When I started out as a music journalist at the end of the 1980s it was...
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In their heyday the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties...
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I just feel energized when I am around young talented people. There is...
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Obviously there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing....
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.