Earl Robinson
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Black Crepe, Red Myth
Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train left Washington to take his remains home to Springfield 150 years ago today. Among the commemorative works about the Lincoln cortège is one that suits this blog perfectly: The Lonesome Train. It was a 25-minute radio opera written in 1942 by Earl Robinson, a self-described “working class Communist composer.” Robinson and…
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July Feature: A Response
Taken to Task. “What’s Going on Here?” by B. O. Goodbody rebuts what your editor wrote about “the great American folk scare.” It’s at the top left, the Pages list, in the Guest Essay Archive.
Painting the Culture Red 