Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Sondheim’

No One Is Alone

September 25, 2021

“No One Is Alone,” written by Stephen Sondheim, recorded by Judy Collins, 2017. Originally written for the play Into the Woods.

Judy Collins website

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Sociologist’s Totems

November 27, 2010

Sociologist's Totems

“The lyrics of contemporary popular song, of rock and rap and country, are the ones which reflect the immediacy of our world, much as theater songs did in the first half of the twentieth century. They are the sociologist’s totems.”

Who wrote that?

Robert Christgau? Simon Frith? Todd Gitlin? Peter Wicke? Robert Palmer? Lester Bangs? Paul Friedlander? R. Serge Denisoff? Greil Marcus?

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