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Digitizing Folk Music History Artist Residency: Anna Roberts-Gevalt
musician, composer & artist anna roberts-gevalt @ middlebury college, 2-5 April 2019 Anna Roberts-Gevalt. The wonderful Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Vermont native and one half of Smithsonian Folkways...
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05/31/19: “A Time They Talk About”—John Wesley Harding and the Sixties...
the world of bob dylan symposium @ the tu institute for bob dylan studies, university of tulsa, 31 May 2019. Come argue with me and other Dylanologists at The World of Bob Dylan Symposium about how...
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06/06/19: Keep on Rocking in the Free World—The Transnational Politics of...
remaking american political history conference @ purdue university, 6 june 2019. I’m delighted to be on a roundtable with Randall Stephens and Katherine Jewell at the upcoming Remaking American...
View ArticleThickness of Life
[Writing] history is not to smooth the architecture formed by a set of data to which historians claim to confer coherence and meaning. On the opposite, it is to give the highest importance to the...
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The Singer From the Song
A song is a role. The singer acts a part…all good artists study a song and live with it before performing it…. There is something authentic about any person’s way of giving a song which has been...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Thesis
a simple assignment for students to explore iteration & revision. When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. — Wallace Stevens How might we encourage...
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Teaching Philosophy
My goal as a teacher is to help students develop skills of analysis and communication grounded in a deeper understanding of the past. I place questions of identity, social position, and power—of race,...
View ArticleBart Simpson Was a Steel-Drivin’ Kid
a little folk music moment from the very first season of the simpsons.
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Folk Music Show Business
I’m in the show business now. I’m not in the folk-music business. That’s where it’s at. So is Roscoe Holcomb, Jean Ritchie, Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, all the way up to President Johnson. — Bob...
View ArticleDigital Analysis vs. Communication
a possibly useful continuum for digital humanities. One of the dreams of digital humanities has been to blur the distinction between process and product. Online, the research room, the design studio,...
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Humbead’s Map Folk Music Data Viz
more d3.js experiments with humbead’s revised map of the world. Middlebury student Lambus Li continues to do fascinating digital mapping and data visualization experiments with Humbead’s Revised Map...
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Movement Is the Same Yet Different
Movement is so much a part of our daily experience that we don’t even think of it as a thing. We don’t even think of it, we just sort of do it. But if you thought about it, say, how do you walk? I...
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Student Showcase: Atomic Folk—The Folk Music Revival and the Bomb
rhys glennon explores musical references to the atomic bomb. Joan Baez supposedly (and probably apocryphally) claimed she sang “to troubled intellectuals with the Bomb on their minds” in the folk...
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Student Showcase: Nina Simone—The Life, Legacy, and Activism of the High...
gabby meeks explores the life and work of nina simone through historical inquiry and cultural criticism. “Where’s my tambourine,” Nina Simone joked as she introduced “Little Liza Jane” at the 1960...
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Student Showcase: Jammin’ with Jerry
eleanor pontikes probes the folk origins of jerry garcia. “Me, play rock and roll?” Jerry Garcia exclaims at the start the song “Trouble in Mind,” sung in a duet with future songwriting partner Robert...
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Student Showcase: Blue Crystal Fire—Transposing Robbie Basho
madison middleton investigates the strange and spiritual career of robbie basho. “It dawned on me, music is supposed to say something, music is supposed to do something,” Robbie Basho explained about...
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Book Review—The State of US Intellectual History
commons or labyrinth? Over at the Society for US Intellectual History Book Reviews section and reprinted below, my review of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times, eds....
View ArticleConquering Space in the Sixties
The 1960s was all about the conquest of space, outer and inner, astronauts, acid trips, social revolt, one long strange return of the repressed trip… — Greg Tate, “Why the Hell Ornette Went All Up In...
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