Publications/Presentations

Academic

2015:

"War! What Is It Good For? As A Metaphor, A Lot," review of Andrew Hartman's A War For the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, The National Memo, 28 June 2015.

"Responding To Violence: Salcedo and Cytter," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago MCA DNA Blog, 21 May 2015.

"Moving History: From Archive to Stage in The Seldoms's Power Goes,", Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago MCA DNA Blog, 24 March 2015.

"Dance and Intellectual History," Society of United States Intellectual History Blog, 18 March 2015.

"How To Get Power: The Seldoms Dance with LBJ," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago MCA DNA Blog, 17 March 2015.

"Stuart Hall's Hippies," presented at the 2015 International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US (IASPM-US) Conference, Louisville, KY, February 2015.

2014:

Keynote address, "Here Beside the Rising Tide: The Dead, the Counterculture, and American Democracy," at So Many Roads: The World in the Grateful Dead Conference and Symposium, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 8 November 2014.

"The Meaning of Ideology: A Cultural Historian's Perspective (Expanded Edition)," Society of United States Intellectual History Blog, 5 November 2014.

Panelist, "The Ideology Problem in Teaching and Scholarship," at Society for United States Intellectual History Conference, 9 October 2014, Indianapolis, IN.

Review of Mark Kurlansky, Ready For a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America, in The American Historian, Fall 2014.

Curated Music Mixes and Essay for An Artists' Congress @ The Block Museum, Northwestern University, 17 May 2014.

Review of Daniel Rodgers, Age of Fracture in American Political Thought 3, 1 (Spring 2014).

Moderator, Various panels, The Seldoms, Exit Disclaimer: Science and Fiction Ahead, Northwestern University, 22-27 April 2014.

Fresno State University History Department Guest Lectures, 21-22 March 2014:

Undergraduate Honors Society Keynote Address: The Republic of Rock - Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
16th Annual History Graduate Student Symposium Keynote: Analog Music -> Digital History - Sights and Sounds from the Digital Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

Review of Rachel Rubin, Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture in Journal of American History 100, 4 (March 2014), 1290-1291.

Review of Nadya Zimmerman, Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco in Journal for the Study of Radicalism 8, 1 (Spring 2014).

Chair and Commentator, "Digital Historiography and the Archives," 2014 American Historical Association Conference, Washington DC, comments published in guest post on the AHA Blog, 21 January 2014.

2013:

Brown University, American Studies Guest Lectures, 2-3 December 2013:

"Looking Back: Christopher Lasch and the Role of the Social Critic," The Point 7, Fall 2013. Plus "Reflections on Christopher Lasch's Reflections" and "Liberation Struggles," US Intellectual History Blog.

"The sounds of American counterculture and citizenship," Oxford University Press Blog, 8 October 2013.

Podcast Interview about The Republic of Rock with Ray Haberski.

The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013).

"Old, Slow, and Human: Digital History From Archive to Argument," American Library Association (ALA) Conference, 30 June 2013, Chicago, IL.

"Analog Music -> Digital History: Teaching the US Folk Music Revival on a Networked WordPress Platform," Multimedia Learning Center (MMLC), Northwestern University, 15 March 2013.

"Alan Lomax, Harry Smith, and the Proto-Digital Study of Folk Music" Research Presentation, Northwestern University Digital Humanities Laboratory (NUDHL), 8 March 2013.

The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture Book Talk, Northwestern University John Evans Alumni Center, 8 March 2013.

2012:

"Rocktimism?: Pop Music Writing in the Age of Rock Criticism," Journal of Popular Music Studies 24, 4 (December 2012): 590-600.

WordPress for the Humanities: Developing a Digital History Course, Northwestern University Library Scholarly Research and Technology Series (SRTS).

2011:

Making History in a Virtual Archive, presentation about The Digital Berkeley Folk Music Festival project, at HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) Conference, December 2011 and the DHCS (Chicago Digital Humanities and Computer Science) Colloquium, November 2011.

Review of Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History by Robert Wells in Journal of American History 97, 4 (March 2011), 1102.

2010:

Discussion about the state of U.S. Intellectual History, U.S. Intellectual History Blog.

Cameo in Thomas Conner's article about university and college rock music courses, "Rock music 101," Chicago Sun-Times.

2009:

Blog for The Engaged Humanities Scholar as Public Intellectual, a research workshop, co-sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Civic Engagement, convened at Northwestern University.

Review of Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era Exhibition, in Journal of American History 96, 1 (June 2009).

2008:

"Infinity Goes Up on Trial: The Questioning of Psychedelic Art at the Whitney Museum," review of the art exhibition "Summer of Love: Art of the Pyschedelic Era," in The Sixties: A Journal of History Politics, and Culture 1, 1 (2008).

Video excerpt from "'Entertainment Vietnam': The Civics of Rock Music in the Vietnam-American War (and the Return of the Cultural Turn)," my presentation at the March 2008 OAH Conference, appears on Rick Shenkman's History News Network blog (note: scroll down to view video). We were all a bit bleary-eyed at 8am on a Sunday morning, but like Hendrix on the final morning of Woodstock, we performed nonetheless. Thanks to fellow participants on the panel "War at the Crossroads: Rethinking Memory, Culture, and Conflict in Vietnam": Meredith Lair, Erik B. Villard, and chair Marilyn Young.

2007:

"The Psychedelic Public and Its Problems: Rock Music Festivals and Civil Society in the Sixties Counterculture,"in Media and Public Spheres, ed. Richard Butsch (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

2005:

"The Multitrack Model: Cultural History and the Interdisciplinary Study of Popular Music," in Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines, edited by Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey (University Press of Mississippi, 2005).

Review of Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll, Kandia Crazy Horse, ed. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), in Journal of Popular Music Studies 17, 3 (December 2005), pp. 352-361.

"Listen, Do You Want to Know a Secret? When the Subterranean Went Pop," review of Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art by Mike Marqusee and Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History by Devin McKinney, H-1960s, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online Discussion Listserv (June 2005).

"To Everything Turn, Turn, Turn: The Pivot of the Sixties," review of Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern by Marianne Dekoven, H-1960s, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online Discussion Listserv (March 2005).

Review of Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place by John Connell and Chris Gibson, eds., Journal of Popular Music and Society (February 2005).

2003:

Cameo, "Funny Folk: Rethinking Purity in the U.S. Folk Revival" discussed in Alex Ross, "Rock 101," New Yorker, 14/21 July 2003.

Cameo in Layla Cooper's excellent essay, "One-Track Mind: Is Record Collecting Really Just a Guy Thing?", Bitch Magazine 20, Spring 2003 (note: article not online; only print edition available).