A Song and a Mood

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Has It Ever Been Enough?
Listening in 2025
Dec 17, 2025 • Court Carney
On My Way Home
Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Narratives of Reinvention
Dec 9, 2025 • Court Carney
“Conceptual Composite of Multiple Projects”
What the last few weeks have taught me, or what I enjoyed this summer break.
Jul 31, 2025 • Court Carney
Mad Men, Ten Years Later
“When did music become so important?”
May 17, 2025 • Court Carney
Self-Winding
Christian Marclay's "The Clock"
Jan 8, 2025 • Court Carney
I Mean to Tell You
The Music of 2024
Dec 26, 2024 • Court Carney
Reckoning with the Devil
Book Launch
Sep 17, 2024 • Court Carney
You chose a giant step
BEE THOUSAND at Thirty
Jun 21, 2024 • Court Carney
A Song and a Mood
short-form cultural criticism with an eye towards history and music
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