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Lost Boy

by Margo Jefferson,

From the introduction to a forthcoming edition of her book On Michael Jackson, which was first published by Pantheon in 2006. In the first year of the twenty-first century my…

Memory Almost Full

by Gregory R. Todd,

From a February 26 sentencing memorandum by Judge Gregory R. Todd, in the case of Montana v. Andrew McCormack. In 2006, McCormack was arrested for stealing beer. After entering a…

Just a girl who can’t say no

by Simon Armitage,

Video killed the radio star

by Harper’s Staff,

I. Pop music in the shadow of irony

by Thomas Frank,

In defense of the sellout

by Chuck Eddy,

Standards

by E.L. Doctorow,

How great songs name us

Hereafter top 40

by Harper’s Staff,

The Grateful Dead

Edited by John W. Scott,

A concordance

Pop culture, auto-canonized

by Jonathan Freedman,

Affirmative aesthetics II

by Harper’s Staff,

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