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...constructed of celluloid and ink, videotape and song. It?s hard to think about New York without thinking about the work of the various artists who have, over the decades, rebuilt the city in their work, from Herman Melville to Ralph Ellison to Jay McInerney, from the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley to current-day Big Apple hip-hoppers like Nas and Jay-Z. Some works help more than just artistic rebuilding, like the one taking place on October 20th at Madison Square Garden, where former Beatle Paul McCartney will headline "The Concert for New York City," an all-star...
...York music history was preserved, rather than lost. From Tin Pan Alley in the 1800s and early 1900s to Bad Boy Records today, New York has generated quite a bit of musical history and tradition. Of course there are the obvious songs and performances: Frank Sinatra belting out "New York, New York," Billy Joel?s warmhearted "New York State of Mind," and Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five?s lyrical tourguide "New York, New York"(the lyrics to that last one: "Ah New York New York big city of dreams/ And everything in New York ain't always what...
...once said "It occurs to me that New York is about to acquire a history, that it already has its ruins. This to adorn with a little softness the harshest city in the world." Yes, we have our ruins. We also have our songwriters. In the glory days of Tin Pan Alley, so-called songpluggers used to accost vaudeville vocalists, pushing them to perform their new compositions in hopes that they would make them into hits. New York is still just as aggressive, just as hungry, when it comes to songwriting. If Sting (who has an apartment in New York...
...Third, cold war politics made for some strange bedfellows and unsavory alliances. The unintended consequences of gunshot weddings can be considerable: America's support, say, for various tin-pot despots in the name of anticommunism was not the stuff of greatness. But it is not possible to rule out working with the enemies of one's enemies, even if they are sometimes themselves illiberal and undemocratic. Already, for example, the U.S. Congress is reconsidering the policy that made it difficult for intelligence agencies to hire foreign agents with violent pasts. And it is not at all impossible that, say, Iran...
...export democracy more vigorously. I grew up in Cairo and was a journalist there for many years, and I have seen firsthand the effects of institutionalized brutality and an endemic disregard for human rights. I hope that in the future the U.S. will be less inclined to accommodate tin-pot autocrats in the interest of economic stability and more willing to use economic and diplomatic pressure to bring about a global acceptance of the freedoms we take for granted in North America. MOHAMED RAGHEB Toronto...