People's Music for the Soul

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/peoples-music-for-the-soul/

Summertime and the Reading is Easy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/27/summertime-and-the-reading-is-easy/

Speaking and organizing......

As I get closer to retiring from my full time position as a library worker, I am looking for other ways to supplement my retirement check. One of the things I am hoping to do is talk to groups more. My talks are usually informal presentations/discussions of radical political and cultural history, considerations of the present and potential futures. If your group, class or whatever are interested, please contact me via Messenger. Here is a link to a talk I gave in Boston about 3 1/2 years ago....just an example

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Ron Jacobs presents: Revolution in the Air? The 1960s Become the 1970s and the S**t Hits the Fan

The end of the 1960s saw the intensification of…

Bargaining for Salvation in the Devil’s Arena

According to the legend, Jes’ Grew comes and goes. Its peaks in the past one hundred years include the jazz age and the age of Rock and roll and Rhythm and Blues. One might argue that certain dance music of the current period might also be a hearkening of the Jes’ Grew infestation, but I think its insistence on mechanization renders its inclusion unlikely. However, Jes’ Grew will never die. And it gestates in festivals like Warren Haynes annual benefit show in Asheville, North Carolina. If it doesn’t save your soul, at least it makes you feel like living for another day.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/16/bargaining-for-salvation-in-the-devils-arena/

Springsteen: Rockin’ the House in Albany, NY

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/rockin-the-house-in-albany-ny/

Standing Naked: Bob Dylan and Jesus

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/standing-naked-bob-dylan-and-jesus/

Springtime Sounds for a Spring Barely Sprung

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/03/springtime-sounds-for-a-spring-barely-sprung/

Elvis Presley:Southern Man

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/elvis-southern-man/

Haven't We Had Enough?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/20/havent-we-had-enough/

A Struggle Composed, A Struggle Performed

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/17/a-struggle-composed-a-struggle-performed/

Another Self Portrait--Bob Dylan Revisited

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/11/dylans-take-revisited/

Punk, Politics and the 1980s

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/14/punk-politics-and-1980s/

Springsteen in Washington

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/21/springsteen-in-washington/