About-faces of Consequence
My overarching question is this: Can any of these figures articulate a set of principles that they’ve embraced throughout their processes?
Author: Barney Quick
Barney Quick writes for various magazines and website, plays jazz guitar in various configurations, and teaches jazz history and rock and roll history at Indiana University. He blogs at Late in the Day and writes longer essays at Precipice, his Substack newsletter.
Notes On The Delicious Art of Arguing
I didn’t say “debating.” I gave it some thought. Arguing is a broader category. True, much of that extra terrain doesn’t interest me. Who should have set aside the money for the gas bill...
Jeff Beck, RIP
Jeff Beck was just the way a bloke from Wallington whose imagination was set on fire by the guitar went through life.
The Best To You Each Morning: The Cereal In America Story
The inclusion of a bowl of cereal doused with milk in the breakfast ritual as practiced in the West is of relatively recent vintage.
Professor Marvel and Professor Hill are nowhere in sight
Professors Marvel and Hill didn’t have the luxury of contemplating their new destinies in solitude. All the eyes in Oz and River City were upon them.
Five Quintessentially American Recordings For Cranking Up on Independence Day
Is it too much to ask that perhaps we could do some swayin’ to records playin’ and forget our differences for this Independence Day?
Thoughts On Wisdom
To earn wisdom, you have to have an acquaintance with foolishness, You have to have harbored some regret, some embarrassment, some envy, lust and rage.
An Evening with John Strickland
“Painter John Strickland” was a necessary characterization to get the first paragraph dealt with, but let me tell you about John Strickland.
The Rhythm Changes and The Death of American Vitality and Loveliness
The Rhythm changes is just one contrafact that gave us our treasure trove of pop and jazz musical magic.
Confessions of A Rock and Roll History Teacher
I blow hot and cold on whether rock and roll has been, on balance, a force for good or bad. It’s powerful; there’s no denying that.
Church Shopping, Again
I am skittish about getting involved anywhere at this point. The pitfalls are myriad and various. So I’m church-shopping again.
The Moment and The Parameters of Happiness
How is this happening? Is seeking happiness appropriate in an age of cataclysmic war? These questions are not all that abstract.
The Energy Factor
Biden’s overall choice of policies to prioritize for focus is hampering his administration from being even more effective, particularly with regard to energy.
