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Review of Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song: liquid prose of Tambourine Man 

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[ad_1] Sixty-six songs have been given the Bob Dylan treatment in The Philosophy of Modern Song. Maybe the book (his “first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016” as the blurb breathlessly proclaims) should have been called The Philosophy of Modern American Song, […]

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Checking content in the music industry  

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[ad_1] Traditional Indian music from ‘gharanas’ with rich cultural traditions and values has wafted through the air from time immemorial carrying legacies of fables, legends and ballads. But today the music industry — we are specifically looking at the music emanating from Punjab — is being tested on several fronts, including crass commercialism, vulgar overtones […]

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