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Fall 2015 Course: The Sixties – From Memory To History
new adult education master’s level course, fall 2015 @ northwestern university. THE SIXTIES: FROM MEMORY TO HISTORY Robert Rauschenberg, Signs (1970). Dr. Michael J. Kramer Visiting Assistant...
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What Do You See?
the kassonian art of cultural observation: talk delivered for “cultural history and its publics – a symposium on the occasion of the retirement of john kasson” @ unc – chapel hill, 3 October 2015....
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Handy Rock and Roll Reminder
You really don’t need musical notation for rock and roll. I always said it was all hand signals and threats. — Elvis Costello
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A Tiny Banner
…against the inhumanities of the technocracy: unfurling theodore roszak’s countercultural social criticism — talk at 2015 USIH Conference. Expanded edition of talk: Download the PDF file . “A Tiny...
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Exhibitionists
reflections on the urge to create digital history as online museum gallery. “Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial” — Bob Dylan Digital historians want to turn the Internet into a museum. I...
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Fan of Fandom
“carrying the flag of enthusiasm.” To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness. I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not...
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David Farber’s Age of Great Dreams
mapping out a book’s structure & argument. My students in The Sixties: From Memory to History and I tried to map out the structure and argument of David Farber’s The Age of Great Dreams, which...
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Presenting the Past: Using Technology to Enhance Learning in Lecture and...
Presenting the Past: Using Technology to Enhance Learning in Lecture and Discussion Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 12PM (Lunch), 12:30 – 1:50 PM (Workshop) Harris 108, Northwestern University YouTube...
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Anti-Vaxer
walgreens pharmacy has a message for you. One can trace in advertising a narrative pattern which clearly shows the working of this new vaccine. — Roland Barthes
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The Legacy of Alan Lomax
interview at american libraries magazine website. George M. Eberhart interviewed Nathan Salzburg and me for American Libraries Magazine website: “The Legacy of Alan Lomax.” We’ll be at the Old Town...
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Name That Tune
Alan Lomax recording in Dominica, 1962. Photograph: Antoinette Marchand. alan lomax on what a song is. A song is a complex human action—music plus speech, relating performers to a larger group in a...
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Appealing
SF Mime Troupe ‘Appeal’ Party, 06 November 1965. it was fifty years ago today. Fifty years ago this evening, the S.F. Mime Troupe’s ‘Appeal’ Party took place in San Francisco, hard on the heels of the...
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Digitizing Folk Music History Seminar
putting the folksonomy in digital humanities this winter quarter @ northwestern university. Digitizing Folk Music History HUM 325-4 / HISTORY 395 / AMER_ST 310 T Th 3:30-4:50 pm Michael Kramer...
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Mapping the Internet
a la kevin kelly. In US Digital Culture Since World War II: The Computerized Society, my students sketched their personal maps of the Internet in homage to Kevin Kelly’s project. This is a great...
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Tunesmithing History
tin pan alley imitation for historical inquiry. What does it mean to enter into the past? One thing it means is to defamiliarize the present. In my US Popular Music History lecture course, which I...
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NUDHL 2015-16 Meeting #01 Twitter Storify
Francesca Tataranni discussing her Ancient Rome in Chicago digital humanities course at Northwestern. northwestern university digital humanities laboratory 15-16 meeting #01, storified. A Discussion...
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Take It Personally
students imagine new apple products to study the history of the personal computer. To study the history of the “personal” computer in Digital Culture Since World War II: The Computerized Society,...
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Approaching Digital History Seminar Storify
tweets from approaching digital history methods seminar @ northwestern university, fall 2015. Approaching Digital History [View the story “Approaching Digital History Seminar @ Northwestern, Fall...
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US Digital Culture Since WWII: The Computerized Society Fall 2015 Storify
tweets from US digital culture since wwii: the computerized society @ northwestern university, fall 2015, storified. US Digital Culture Since WWII: The Computerized Society, Fall 2015. [View the story...
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