Goodbye to Rock & Soul Lit

A course ends, but the music goes on and on

Terry Barr
The Riff
Published in
8 min readMay 3, 2024

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Photo by Rita Morais on Unsplash

There have been days when the music appeared to die, and on some of these days, I’ve had to shake my body to the ground really hard because I couldn’t believe the convergence of my own rhythms and the death of a former mellotroned star.

Our semester just ended, and with it, perhaps the last time I’ll be teaching my Rock…

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Terry Barr
The Riff

I write about music, culture, equality, and my Alabama past in The Riff, The Memoirist, Prism and Pen, Counter Arts, and am an editor for Plethora of Pop.