Malamini Jobarteh and Dembo Konte: Cheddo

Malamini Jobarteh and Dembo Konte: Cheddo

When does a song stop being a song? And now we are here at the end of the week and the final installment of this series of posts I was asked to write for No Song Is Safe From Us. To paraphrase Frank Loesser, it’s been a long week, but I’ve really enjoyed writing...
Ned Rorem: Visits to St. Elizabeth’s

Ned Rorem: Visits to St. Elizabeth’s

Marrying Words to Music  I began this series for the No Song is Safe From Us blog with an attempt to define what a song is at a time when the word is widely used in everyday speech to connote all music and also to attempt to try to understand...
Dock Boggs: Sugar Baby

Dock Boggs: Sugar Baby

Can Song Be Explained in a World Where Everything’s a Song? Having become a huge fan of NYFOS only somewhat recently (within the last four seasons), I was thrilled to be asked to contribute a week of posts to No Song is Safe from Us. But I must confess to feeling...