needle!
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Posted on March 1, 2010

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Chicago In Song: Hobo Hub

By Don Jacobson

If you go by popular song lyrics, there is no one in Chicago who is not a drunken, miserable wreck.
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Posted on February 1, 2010

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RockRadio.Com

From "Concerns of a GOP Neo-phyte" to "Space Age Love Song."
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Posted on August 16, 2018

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Dave Dudley: Lonelyville

By Don Jacobson

Where the Nashville Sound met a broken heart and Tom T. Hall.
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Posted on January 20, 2010

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Did Academia Kill Jazz?

By Adam Gustafson/The Conversation

It has become brussels sprouts for budding music aficionados: You know it's good for you, but it doesn't necessarily taste all that great.

Posted on February 10, 2019

The Mekons: Deserted

By Bloodshot Records

"We went to the desert to have our brains scoured. We went from one desert to another - a more hopeful place where we arm ourselves with spikes and endure."

Posted on January 30, 2019