Folly Theater Remedies the Sad State of American Popular Music
Pop music is the aural wallpaper of our life and times. From the Broadway show tunes to Top 40 hits which monopolized American listening for the first half of the 20th century, it was primarily a temporal art form.
Look Who’s Talking: The Real Revolution That was Rock ‘N’ Roll
Before Rock ‘n’ Roll, America’s pop music was made by teams – a songwriter, a lyricist, and an A & R (artists and repertoire) man who chose who would sing the vocal and the producer...
Rock 'n' Roll was the anthem of a seismic social shift the reverberations of which continue to shake our world. It began in the very middle of the 20th Century in post war America spearheaded by the first generation of Americans duly dubbed “teenagers.”
Near the town of Montignac in southwestern France are the Lascaux Caves where intact drawings of animals adorn the walls. Those drawings date back to the Paleolithic Age – about 17,300 years, give or take.