Stories by tintinnabula

Strummin' on the Old Banjo: How an African Instrument Got a Racist Reinvention

In the Joints of Their Toes: A ruse that gave rise to the spiritualist movement

Natural Selection: How a New Age Hustler Sold the Sound of the World

Sing to Me: Karaoke is self-compromise as spectacle

The Historical Significance of Fortune-Telling

How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm

Zadie Smith: dance lessons for writers

Kierkegaard’s Rebellion

Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips

The Growing Charm of Dada

Brutalism is Back

What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like

John Cage’s Gift to Us

Building Your Sonic Brand

The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley

In Search of the Third Bird: Kenneth Morris and the Three Unusual Arts

The Sorcerer of Jazz

Stage Death: From Offstage to in Your Face

The Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

Emma Jung and her impossible husband

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