Ian MarshallThe Pledge of Allegiance and My Ukrainian Homeroom Teacher in Junior HighThoughts on Loving Your — and My — Country10 min read·Mar 22, 2022--3--3
Ian MarshallinInTuneQuestioning Masculinity: A Re-Reading of Stan Rogers’s “Harris and the Mare”Reconsidering What It Takes to “Be a Man” in One of Stan’s Greatest9 min read·Mar 14, 2022--1--1
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldFade Out: The Environmental Movement and Environmental Song after the Folk Rock EraOr, After the Musical Aftermath of Earth Day: Featuring Earth Songs by Johnny Cash, Loudon Wainwright, Bruce Cockburn, Dar Williams…7 min read·Mar 10, 2022----
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldThe Musical Aftermath of Earth DayOr, “Look at Mother Nature on the Run in the 1970s”: With Songs by the New Riders, Marvin Gaye, Randy Newman, John Prine, John Denver, and…16 min read·Mar 8, 2022--1--1
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldWas Sixties Enviro-Folk-Rock Simply a “Commodity Fetish”?Wherein I Wonder Just How Subversive Folk Rock Was9 min read·Mar 5, 2022----
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldFolk Rock from Silent Spring to the First Earth Day: A Year-by-Year Breakdown of the Top 40…A Timeline of Green Songs of the Sixties — And What it Reveals about Just When and How Fast the Times Were A-Changin’4 min read·Mar 2, 2022----
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldThe Soundscape of “Lay Down Your Weary Tune”Bob Dylan as (Nobel Prize-Winning!) Nature Writer — and Author of the #1 Green Song of the Folk Rock Era15 min read·Feb 28, 2022----
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldSixties Folk Rock’s Greenest Songs: #5–2Gotta Get Down to It in the Top 40 Countdown: Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell6 min read·Feb 25, 2022----
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldSixties Folk Rock’s Greenest Songs: #10–6Hitting the Top Ten in the Top 40 Countdown with Neil Young, Traffic, Fred Neil, Dylan, and Van Morrison8 min read·Feb 23, 2022----
Ian MarshallinTuning In to the Natural WorldSixties Folk Rock’s Greenest Songs: #15–11Have Another Hit (Or Five) in the Top 40 Countdown: Creedence, The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, and Three Dog Night6 min read·Feb 21, 2022----