For such an innocuous word in most contexts “folk” is as disparaging a tag as there is in popular music, due in no small part to its well-meaning but painfully earnest dalliance with protest music.

For those in Chicago, we encourage you to attend Sarah Jaffe’s discussion about her book with Dania Rajendra on Tuesday, September 10 at 6:30 p.m. CT. You can register for it here. In the following ...

Sarah Jaffe has spent her entire career running away from country music. “I think that was my knee-jerk reaction because I'm from Texas,” the New York-based indie singer-songwriter, who came up in the ...

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On this week's All Songs Considered, Bob kicks off the show with The Juan MacLean's "A Place Called Space," an ecstatic dance-rock number from the group's upcoming album In A Dream. Seeking to find a ...

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The versatile Texas singer-songwriter mixes spiky synth-pop with softer, slower-burning reflections on the way human beings interact. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is ...

Big bill this Saturday at the Granada: Sarah Jaffe returns to town to play with Seryn, who will be performing in office here at D this Friday, so keep your eyes out for that video. We have a pair of ...

Kids adore humungous, dramatic, generally impractical career aspirations, and Sarah Jaffe was no exception. She once wanted to be a professional basketball player, preferably suiting up for the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Sarah Jaffe is an Author with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Speech as a Fellow for the Nation Institute. Author and journalist Sarah ...