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Kevin Dettmar
Music and Cultural Criticism
Leadership
Scholarship
Kevin Dettmar
Music and Cultural Criticism
Leadership
Scholarship
Music and Cultural Criticism
Leadership
Scholarship
  • Can This Dinosaur Change?

    Lucky Hank stars Bob Odenkirk as a sympathetic fossil: a college professor.

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  • 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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  • 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 ‘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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  • 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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  • Radiohead’s “OK Computer” Turns Twenty-Five

    It’s possible now to see what the album opened up both for the band and for other ambitious pop and rock acts who would follow.

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  • What “Drive My Car” Reveals on a Second Viewing

    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s film overflows with surprising references to its literary source materials.

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  • The Velvet Underground Eludes Todd Haynes

    The long-awaited documentary about the Velvet Underground is very good, but we had reason to expect more.

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  • What Bob Dylan Is Doing in “Murder Most Foul”

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  • Witnessing the Moon Landing in Ireland, at the Start of the Troubles

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  • All Along the Ivory Tower

    Amateur geeks and scholarly nerds come together to discuss Bob Dylan and his music.

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  • Dead Poets Society Is a Terrible Defense of the Humanities

    The beloved film's portrayal of studying literature is both misleading and deeply seductive.

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  • Rock That Sucks

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  • ‘We Are the World'—Just Ask Our Agents

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  • The Discreet Charm of the Bad Voice

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