Music and Culture

NYT November 8, 2008 Child’s Garden of Hip-Hop (for Mom to Love, Too) By MOTOKO RICH By now, hip-hop has become a mainstream part of the cul...

By Patrick Moberg

NYT November 6, 2008 Music Essay in D: The Critic’s Cogitation About Titles By ALLAN KOZINN During an interview segment of a Making Music co...

I missed this when it happened. He was a documentarian to the wonderful culture of New Orleans. Times-Picayune Photographer, jazz archivist ...

LAT Yma Sumac, 'Peruvian songbird' with multi-octave range, dies at 86 The singer with a persona matching her exotic voice became an...

AP/MSNBC Israel considers question: ‘Who is a Jew?’ Issue heads to higher court after rabbis annul some 40,000 conversions The Associated Pr...

NYT October 22, 2008 Tijuana Journal Wary Tourists Toss Aside a Chance to Taste History By MARC LACEY TIJUANA, Mexico — Eating salad in Mexi...

From his blog at the Atlantic . It's a short post, read the whole thing. The finish: ... I was looking at this picture of Obama's gr...

One can only imagine the longterm effects. NYT [see original post for images and audio supplement] October 20, 2008 Drug Killings Haunt Mex...

WaPo Call Centers Are Fodder For India's Pop Culture Bollywood Movie Is Latest Manifestation By Rama Lakshmi Washington Post Foreign Ser...

Newsweek The Original Culture Warrior Since when was 'cosmopolitan' a dirty word? Leonard Bernstein proved that the low and high art...

From LAT music blog ... "Now details are surfacing as to just how much lucre the band pulled in by pulling out of traditional release s...

NYT October 16, 2008 Neal Hefti, 85, Jazz and Hollywood Composer, Dies By BRUCE WEBER Neal Hefti, whose renown as a forward-looking composer...

NYT October 17, 2008 Alton Ellis, Jamaican Singer, Dies at 70 By ROB KENNER Alton Ellis, the smooth Jamaican singer and songwriter known as ...

NYT October 13, 2008 U.S. Refuge for Singer Fleeing the Taliban By BEN SISARIO The threats started about a year ago, telling Haroon Bacha to...