Elijah Wald – Writer, Musician |
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Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. And a performance blog exploring my musical repertoire with background and commentary on hundreds of songs. Plus information about my CD, Street Corner Cowboys, and other writing and album projects, including an instructional DVD on the Bahamian guitar style of Joseph Spence. There are pages about various aspects of blues, corridos, and popular music, appreciations of my father and the Japanese singer Mikami Kan, an archive with several dozen newspaper and magazine pieces on world and roots music among other topics, and whatever else seemed worth putting up here... Including a page on The Mayor of MacDougal Street, the source of the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, one on my pop music history, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, and one on The Dozens, the African American tradition of mother-insult-dueling, and its offshoots in American culture. |
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For speaking requests, musical gigs, with questions, comments... |