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Columns

The mics are silent and the lights are off…

By Art Podell

May 7, 2023/by FolkWorks

Hank Williams Centennial

Roland Sturm

May 7, 2023/by Roland Sturm

Bosco: Old-Time Music Traveler from Japan

By David Bragger

April 26, 2023/by David Bragger

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Articles

DISCOVERING STEVE MANN

February 2021

By Charlotte Cantrell

ROGER GOODMAN’s VOLUME 7 COLUMNS

Roger Goodman's 2007 Columns
Keys to the Highway - Adventures in Music Theory

ROGER GOODMAN’s VOLUME 6 COLUMNS

Roger Goodman's 2006 Columns
Keys to the Highway - Adventures in Music Theory

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Interviews

Nani – Defending Endangered Culture with Fresh Music

Noam Vazana discusses Ladino language and culture, feminism, and nonbinary love through her album Ke Haber

By deb Ewing

Peter Harper – Part Two: in Bronze

in which we learn how Zimbabwe and Tiffany Lamp knockoffs equal folk music

By deb Ewing

Peter Harper – Part Three: Reveal and Reciprocation

Look for Peter Harper's new releases every two weeks for the next year!

By deb Ewing

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Milestones

Remembering Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records

(July 1, 1931 - May 5, 2023 )
The longtime Berkeley resident was a tireless ethnomusicologist who seemed to experience life as an ongoing series of musical revelations. He died at 91.

By Andrew Gilbert May 09, 2023

Remembering My Husband, Roger Goodman

(October 2, 1945 - April 13, 2023)

By Monika White

For David Lindley: “Into a Dancer He Has Grown”

(March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2023)

By Terry Paul Roland

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Reviews

This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song

By Barbara Dane

By Steve Goldfield

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

2-CD album by Jalopy Records, and separate book by Mat Callahan with Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelly, University Press of Mississippi, 2022

By Leonard Potash

Made in Louisiana: The Story of the Acadian Accordion by Marc Savoy

By Andy Cohen

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