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And the Jury’s Still Out
Monday Music: The Stones Are BackAnd the Jury’s Still Out
The Rolling Stones are approaching 60 years of recording, a career that spans the album-rock era and (with only a few others) helped set the direction for what we now view as classic rock. The band long ago ceded that responsibility, following rather than driving trends, but it’s kept recording, kept touring — to decidedly mixed results since the Seventies. A new album is on its way — their 31st — and the single (and lead-off track) “Angry” is out.
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Notes on My Punk Rock Introduction
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A Poem from the 1990s on a Photo from Chechnya that Could Have Been Written Today
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Some Articles and Essays Worth Considering
A Brief Weekend Reading ListSome Articles and Essays Worth Considering
Here is a brief overview of what I’ve been reading this week. I’ll try to continue posting these things on Saturdays. Feel free to send me recommendations, as well, and to comment on my brief notes. I’ll post a link to Substack Notes for discussion. Justin E.H. Smith, “My Generation,” Harper’s Magazine Justin E.H. Smith offers what begins as a lament for what I’ll call the Invisible Generation, or what the demographers and press call Generation X or Gen X, but ends as a critique of everybody’s favorite target, “cancel culture” — or “the widespread philistinism and prissiness that prevails with regard to art” that he says prevails in our current moment.
Books by Hank Kalet In the end, his is a purely art/cultural analysis that leaves one major question unanswered: Why have we allowed ourselves to by into this false generational narrative in the first place? I am a boomer, based on the demographics, but those of us born in the 1960s have only a nominal connection to the boomer generation. We grew up after the Sixties, but in its shadow, and came of age as AIDS took center stage and the economy choked our opportunities. At the same time, we were lucky to avoid the extreme college debt that has burden Xers and those who come later. Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Channel Surfing A subscription gets you:
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