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11:28am
My article on that major rock 'n' roll exhibition in Paris is in today's Sunday Times. I make a passing reference to Frank Sinatra's disdain for the teen rebels. Benjamin Schwarz expands on that theme in a subscription-only piece in the Atlantic, examining the singer's sublime burst of creativitity in the Fifties:
On his hugely popular and artistically glorious Capitol albums, Sinatra expanded and enlivened the repertory of standard American songs... With his clear, relaxed enunciation and sublime phrasing, he also codified the sound and rhythm of casually elegant spoken American...
