Seven Curses

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Research Article| June 01 2023 Seven Curses Michael Boyce Gillespie Michael Boyce Gillespie Michael Boyce Gillespie is an associate professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. His research interests include black visual and expressive culture, film theory, visual historiography, popular music, and contemporary art. He is the author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (Duke University Press, 2016) and co-editor with Lisa Uddin of Black One Shot, an art criticism series on ASAP/J. His recent writing has appeared in Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, liquid blackness, and Ends of Cinema. He was the consulting producer on The Criterion Collection releases of Deep Cover and Shaft. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 32–38. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.32 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Boyce Gillespie; Seven Curses. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 32–38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.32 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search They were not cowards and we are not heroes. We are mourners.Susan Sontag1The current saber-rattling is probably giving him more than a slight case of déjà vu right about now. This is where he came in, way back when, our freewheelin’ troubadour, with his “Talkin’ World War III Blues,” his “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” his “Masters of War.” Before 9.11.01, Love and Theft was an abstract expressionist painting Dylan could never have intended to carry a topical frame. Funny what a little moonlight can do: Now poets are bringing us the news. Before that fateful Tuesday, Love and Theft could not have been so easily read as Dylan’s contribution to the literature of the apocalypse.Greg Tate2 September 11, 2001. The day Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft was released. As Greg Tate’s review of the album that ran in the Village Voice two weeks later made... You do not currently have access to this content.