Kurt Keefner
Call Me Deacon Blues
Steely Dan's song "Deacon Blues" tells the paradoxical story of how an inauthentic man finds liberation. How much is that everybody's story?
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Kurt Keefner
- Nov 20, 2022
- 17 min
Fun Songs about Bad Men
When does a fun song about a bad man celebrate wickedness? And is this OK in the name of fun?
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Kurt Keefner
- Oct 20, 2022
- 12 min
Amazing Meme
The story you didn't know of the classic hymn and how it has been a prolific meme in American culture.
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Kurt Keefner
- Oct 5, 2022
- 14 min
Foundation Songs
Songs about home: what can we say about them and what do they say about us?
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Kurt Keefner
- Oct 9, 2020
- 4 min
Angel with No Name
The name of one of music history's most most difficult sets of sonatas is unknown, but its beauty is evident.
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Kurt Keefner
- Mar 27, 2018
- 11 min
The Civil War Re-Imagined in Music
What contemporary songs can tell us about our epic conflict.
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Kurt Keefner
- Mar 10, 2018
- 5 min
Sing, Little Bird!
The beauty of baroque music is that it can be realized in so many ways. Four versions of the same sweet song.
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Kurt Keefner
- Dec 16, 2017
- 11 min
Heroes and Shipwrecks: Beethoven and Ayn Rand
In which the sense of life in Beethoven's Fifth is compared to that of Atlas Shrugged.
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Kurt Keefner
- Oct 24, 2017
- 9 min
The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
A musical that tells the tale of that force of nature, Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues
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Kurt Keefner
- Sep 22, 2017
- 6 min
The Goddess of Love Makes Heroes of Us All
Regarding the classic Bollywood video "Chaiyya, Chaiyya," and its erotic song and dance.
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