Like the more traditional blues before her, Joplin’s soulful white blues, her “kozmic blues,” is similar to Romantic poetry, as it is charged with radical praxis; it is an unwaveringly personal music that conveys much about Joplin emotionally, and in turn, the sociocultural climate of the flower children in the mid- to late-1960s. The radicalContinue reading ““Work Me, Lord”: Janis Joplin’s Kozmic Blues”
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The Beatles, Get Back
The first really magical moment, when everyone was feeling the power of the music, was Paul’s first performance of “Let It Be.”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 