It seems like it would be hard to pick two art forms that have less to do with each other than music and literature. One involves listening to sounds, the other involves silently reading words. But, there is a certain music in language, and often, there is great language attached to music. This edition of Thriller looks at both sides of . . .
It seems a bit bizarre that it took Ben Folds so long to do a project where he wrote the music to another person’s lyrics. After all . . .
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is arguably the second-greatest work of postmodern fiction, after James Joyce’s Ulysses. The novel is immense, impossible, breathtaking at times and aggravating at others. By the end–for those few who can stick it out–the reader is left floored by . . .
WORDS BY: ANDREW FORD
Rhythm & Blues is just a title. The title was invented by a music journalist named Jerry Wexler in 1948 to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban Blacks. And, as music progressed, the title was applied to blues, soul, funk and a whole host of other styles. But, it is just a title.
No disrespect to Wexler – who would go on to . . .
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