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March 14, 2016 (March 8, 2016)

Alan Harper’s blues odyssey

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Alan Harper left his home in England in 1979 on a pilgrimage to find the blues. His journey led him to Chicago where he worked at a sandwich restaurant and […]

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March 10, 2016 (March 9, 2016)

Funk the Erotic up for Lambda Award

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Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L. H. Stallings is a finalist in the 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBT Studies category. The Lambda Literary […]

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March 10, 2016 (March 10, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Furry’s People

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“Virtuosity in playing blues licks is like virtuosity in celebrating the Mass, it is empty, it means nothing. Skill—competence—is a necessity, but a true blues player’s virtue lies in his […]

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March 3, 2016 (March 2, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Life Is Old There

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Appalachia is one of those words that encompasses a universe and leaves each of us to form our own ideas of what it means. For me, to use one example, […]

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February 29, 2016 (February 19, 2016)

Flatfooting on YouTube

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In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, musician, dancer, and scholar Phil Jamison tells the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. […]

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February 26, 2016 (February 17, 2016)

Gordon Mumma and adventures of the ear

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“Pretty much every modern electronic artist you consider ‘out-there’ will appear a lot more ‘in-here’ when you’ve heard this.”–Rob Fitzpatrick, writing for The Guardian, on Gordon Mumma’s Electronic Music of Theater […]

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February 25, 2016 (February 25, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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From Beyoncé to Shonda Rhimes to Laverne Cox, African American women have a higher profile up and down our pop culture than at any time in the past. Of course, […]

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February 24, 2016 (February 23, 2016)

The composer and the Scarecrow

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Harold Arlen composed some of the great classics of the Great American Song Book including “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Blues in the Night,” “Stormy Weather,” and, of the Wizard […]

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February 17, 2016 (February 17, 2016)

Funk the Erotic wins Emily Toth Award

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Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L. H. Stallings has won the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women’s Studies. […]

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February 17, 2016 (February 15, 2016)

When the clock strikes rock

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One of the most important singles in American music history, “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets was the B-side of his first Decca single, a post-apocalyptic novelty […]

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February 12, 2016 (February 10, 2016)

Ain’t Valentine’s Day

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Love can be hard in real life. It’s always hard in film noir. As the essays in the starry-eyed UIP release Kiss the Blood Off My Hands show, getting involved with guys and/or […]

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January 22, 2016 (January 22, 2016)

Guthrie and Trump

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Will Kaufman, the author of UIP’s Woody Guthrie: American Radical, just published a piece in The Conversation about a recent discovery he made in the Guthrie archives. Maybe you’ve seen it referenced all over […]

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