A Song and a Mood
Court Carneyshort-form cultural criticism with an eye towards history and music
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| Issues | 14 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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Phil Ochs: Fifty Years Later
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the memorial concert held in honor of Phil Ochs, who died on April 9th, 1976. Ochs, who had struggled with mental health issues throughout much of his adult life and endured a series of physical, musical...
The Arc of Amnesia
I have been thinking about Nathan Bedford Forrest, memory, and Memphis quite a bit this past week as Tennessee Republicans moved to dismantle Memphis’s Black congressional district. The story is not new. Tennessee politics, like the state’s...
Has It Ever Been Enough?
Time for the annual reckoning of the year, music edition. (I’ve done Substack versions of this before—2024, 2023—usually with at least the illusion of a theme in mind.) This year, though, nothing quite framed itself. Apple Music tells me I...
On My Way Home
A couple of weeks ago, Erin C. Callahan had me back on her Substack, Infinity Goes Up on Trial. Even though this was my third (!) appearance, we still found ourselves circling unexpected themes. Between talking about the Dylan class I had j...
“Conceptual Composite of Multiple Projects”
What the last few weeks have taught me, or what I enjoyed this summer break.
- Galaxie 500, “Moonshot” (Peel Sessions)
This cover of a Buffy Sainte-Marie song kept coming to the surface on walks. I tend to do deep dives of artists o...
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Historian | Author | History and Cultural Memory Studies Author of RECKONING WITH THE DEVIL: NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST IN MYTH AND MEMORY (LSU Press).
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