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Berkeley Folk Music Festival TV Footage 1968
glimpses of the berkeley folk music festival, summer 1968. Great, tantalizing TV news footage of the 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival from the San Fransisco State University’s Bay Area Television...
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Berkeley and Beyond: Neil V. and Terri Rosenberg
in conversation and concert at northwestern university, 26 february 2016. It was such a pleasure to have folklorist and musician Neil V. Rosenberg and his wife Terri join us at Northwestern. Neil...
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Whatever It Is
whatever it is festival @ sf state, 30 September-2 October 1966. What you’re look at now is a sunshine grass dance. Anyone knows what that is. What are extra-sensory…? No. — Art Brown, tv reporter...
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How Pop Cultural Criticism Matters
greil marcus on finding the meaningful in the seemingly trivial. People are often told that the things they care about—the music they love, the movies they watch—are fundamentally trivial, says...
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This ‘Trane Is Bound For Glory
urban bush women, walking with ‘trane @ columbia college dance center, 20 february 2016. It isn’t about trying to imitate or be John Coltrane, but find the individual and collective voice inside him....
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Horns of the Dilemma
The cast of Curious Theatre Branch in Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. ionesco & williams between the human & the animal — curious theatre branch, rhinoceros @ curious theatre branch, 27 february 2016...
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Look At This, It’s Wonderful
The critic should write to say, not “look how much I’ve read,” but “look at this, it’s wonderful.” If the young feel compelled to come and see your tomb, there should be something good written on it....
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Line Dancing
assembling and assessing historical narratives on the digital timeline. The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is...
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Distorting History (To Make It More Accurate)
Ellery Stritzinger’s deformance of Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter publicity image, for Digitizing Folk Music History seminar. artifictions for artifacts: digital deformance as a mode of historical...
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Fool’s Gold
greil marcus on criticism as getting carried away. I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled, to take an idea too far, to bet too...
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Intellectual History, “Even When Wah-Wah Pedals Are Involved”
casey blake reviews the republic of rock in modern intellectual history. A very powerful review (paywall) of The Republic of Rock, with a sophisticated and sharp critique of how I address citizenship...
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Movement Politics: On The Seldoms’ RockCitizen
the seldoms rock citizenship, from the sixties to now. Below are program notes for The Seldoms, RockCitizen, which premieres at the Storefront Theater in downtown Chicago from 5/5-15/2016. Tickets and...
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The Problems of Novel Theater
Teatrocinema, Historia de Amor (Love Story). blair thomas & co., moby dick @ mca stage, 2 april 2016 & teatrocinema, historia de amor (love story) @ mca stage, 10 april 2016. Consider the...
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Getting In the Way
“no nazi is going to march here, it’s not okay.” You’ve been sitting much too long There’s a permanent crease in your right and wrong Stand There’s a midget standing tall And a giant beside him about...
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Reissue
Vinyl, on HBO. on season one of hbo’s vinyl. Vinyl, which just completed its first season on HBO, wants to catch the flavor of decadent 1970s rock music industry culture, but what it really wants to...
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The Seldoms, RockCitizen Opens Tonight
The Seldoms in RockCitizen. It’s an honor to get to work as dramaturg and historian-in-residence with The Seldoms on RockCitizen, a multimedia dance theater piece that explores the social movements of...
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New Course, Fall 2016: Cultural Criticism & the Contemporary Museum
Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience, exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Photo: Nathan Keay). new course for fall 2016 @ northwestern university: cultural criticism and...
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Theodore Roszak, Digital Humanist
theodore roszak criticizes “the electronic stitchery of a cultural crazy quilt,” 1972. Objective knowing gives a new assembly line system of knowledge, one which relieves us of the necessity to...
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