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Our site is a work-in-progress dedicated to the ART of rock music.  Its premise is that when Dylan plugged in at Newport in 1965, Shakespeare was let loose in the alley and that beauty and truth are the same whether they echo from an orchestra pit, the mouths of poets, or three chords and an electric guitar.

See our syllabus for more,

which describes the best course you never had.

From Classic Rock to Hip Hop . . .

June brings the Doors! And July brings Summer Break!!! After all, this is academia, you know.

MAY BRINGS NOT FLOWERS OR EVEN A FLOWER CHILD BUT PUNK ROCK POETESS PATTI SMITH . . .  Check out the blog for the daily dose of her.

See MULTIMEDIA page for vintage videos from Springsteen’s St. Paul show in 1977.   Our videos are from the master.

Download our Super Bowl Podcast

on the Who’s “My Generation” from the “Podcasts” page

“As a 19 year old – with My Generation – I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. At 64, I now want to take on aging and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock ‘n’ roll”

-PT August 2009