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Roses
In the summer of 1998, shortly after my girlfriend Valerie moved out of our Brooklyn apartment, using the excuse that I was too depressing to live with, Mom called me from her Harlem brownstone, sniffling into the phone. “He’s gone, David,” she said, her voice cracking. “I knew as soon as they started cutting off…
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Blue-Eyed Soul: Cultural Appropriation?
Is blue-eyed soul a form of cultural appreciation or appropriation? Spurred by Robin Thicke’s soulful summer hit, “Blurred Lines,” Michael A. Gonzales explores the question at Ebony. Nevertheless, while “Blurred Lines” is most definitely one of the hottest songs of the season, Robin Thicke also retains his spot as one of the more popular “blue-eyed soul” singers…
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Mourning Disco's Glittering Star
(The Root) — For music fans who experienced the club-hopping ’70s, Donna Summer will long be remembered as the quintessential diva of disco, the oft-derided genre that rose and quickly faded within the span of a decade. While many of her contemporaries were one-hit wonders, Summer was one of the few artists of the disco…
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