music

  • My eMusic: The sound of silence

    By René Rasmussen | October 7th, 2018

    At the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2016, when Patti Smith, as a stand-in for Bob Dylan, performs Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”, but suddenly stops singing, and her eyes […]

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  • “The Boss” and Psychoanalysis

    By Thomas Svolos | August 27th, 2018

    In the United States, many Americans within a generation or two of my age—meaning, many Americans—recognize the musician Bruce Springsteen as “The Boss.”  Springsteen’s songwriting, his lyrics, and his marathon, […]

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  • Chanson d’Amour and the Jouissance of the Other

    By Scott Wilson | October 2nd, 2015

    Chanson Française owes its origins of course to the Chanson Réaliste moment of Aristide Bruant and Le Chat Noir around 1893 that brought young intellectuals together with the demi monde […]

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