The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Ritchie Valens, left, and Bob Keane, then president of Del-Fi Records, on TV show in Los Angeles, 1958. Photo from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images.Musician and music biz progidy:The ill-starred life of Bobby KeaneBy Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009Bobby Kuhn was born in California in 1922, at Manhattan Beach, later famous for it’s surf scene. Since the surfers...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Chester Arthur Burnett, aka Howling Wolf.When I was sixteen:Hitting the Village with my grandfatherWolf sang every song to the pretty hippie boy sitting directly in front of me, who turned out to be Davy Jones of the Monkees.By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / November 8, 2009When I was sixteen I made a fateful trip to New York City to visit my grandfather, Jazz critic Rudi Blesh. Rudi...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss: dead at 100.Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss:Making sense of la pensée sauvageBy Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / November 4, 2009In French sauvage means wild, not necessarily savage. In our language savage means aggressive, a value judgment left over from centuries of exterminations.Heathens, savages, primitive people, natives....
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... 2009"pepsi," 1964. Photo by Roy DeCarava.The Sound I Saw:Photography from a black point of viewBy Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / October 31, 2009Pictures of a man leaving the subway, of a saxophone, a black woman’s face. John Coltrane. Langston Hughes. The black New York City photographer who captured this Harlem history in its latter heyday was Roy DeCarava.Educated at Cooper...
