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The Person Who Performs

From an interview with the poet Alice Notley conducted by Janique Vigier that was scheduled to appear on the Artforum website in December. Vigier pulled the piece from publication in…

The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe

by Kevin Baker,

From Johnny Cash to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”

I Told You When I Came I Was a Stranger

by Pico Iyer,

Leonard Cohen’s first public musical performance

Bartók’s Monster

by Jay Kirk,

Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania

“Wakin’ up in an empty bed”

by Robert Kotlowitz,

Gitars, folk songs, and halls of ivy

by Arnold Shaw,

Forecast

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

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by Edward Tatnall Canby,

“Song-ballets and devil’s ditties”

by William Aspenwall Bradley,

— (IV)

by Harper’s Staff,

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The Person Who Performs

The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe

I Told You When I Came I Was a Stranger

Bartók’s Monster

“Wakin’ up in an empty bed”

Gitars, folk songs, and halls of ivy

Forecast

Folk music

“Song-ballets and devil’s ditties”

— (IV)

April 1894

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