Robert Christgau is a senior editor of the Village Voice, where he has been chief music critic since 1974. In addition to publishing three Consumer Guide books, he has collected his essays in Any Old Way You Choose It (Cooper Square) and Grown Up All Wrong (Harvard).

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  February 2006: The Slim Shady Essay
  How will history judge Eminem’s work?
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  February 2004: In Search of Jim Crow
  How minstrelsy shaped race relations in nineteenth-century America, and what recent upheavals in minstrelsy studies say about our attitudes today.