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David Hajdu

David Hajdu

David Hajdu is a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and author of Love for Sale: Pop Music in America (2016) and other books. icon

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How Christianity Created Rock ’n’ Roll

By David Hajdu

In the spring of 1998, in a Seinfeld episode called “The Burning,” Elaine, sitting with Jerry and George at the diner, tells them she had just borrowed her on-again ...

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