This year’s most glaring cultural oversight can be found in a New York Times feature this week entitled The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters. The very title begs trouble. To pull off such a list successfully with the fewest possible arrows from readers, one would have to proceed with enormous sensitivity, caution and due diligence.
Unfortunately, …
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