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How translator Natasha Wimmer brought Roberto Bolaño posthumous fame.
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How translator Natasha Wimmer brought Roberto Bolaño posthumous fame.
Why do we still read a book about a cranky guy who lived in the woods?
This Woman’s Work is a series of stories from Classic Album Sundays and Studio 360, highlighting classic albums by female artists that have made a lasting impact on music and pop culture.
This time, we focus on Lady Sings the Blues by legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. It was released in 1956 to coincide with her autobiography of the same name. By this point in her career, when she was just in her early 40s, Holiday’s voice had taken on a fragile and worn quality. Hardship, abusive relationships, and addiction had taken their toll on her famous instrument.
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The Great American Coffee Break was a 1952 invention, conceived by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau to boost lagging sales. Promoted as a way to get office workers to take a few minutes away from the desk, boost morale, and improve work, the bureau worked with a $2 million budget. It worked. Within 4 years, three quarters of U.S. employees were taking coffee breaks.
Part of the Studio 360 story concerning “Mugmates,” a song that was part of a larger effort in the 1950s and 1960s conducted by the Bureau, and was supposed to boost coffee consumption among teenagers, and get them to stop drinking cola.
The quality of the coffee purveyed and the manner in which it was brewed (neither of which did any justice to what we think of as “coffee” today) had the coffee producers worried; enter the ad campaigns!
“The Secret History of Eddie Hodges’ Forgotten 1961 Song, ‘Mugmates’” by Evan Chung.
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These are the stories that introduced America to its dark side.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqVtK5AYnI) Happy Birthday to Studio 60 host and Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen! https://youtu.be/WdqVtK5AYnI
Sha Na Na at -- Woodstock?! I didn’t know, either. But, I never watched the movie, so, I just missed it.
Studio 360′s Kurt Andersen talks to the founding brothers of the group about where they got their start (Columbia University) and what they started (50s Nostalgia writ large) and whether they were responsible for punk rock.
Story page with audio and video links.
