Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

Expressions of African-American music on CD—and all that jazz
March 7, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Jazz is widely recognized as perhaps the only musical art form originating in the United States, thanks largely to its African-American inventors.
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A re-radicalized Beethoven ‘Fidelio’ for the Black Lives Matter era
March 1, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon

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Docudrama ‘Detained’ exposes true stories of mass immigrant deportation
February 25, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Immigrants across America who might years ago have had some minor brush with the law are being rounded up, torn from their families.
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‘Power of Sail’: Fighting Nazis in the Ivy League (or inviting them in)
February 23, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
This is truly what theater and the arts need to be doing now to educate, enlighten, and awaken.
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‘Only an Octave Apart’: Celebrating queerness in opera and cabaret mashup CD
February 22, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
We are dealing here with sophisticated artists of vast professional experience and accomplishment who are sensitive to “the promise of living” in all its complexity.
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‘Legacy of a Garage Band’: A bittersweet Chicano reminiscence of lost youth
February 17, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
In many ways Legacy is a coming-of-age story.
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For African-American History Month: Three vocal CDs in review
February 14, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
It seems like a very apt project for interfaith and interracial collaboration.
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‘The Wayland Rudd Collection’: When state power was harnessed to combat racism
February 4, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Imagine a world where a powerful global entity, leader of a worldwide bloc of socialist nations, poured its intellectual, artistic, journalistic, and organizational resources into the fight against racism and national chauvinism. Such was the Soviet...
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