Part 2: Janis Ian to Jimi Hendrix (1966-1970)

By PopMatters Staff

Music truly is the universal language. The best songs of protest are passed around, from movement-to-movement, era-to-era; its singers gaining multilingual fluency along the way. [17 July 2007]

The Sounds of Now: Steve Reich and the Transmogrification of the Banal

By Chadwick Jenkins

As human beings, interpretive animals that attempt to navigate the world by coming to some sort of "understanding" of it, we are addicted to purpose. [8 August 2007]

(more Variations on a Theme)

Steve Reich: Daniel Variations

By Zach Schonfeld

The acclaimed minimalist composer’s concept piece inspired by slain journalist Daniel Pearl is just as baffling in execution as it is in theory. [7 May 2008]

Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

By Matt Eberhart