30. "Love & Theft" at 25!
Summary
This crossover episode of Songs of Experience and Infinity Goes Up on Trial marks the 25th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s album Love and Theft, released on September 11, 2001. Hosts Henry Bernstein and Aaron Callahan join a panel of experts, including Adam Selzer, Roberta Rakov, and Michael Glover Smith, to discuss the album’s legacy and its inextricable link to the 9/11 attacks. The conversation explores how the record’s themes of mortality and American history resonated with that historic moment, while also analyzing Eric Lott’s book of the same name and Dylan’s complex relationship with blac…
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