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  <title>In search of Eva Tanguay, the first rock star.</title>
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  <author>Jody Rosen</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:04:31 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Victor Hugo Lives!</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Composers are always setting to music the words of great poets, but does the music give us any better understanding of the poetry? There is the case of Victor Hugo, a poet of long ago--born in France in 1802, died in 1885--who in recent years has somehow risen ghostily from his grandiose patriot's tomb in the Pantheon to become, in our late 20th century, the poet of the hour, so far as music goes.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/3524/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Paul Berman</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 1997 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Plain Folk</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Harry Smith (1923-1991) was a self-created character, deserving of a novel no one has yet written. Small, gnomelike, with an acerbic, high-pitched voice, he was a tramp scholar who, in a peripatetic life on the fringes, became a recognized authority on Seminole fabrics, Ukrainian Easter eggs, and the ubiquity of string figures in the world's cultures. He was a record producer, an adept of black magic, and an avant-garde filmmaker who pioneered, among other things, the kind of collage animation later made famous by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam. He began collecting 78-rpm recordings in the early 1940s, acquiring thousands of "race" and "hillbilly" works from the junk shops of the Pacific Northwest before they could be melted down, their shellac recuperated for the war effort.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/3523/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Luc Sante</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 1997 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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