Stories by tintinnabula

Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders

The Renaissance Precursor of Rap Battles and Flow

Reflections of a Lifelong Metalhead

The Emperor’s New Music: The high stakes of popular music in ancient China

On St. Augustine's Confessions

How Ludwig II’s love for Wagner inspired the world’s greatest work of fan art

My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed

The Curses: Part I

Secret Music: On Duke Ellington’s the Queen’s Suite

Modernism, Heal Thyself

Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?

Five Magnificent Years: On Otis Redding

The source of Mozart’s inspiration - a great musical whodunnit

James Baldwin's Blues

When Beethoven Met Goethe

A San Francisco Rock Band That Was Too Wild for the Sixties

X-ray decks: the lost bone music of the Soviet Union

Skiffle Craze: An Interview with Billy Bragg

Free at Last: Mal Waldron’s Ecstatic Minimalism

At Home in Exile

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