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Speak For Yourself
gisèle vienne/puppentheater halle/dennis cooper, the ventriloquists convention @ mca stage, 14 November 2015. The object thus emerges as the ideal mirror: for the images it reflects succeed one...
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Beyond Sheer Shearer
kristina isabelle dance company, sybil shearer: maker of the past, muse of the present @ newberry library, 11 November 2015. If choreography knows something, it is that an archive does not store: it...
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The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Some of the 300 troops of the 9th Infantry Division scheduled for departure from South Vietnam line up to board aircraft bound for Hawaii, August 27, 1969. (AP Photo) douglas bradley & craig werner...
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One Two Many
Blind Tiger Society. khecari, blind tiger society, madshak @ links hall, 19 December 2015. It was a dance triple feature, but the theme of the evening was the duet. In Ring Sour, Khecari’s Jonathan...
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Winter 2016 Course: Digitizing Folk Music History
Digitizing Folk Music History Dr. Michael J. Kramer History & American Studies, Northwestern University Course Number Hist 395-0-33/Amer St 310-0-23/Hum 325-04-01 Time Tu-Th 3:30 pm – 4:50 pm...
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Winter 2016 Course: US Popular Music History
US Popular Music History Michael J. Kramer, History and American Studies, Northwestern University Winter Quarter 2016 Course Info HISTORY 300-0-32 (25050) Time nesmit/Th, 12:30-1:50pm, occasional...
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Upcoming Keynote Talk: Inside Outside – On the Significance of the Trips...
upcoming event: keynote talk @ the 1960s revisited: the significance of the trips festival symposium, contemporary jewish museum, san francisco, friday, 22 january 2016, 1 pm. I am honored to deliver...
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Digitizing Folk Music History: Introduction Music Mix
reviving the history of the folk revival for current college students. In Digitizing Folk Music History, we start out doing a lot of listening. Here is the playlist students tune in to at the start of...
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Folk Revival Timeline Time Again
starting to develop a “master narrative” of the folk revival, digitizing folk music history seminar 2016 edition. click images for larger versions.
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Sketching the Folk Revival
what is folk music, exactly? students entering my digitizing folk music history seminar sketch their sense of the folk revival. At the start of our seminar this term, my Digitizing Folk Music History...
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Inside Outside: On the Significance of the Trips Festival
Here is the text and images for a talk delivered at The 1960s Revisited Symposium @ the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco on Friday, 22 January 2016. “If I were to tell you that an event of...
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Tom Dooley Studies
hang down your head…for some serious cultural analysis: using tom dooley to track the shifting styles and cultural contexts of the us folk revival. Drawing upon Robert Cantwell’s careful recounting of...
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Are You Experienced?
continuing at the aMID festival @ links hall, saturday, 30 January 2016. Stop. Return. Continue. In Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts’s “Zero Return,” a Chicago extension of the group’s project “Number...
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Spotify Playlists for Historical Analysis
using track selection and annotation for student learning. My US Popular Music History students will be developing and embedding Spotify playlists in their assignments this week. They complete the...
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Citizen Folklorist: Alan Lomax’s Musical Journeys
video of chicago humanities festival event on alan lomax, 4 November 2015.
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Folklore and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Neil Rosenberg. Photo: Terri Rosenberg. folklore & history: an interdisciplinary conversation for faculty and graduate students @ nicholas d. chabraja center for historical studies, northwestern...
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Berkeley and Beyond in the Folk Revival: A Public Conversation & Concert with...
Terri and Neil V. Rosenberg – Some Swell. Photograph: R. West. a public conversation & concert with neil v. and terri rosenberg @ northwestern university library forum room, 26 february 2016. —...
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NUDHL Digital Humanities Reading Group
NUDHL DIGITAL HUMANITIES READING GROUP <<All welcome! No DH expertise or experience required! Attend one or all gatherings.>> BETWEEN HUMANITIES AND THE DIGITAL eds. Patrik Svensson and...
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Dancing Circles Around You
Faye Driscoll Group, Thank You For Coming: Attendance Photo: Maria Baranova. ingri fiksdal, cosmic body @ mca, 6 february 2016 and faye driscoll, thank you for coming @ mca, 13 february 2016. The...
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Performance Curation in Practice Now
two-day symposium for rising performance & visual arts curators. [<a href=”//storify.com/kramermj/performance-curation-in-practice-now” target=”_blank”>View the story “Performance Curation in...
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