About Jody Rosen
Jody Rosen is Slate's music critic and the author of White Christmas: The Story of an American Song.
Songs of Atonement
By Jody Rosen September 18, 2007
As pop song themes go, atonement is right up there with the biggies: sex, puppy love, devil worship. Songs of penance are especially ubiquitous in American popular music, and small wonder. So much American pop flows out straight out of … Read More