Malu (short for Maria Louisa) straddles two worlds, punk music and record stores on her dad’s side, and academic achievement and Mexican culture on her mother’s side. When she lands at Posada Middle School, she finds herself on the outside again and takes on the school’s culture by starting her own punk band. I loved …
A fascinating book that charts not only the brief history of hip hop as a musical genre, but also the changing cultural tides of America over the last forty years. Filled with hilarious illustrations and deep insight, this book is an excellent addition to the array of brilliant music history books already available. –Elias, Fireside …
In Mozart’s Starling, Haupt explores the unlikely and remarkable bond between one of history’s most cherished composers and one of earth’s most common birds. The intertwined stories of Mozart’s beloved pet and Haupt’s own starling provide an unexpected window into human-animal friendships, music, the secret world of starlings, and the nature of creative inspiration.
Nowhere is the truism “everything old is new again” truer than in pop music, where all the upheavals of the digital era have brought us back to the hit-factory days of Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building, and Motown, led this time by a handful of Scandinavians who have married ABBA to R&B to produce …
Celebrating the launch of North of Hope: A Daughter’s Arctic Journey published to acclaim earlier this year, Margot Case sits down with Shannon Huffman Polson to discuss the trickiness of memoir, writing place, and sharing deeply personal stories with the world. Enjoy a conversation around weaving narrative threads together, exploring what is unknown, and what risk is …
