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"  1. &amp;quot;The Grey Goose,&amp;quot; by Burl Ives &amp;quot;Chapter two begins with Miriam contemplating this song, an innocuous childhood ditty which seems to her full of allegorical portents. Burl Ives was a victim of anti-Communist blacklisting but also regarded, by purists on the Left, as a fink\u2014one of those who went before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities and testified.&amp;quot; 2. &amp;quot;Doesn&amp;#039;t Lenny Live Here Anymore,&amp;quot; by Phil Ochs &amp;quot;Ochs, who fulfilled the terms of &amp;quot;topical folksinger&amp;quot; in ways that surpassed even Dylan, became a tragic figure when he tried to extend his career beyond those terms. The results, like this one, an epic of Greenwich Village portraiture, were often brilliant, but no one was listening.&amp;quot; 3. &amp;quot;Halloween Parade,&amp;quot; by Lou Reed &amp;quot;No songwriter captures the outerborough kid&amp;#039;s permanent infatuation with Manhattan better than Lou Reed. This song gives one of my chapters its title, and a whole lot of its atmosphere too.&amp;quot; 4. &amp;quot;Capital (It Fails Us Now),&amp;quot; by Gang of Four &amp;quot;For someone my age, Gang of Four&amp;#039;s early recordings were a bracing suggestion that Marxism could be more than a dirty word.&amp;quot; 5. &amp;quot;Talkin&amp;#039; Hava Negeilah Blues,&amp;quot; by Bob Dylan &amp;quot;Bob Dylan gives an early glimpse of his secret Jewish superpowers, at this point something he&amp;#039;s only able to treat as a kid-gloves joke.&amp;quot; 6. &amp;quot;Winter In America,&amp;quot; by Gil Scott-Heron &amp;quot;No other song, it seems to me, better captures the emotional texture of the 1970s leftist&amp;#039;s certainty that a long eclipse was coming. And so it was.&amp;quot; 7. &amp;quot;Motherless Children,&amp;quot; by Dave Van Ronk &amp;quot;The quintessential Village folkie was a kid from Queens, and he felt the blues deeper than anyone. Van Ronk&amp;#039;s version of &amp;quot;Motherless Children&amp;quot; was a keynote recording for a couple of earlier novels for me, but hasn&amp;#039;t worn out.&amp;quot; 8. &amp;quot;Communist Daughter,&amp;quot; by Neutral Milk Hotel  &amp;quot;No comment.&amp;quot; 9. &amp;quot;Meet the Mets,&amp;quot; by Yo La Tengo &amp;quot;Does everybody know that Yo La Tengo took its name from a famous anecdote from the early, bungling years of the Mets&amp;#039; franchise (as oppose to the recent, bungling years, that is)?&amp;quot; 10. &amp;quot;Everything Must Change,&amp;quot; by Nina Simone &amp;quot;Simone&amp;#039;s voice strikes the perfect midpoint between defiant glory and tragic abiding. If I could have her sing the whole book aloud, I would.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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