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Gie Knaeps / Getty The Band That Best Captures the Sound of the ’70s
Other groups made a bigger splash, but Blondie was a true genre chameleon.
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Joel Bernstein What Makes Neil Young’s Voice Irresistible
The key to the enduring popularity of his less-than-groundbreaking album Harvest
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens The ‘L.A. Woman’ Reveals Herself
A visit to Eve Babitz’s newly opened archives reveals how she constructed her unique public persona.
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Courtesy of Leonard Cohen Family Trust Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ Belongs to Everyone
What is it about the once virtually unknown song that inspires so many musicians to make it their own?
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Eliza Morse / Netflix What The Chair Gets Unexpectedly Right About the Ivory Tower
Despite the public attention paid to big egos, colleges and universities run on the generosity of the common professor.
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Touchstone Pictures Dead Poets Society Is a Terrible Defense of the Humanities
The beloved film's portrayal of studying literature is both misleading and deeply seductive.
