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Hang Down Your Head
digitizing folk music history: tu 01/10 — the “great folk scare,” part 1. In the second meeting of Digitizing Folk Music History, our seminar used the many versions of the quintessential 60s folk...
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Digital Humanities, Ralph Ellison Style
the american artist, “like the memory registers of certain computer systems.” Ralph Ellison, 1982. Thus, the ideal level of sensibility to which the American artist would address himself tends to...
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Journeys to Big Rock Candy Mountain
where the jails are made of tin, and you can bust right out just as soon as they put you in. The folk music revival—and popular music in general—leaves many trails to follow, and not all of them happy...
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What Is Folk Music? Bob Dylan Redux
a reality of a more brilliant dimension. I had already landed in an parallel universe, anyway, with more archaic principles and values; one where actions and virtues were old style and judgmental...
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Student Showcase: A Closer Look at the Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music
the tone without the scratch!: camille michelotti on the visual iconography of harry smith’s anthology. In the coming weeks, I will be featuring the digital history audio podcast projects completed by...
View ArticleSee You Later, Allen Ginsberg
allen ginsberg on what poetry is. Poetry is words that are empowered that make your hair stand on end, that you recognize instantly as being some form of subjective truth that has an objective reality...
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Student Showcase: “Tom Dooley Must Hang”—Folk Commodification
how could the kingston trio steal ‘tom dooley’ from the smothers brothers? student melissa codd explains. This is the second student showcase of digital history audio podcast projects completed by...
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Student Showcase: Traversing the Borderlands
tanner howard on folklorist juan b. rael, the New Mexican alabado, and twentieth century americanization. Juan B. Rael interviewing Manuela “Mela” Martínez, Taos, New Mexico, circa 1930. This is the...
View ArticleMusic & Protest: Review of The Republic of Rock
oded heilbronner explores music & protest in the long 1960s. A review of The Republic of Rock by Oded Heilbronner from the Journal of Contemporary History as part of his investigation of the...
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Student Showcase: Connection Through Music in the Civil Rights Movement
rebecca klein explores the sounds and cross-class politics of the early 1960s civil rights freedom songs. This is the fourth student showcase of digital history audio podcast projects completed by...
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Student Showcase: A Displaced Legacy—The Story of Omie Wise From 1808 To Now
violin in hand, julia popham teaches us about the story and significance of the ballad of omie wise, from its violent, patriarchal origins to its resurfacing in the pacifistic folk revival of the...
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Dada Has Always Existed!
dada as productive rather than destructive. Dada was not a fashion, a style, or a doctrine. It was more than a footnote to cultural history. We can better understand it as a condition, a spirit, a...
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I Have Ears and Can Hear
john cage “attempts to let sounds be themselves in a space of time.” For “art” and “music,” when anthropocentric (involved in self-expression), seem trivial and lacking in urgency to me. We live in a...
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Student Showcase: Chronicling Dylan’s Chronicles
lily orlan explores dylan as folk artist (or not). This is the sixth student showcase of digital history audio podcast projects completed by students in the 2016 edition of my Digitizing Folk Music...
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A Whiter Shade of Pale
book review of jack hamilton’s just around midnight: rock and roll and the racial imagination. Download the PDF file .
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Digitization!
northwestern libraries receive neh grant to digitize the berkeley folk music festival collection. By Drew Scott Evanston, IL— Northwestern University Libraries have received a $297,000 grant from the...
View ArticlePutting the Folk Back in Folksonomies
studying the folk music revival through digital history: teachx presentation @ northwestern university, friday, 19 may 2017. Slides and notes for a very short one-person, two-slides, three-minutes...
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Dancing Across the Proscenium: Theorizing Dance Dramaturgy
review of katherine profeta, dramaturgy in motion: at work on dance and movement performance. Michael J. Kramer, “Dancing Across the Proscenium,” Theater 47, 1 (2017) PDF. Download the PDF file .
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Making an Effort
exerting motion & emotion at hubbard street dance chicago, dance(evolve): new works festival @ mca chicago, 13 May 2017. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dance(Evolve): Julia Rhoads, Cadence. Photo:...
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