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"Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure": An Interview with Bill Malone and Tracey Laird
Retrospective and Interview by Will Hermes, Longreads, 4 June 2018
The co-authors of Country Music USA – a revised edition of the genre's definitive history – talk about the music's African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, ...
Memoir by Kimberly Mack, Longreads, February 2019
Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with ...
Cypress Hill, Tricky, Barry White: It's Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer
Memoir by Michael A. Gonzales, Longreads, June 2019
Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of ...
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