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Event: What Is Dance Dramaturgy?
a conversation about dance dramaturgy, 12 May 2016, 6-7:30 pm, northwestern university. Since 2012, I have served as dramaturg and historian-in-residence for The Seldoms as they develop dance theater...
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Event: A Body Bridges Past to Present
The Seldoms in Power Goes, which uses the presidency of lyndon johnson to explore power, persuasion, & politics then and now. Photo: William Frederking. a body bridges past to present:...
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Theodore Roszak, Digital Humanist, Part 2
theodore roszak is on my wavelength. The trouble with qualities: they will not be added and subtracted. Quantities can be counted (which is objective); qualities must be evaluated (which is...
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Countercultural Control Data Institute
right on! an early moment of counterculture to cyberculture in the back pages of creem magazine, detroit, ca. 1969. An ad for the Control Data Institute in Creem magazine, circa 1969, reads: Computer...
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A Madness Most Discreet
stendhal on music fanaticism. It is because we can never understand the whys and wherefores of our feelings that even the wisest men are fanatical about such things as music. — Stendhal, On Love
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The Digital Humanities Reader
David Lusk, Figure in a Book After, circa 2010. down with users, up with readers: a provocation on digital humanities reception. The task of naming belongs to every reader. — Albert Manguel One shift...
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When Mississippi John Hurt’s Head Moved
Mississippi John Hurt, Sam Hinton, and Doc Watson, Greek Theater, University of California, Berkeley, 1964. Photographer probably Kelly Hart. remixing an image of mississippi john hurt at the 1964...
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This Land Is…Not As It Seems
geocoding the berkeley folk music festival and visualizing the us folk music revival. In Digitizing Folk Music History, students use digital technologies to explore the spatial history of the folk...
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Basses Backward
folk music creativity, or dave van ronk & mississippi john hurt backstage at the gaslight. Dave Van Ronk @ the gaslight, 1964. I had been playing John’s ‘Spike Driver’s Blues’ ever since the mid...
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Face the Music
Imogen Poots as Kelly Ann on Roadies. the emotional economy of cameron crowe’s roadies. The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. — Philip...
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New Fall 2016 Course Syllabus: Situation Critical
Situation Critical: Digital Cultural Criticism and the Contemporary Museum Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience, exhibition at MCA Chicago, 2010-2011 (Photo: Nathan Keay). “…A statue has...
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Fall 2016 Course: The Computerized Society
US Digital Culture Since World War II: The Computerized Society Dr. Michael J. Kramer Visiting Assistant Professor, History and American Studies Co-Director, NU Digital Humanities Laboratory,...
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Patrick Burke Reviews The Republic of Rock
“…a groundbreaking study highly recommended to any reader interested in 1960s rock or the role of music in the Vietnam conflict.” A thoughtful review in the Journal of the Society for American Music of...
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After Midnight
khecari, the retreat @ indian boundary park field house, 19 november 2016. Khecari, The Retreat. Photo: Dan Merlo. We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a...
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Transcultura Portrait
A quick video “portrait” about my participation in the Transcultura: Digital Transatlantic Cultural History project.
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Taming the Wild West Festival
tv footage of tom donahue discussing the cancelled 1969 wild west festival. Tom Donahue and other organizers of the Wild West Festival, Press Conference, 6 August 1969, photograph from Aquarius Weekly....
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Winter 2017 Course: Digitizing Folk Music History
syllabus for digitizing folk music history, 2017 edition. Dr. Michael J. Kramer History & American Studies, Northwestern University Overview Acoustic guitars, camp fires, overly sincere singers,...
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Winter 2017 Course: US Popular Music History
surveying the hits, cultural history style. US Popular Music History Chuck Berry. Northwestern University, Winter Quarter 2017 Professor Michael J. Kramer, History and American Studies Description This...
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