James McMurtry reminds me, line by line, that music can still do more than decorate our playlists. It can hold our hands ...

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Black music always finds its next venue. The juke joint became the stadium. The mixtape became the stream. Now, the stage is ...

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The reading list in Rock Music Menu’s Summer Essentials. (Courtesy of, clockwise from top left, Akashic Books, Akashic Books, Jawbone Press, Enemy Books, Motorbooks, St. Martin’s Press, Jawbone Press.

Her art, like that of other Black country artists, is a response to living in a white identitarian pop culture landscape, but it is not itself reactionary. So it is not welcome.

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