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Chalk Dust & Rainfall
The novel form, capacious and elastic as it is, nevertheless requires that ideas and emotions—all abstractions, really—be pressed and transformed, passed through the fine sieve of the material world...
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Open Channel
There is a vitality, a life force, all energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique…. It is your...
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What Are These Things I Scribble?
And in truth what are these things I scribble, other than grotesques and monstrous bodies, made of various parts, without any certain figure, or any other than accidental order, coherence, or...
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Stand & Deliver
recent chicago dances, in the balance. Damon Green (left) and fellow dancers in Paige Cunningham Caldarella, Verge (2017). Balance was vital, but it was never a still point with the dancer rigidly...
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At the 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival with KPIX News
“different people sure approach folk music differently”: kpix’s ed arnow on the scene at the 1968 berkeley folk music festival. KPIX News report by Ed Arnow from July 6th 1968 featuring scenes of...
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Syllabus: US Popular Music History Fall 2017
US POPULAR MUSIC HISTORY Northwestern University, Fall Quarter 2017 Professor Michael J. Kramer, History & American Studies Description This course examines the historical significance of popular...
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Syllabus: Digitizing Folk Music History Fall 2017
Digitizing Folk Music History Dr. Michael J. Kramer History & American Studies, Northwestern University Overview This research seminar brings new digital and multimedia tactics of analysis and...
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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. A consistent theme in all my courses is engagement with primary...
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US History Surveys US History Since 1865 US History Since 1893 US History Since 1945 Lecture Courses and Seminars US Cultural History, Civil War to the Present US Intellectual History, Civil War to the...
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A Rolling Stone Gathers Moss?
“all the news that fits into the 1967 mythos.” The news that Jann Wenner and son are selling their stake in Rolling Stone magazine made me think of Greg Shaw’s hilarious Who Put The Bomp! article on...
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Critical Vistas
jill johnston gets off her bike to criticize the constellations. Jill Johnston. Criticism wears me out—it’s like riding a bike up and down the country hills in a race against a phantom judge. I’ll take...
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Digitizing Folk Music History Seminar: Striking Some First Chords
making sense of the folk music revival. This fall quarter, I am teaching my Digitizing Folk Music History seminar again with yet another exceptional group of students. We began the year diving right...
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Digitizing Folk Music History Seminar: Introductory Listening Mix
listening, listening, listening to the varied sounds of the American folk music revival. I ask my Digitizing Folk Music History seminar to listen to a lot of music. We put it on an audio player so you...
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Digitizing Folk Music History: Folklore, Fakelore, and More Lore
is “folk” expression part of popular culture, or pop culture a kind of “folk” expression, or both? why should we care? Alan Lomax and Jerome Weisner transcribing folk songs and documenting records in...
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10/04/17: Love and Then Some: 1960s Protest & Liberation @ Block Museum,...
4 october 2017, 6 pm, block museum, northwestern university: jimi hendrix, the devil’s tritone, & the countercultural politics of the uncategorizable. Jimi Hendrix at the Fillmore West, February...
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Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix & the Countercultural Politics of the...
a riff on hendrix for “love & then some: 1960s protest & liberation” @ blake & the age of aquarius exhibition panel, block museum. Are you experienced?: Jimi Hendrix & the...
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Feed Your Head: Revisiting the Summer of Love, Rethinking the Counterculture
john murphy reviews the “revisiting the summer of love, rethinking the counterculture” conference. In The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, John Murphy reviews the “Revisiting the...
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Student Showcase: The 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival
jacob frazer goes audio-visual. In last year’s Digitizing Folk Music History seminar, students completed multimedia projects based on original research. Among the talented group, Jacob Frazer took on...
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brock stuessi remixes john cohen remixes roscoe holcomb. In my Digitizing Folk Music History seminar, students complete multimedia projects based on original research. Brock Stuessi grew interested in...
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