Popular Music as Pragmatism: Notes on Cornel West, Clyde Woods, and Listening to Intellectual History  by Kurt Newman This post was spurred on by a colleague’s request for some recommendations of songs to play for students in a twentieth century US history class. I hastily assembled an archive about 437 Youtube clips, and sent her the links. Then I began to feel guilty. Many of the examples I had sent were not self-explanatory. Perhaps I had not done my friend a favor at all. So I offered to write up some annotations, and that became the germinal idea for this Read more