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Kurt Keefner
Apr 24 min read
Writings About Music
Twenty-five years of writing about music! A selection of 17 essays and reviews of music from all over the world.
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Kurt Keefner
Apr 5, 202310 min read
Call Me Deacon Blues
Steely Dan's song "Deacon Blues" tells the paradoxical story of how an inauthentic man finds liberation. How much is that everybody's story?
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Kurt Keefner
Nov 20, 202217 min read
Fun Songs about Bad Men
When does a fun song about a bad man celebrate wickedness? And is this OK in the name of fun?
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Kurt Keefner
Oct 20, 202212 min read
Amazing Meme
The story you didn't know of the classic hymn and how it has been a prolific meme in American culture.
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Kurt Keefner
Oct 5, 202214 min read
Foundation Songs
Songs about home: what can we say about them and what do they say about us?
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Kurt Keefner
Oct 9, 20204 min read
Angel with No Name
The name of one of music history's most most difficult sets of sonatas is unknown, but its beauty is evident.
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Kurt Keefner
Mar 27, 201811 min read
The Civil War Re-Imagined in Music
What contemporary songs can tell us about our epic conflict.
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Kurt Keefner
Mar 9, 20185 min read
Sing, Little Bird!
The beauty of baroque music is that it can be realized in so many ways. Four versions of the same sweet song.
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Kurt Keefner
Dec 16, 201711 min read
Heroes and Shipwrecks: Beethoven and Ayn Rand
In which the sense of life in Beethoven's Fifth is compared to that of Atlas Shrugged.
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Kurt Keefner
Oct 24, 20179 min read
The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
A musical that tells the tale of that force of nature, Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues
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Kurt Keefner
Sep 22, 20176 min read
The Goddess of Love Makes Heroes of Us All
Regarding the classic Bollywood video "Chaiyya, Chaiyya," and its erotic song and dance.
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