Category Archives: Music

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

I was toodling down Georgia Ave this morning on by bike when I heard bells suddenly starting to peel. Nothing unusual in that around Sewanee–to my right was the Breslin Tower, and beyond that the Shapard Tower of All Saints … Continue reading →

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“My Friend George”

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

Lou Reed, I read in the Times, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next April. Various questions arise, of course, chief among which are, Isn’t he already in there? (yes, as a member of the … Continue reading →

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The Eroticism of the Gettysburg Address

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

The androgyne of Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Republic is a deeply comic myth on the nature of eros, one that has been put to music in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (see below). I have long wondered whether the strange … Continue reading →

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Protected: Radical Visions of Hector?

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Carolina On My Mind

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Hogs and Cucumbers

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: To See A Fine Lady

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Beatings and Latin again

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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The Way We Used to Roll

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

The Glidden Auto Tour was coming through town this week, I learned, “the largest premier antique automobile touring event in the world,” according to the press release which I forwarded to the principal of the local school, a friend of … Continue reading →

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A Visit to Highlander Folk School

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

As part of Sewanee’s new “Finding Your Place” program for freshmen, my students and I today went to the nearby site of the Highlander Folk School, the populist educational facility founded by Myles Horton in 1932 that helped to midwife … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Music, Sewanee, The South | 23 Comments