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The Artful Renegades: Protest Politics and the Rambunctious Rebellious Musicology of Bob Dylan and Bruce ‘the Boss’ Springsteen
Rebels with a Cause There are those that say there’s nothing worse than rebellion for rebellion’s sake. But music’s premier outspoken troubadours, Bob Dylan and Bruce “the Boss” Springsteen (King of the Rustbelt), are the kind of recalcitrant troublemakers that tend to hitch their wagons to social causes that actually mean something. That is, they’re
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Cult Fiction: The Kool Aid Kings
Cultivating Cults In this article Sleuth Hound takes a deep dive into the diabolical world of cults. Why do people join cults? What kind of people are drawn to them? Are we all vulnerable to the allure of the Kool Aid Kings? If so, can we safeguard ourselves and others from the pull of these
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Strange Fruit and the Land of the Delta Blues: A Deep Dive into the History of Jazz and Blues Music
Deep Blue Dive In this article Sleuth Hound takes a deep dive into the archives of history to bring you an overview of some of the beautiful, nuanced and rich stories underscoring the emergence of jazz and blues music particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In many instances these stories are inextricably linked to
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Tarantino Aesthetic: The Burgeoning Rise of Ultraviolent Cinema
“Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.”― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange From Sam Peckinpah to Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone, audiences’ thirst for ultraviolent content is palpable. Cinemagoers flock to theatres in search of cheap violent thrills. While these filmmakers’ works are unequivocally intoxicating,
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Headstones or Handcuffs?
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, Rage, Rage against the Dying of the Light – Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas’ famous poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” was written as an ode or perhaps an agonizingly poignant requiem for his dying father. While the poem was specifically about the demise of
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