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Singing A Sultry Tune
February 10, 2015

From sonnets to T-Swift, love songs have brought couples together and addressed the pain that sometimes comes with courtship. We’ll talk with music historian Ted Gioia about how these tunes have changed our culture.
We're Through Being Cool
January 5, 2010

Does being cool, in effect, mean you are actually not cool at all? We’ll discuss the irony of today’s post-cool society with noted jazz critic and music historian Ted Gioia, whose new book is “The Birth (and Death) of the Cool” (Speck Press, 2009).