Anthromusicology
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Daniel J. Levitin proposes that humans have been shaped by a “soundtrack of civilization.”
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Fest is old
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
With new talent bookers in charge this year, the Philadelphia Folk Festival is doing its best to lure in a new generation or two of fans, while still holding out plums for festival perennials.
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'Society' folk: Janis Ian reminisces on Philly festival
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
IT'S NOT EASY being a child star - just ask Britney Spears. But for a much deeper and more satisfying response, from a survivor with a real head on her shoulders, check out Janis Ian's entertaining and enlightening tome "Society's Child: My Autobiography" (Tarcher/Penguin).
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Janis Ian: The singer now also storyteller
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Touring is old hat to Janis Ian. The Grammy-winning folk legend has been taking her music on the road periodically since 1967.
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Janis Ian Society's Child Interview
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
A talk with the singer-songwriter and author of a new memoir, Society's Child. Janis Ian's initiation into rock 'n' roll was early and dramatic. In 1966, at the age of 15, she recorded Society's Child, a song she'd written about an interracial romance. It raced up the charts and caused an immediate firestorm. Ian soon became pals with some of the era's greatest musical stars, including Janis Joplin...
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Janis Ian
Time (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
A talk with the singer-songwriter and author of a new memoir, Society's Child .
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Hot Tickets
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
By Ed Bumgardner, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Aug. 7--Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the following shows: Janis Ian, 7 p.m. Oct. 26, McGlohon Theatre, North Carolina Performing Arts Center, Charlotte. $20, $25, $27.50 .Visit www.carolinatix.org or call 704-372-1000.
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Transcriptase
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
“Transcriptase is a new website that has launched, featuring fiction by some very familiar authors. You may remember the Helix debacle from a while back, authors who asked for their stories to be taken down, and authors who felt they didn’t feel right taking them down but didn’t appreciate what the editor of Helix had [...]
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Stormlinker
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
As a response to William Sanders’ recent behaviour, a group of Helix authors have put their stories and poems online at Transcriptase, along with some commentary. The current list of authors involved: Jennifer Pelland, Rachel Swirsky, Yoon Ha Lee, Elizabeth Barrette, Beth Bernobich, Maya Bohnhoff, Eugie Foster, Sara Genge, Samantha Henderson, Janis Ian, N.K. Jemisin, [...]
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Transcriptase
Tobias S. Buckell Online (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Transcriptase is a new website that has launched, featuring fiction by some very familiar authors. You may remember the Helix debacle from a while back, authors who asked for their stories to be taken down, and authors who felt they didn’t feel right taking them down but didn’t appreciate what the editor of Helix had [...]
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Ellen Bukstel: Florida-Based Folk-Pop Singer-Songwriter Draws from Her Life to Bring Hope, Laughter, Tears, Biting Wit and Inspiration to Her Eclectic Debut 'Daddy's Little Girl'
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quickly emerging as a pre-eminent folk/pop artist of our time, Ellen Bukstel (
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Upcoming: Janis Ian to discuss autobiography on ‘Up to Date'
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Steve Kraske, The Kansas City Star’s political correspondent, is host of “Up to Date” from 11 a.m. to noon weekdays on 89.3 FM, KCUR. Today: Famed singer Janice Ian (“At Seventeen”) discusses her book Society’s Child: My Autobiography .
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Book Notes - Janis Ian ("Society's Child: My Autobiography")
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Before I read Janis Ian's Society's Child: My Autobiography, I have to admit not being familiar...
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5 questions for Janis Ian
USA Today (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Singer Janis Ian's autobiography is aptly called Society's Child (Tarcher/Penguin, 361 pp., $26.95) after her 1966 hit about ...
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remember those who win the game lose the love they sought to gain
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Heads-up. Janis Ian is going to be on All Things Considered on NPR tonight, for those of you who are fans.
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