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Janis Joplin at the 1963 Monterey Folk Festival
the 1967 pop festival was not janis’s first time on stage at monterey, as this image from the berkeley folk music festival collection shows. Janis Joplin moved from local to national, and indeed...
View ArticleSyllabus: Situation Critical—Writing Arts & Cultural Criticism in the Digital...
Online @ Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY Brockport, 13-17 July 2020 Instructor Dr. Michael J. Kramer Overview Interested in writing more effectively about the arts and culture in multiple modes, from...
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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,...
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Chuck Berry at the 1965 Berkeley Blues Festival
from the digital berkeley folk music festival collection. his heart’s beating rhythm and his soul keeps a-singing the blues. A few of the wonderful performance and portrait shots of Chuck Berry at the...
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june 2020 edition. Sounds The Californian Century, BBC Radio 4Nina, RadiolabThe Mekons, ExquisiteBob Dylan, Rough and Rowdy WaysChris Corsano, Everything About It Video (excerpt) (h/t Jesse...
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Talkin’ Folk Music—Panel Discussions @ the 1959 Berkeley Folk Music Festival
Jesse Fuller, Merritt Herring, Jimmy Driftwood, Sam Hinton, Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, Jimmy Driftwood, Pete Seeger, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott talk folk music at the 1959 Berkeley Folk Music...
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Mance Lipscomb @ the 1961 Berkeley Folk Music Festival
From the berkeley folk music festival project. Mance Lipscomb @ the 1961 Berkeley Folk Music Festival Jubilee Concert in the Greek Amphitheater, University of California campus. Photograph: Cliff...
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