[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
May
2: Classical Music Icons: Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”: A classical
music series kicks off with the composer and work that helped bring classical
music to America, and vice versa.
May
3: Classical Music Icons: The Gershwins: The series continues with the
lesser-known careers and works of the other two Gershwin siblings.
May
4: Classical Music Icons: Maria Callas: Two telling dualities embodied by
one of America’s most famous opera singers, as the series rolls on.
May
5: Classical Music Icons: Yo-Yo Ma: Three very American moments in the
career of one of our most talented classical musicians.
May
6: Classical Music Icons: Florence Foster Jenkins: The series concludes
with what’s funny, and what’s more serious, about a famous failure.
May
7-8: Mother’s Day Special Post: For the holiday, highlighting a short story
that helps us remember and celebrate one of society’s toughest and most vital
roles.
May
9: Semester Reflections: Yung Wing in Am Lit I: A series of Spring 16
reflections kicks off with a long overdue first step in my American literature
survey.
May
10: Semester Reflections: Annie Baker in Capstone: The series continues
with two distinct but complementary reasons to teach more drama in literature
courses.
May
11: Semester Reflections: A Writing Associate in Major American Authors: One
expected and one surprising lesson provided by my student Writing Associate, as
the series rolls on.
May
12: Semester Reflections: Multimedia Texts in Ethnic American Lit: The
value of adding two kinds of multimedia texts to a familiar and favorite
course.
May
13: Semester Reflections: Poetry in ALFA: The series concludes with three
examples of poems that complemented the historical subjects in my latest Adult
Learning course.
May
14-15: Fall 2016 Questions: A special weekend post on three requests
through which you can help with my Fall 16 course planning and development!
May
16: AmericanStudying 60s Rock: The Beach Boys and Dylan: A series on the 50th
anniversary of Pet Sounds and Blonde on Blonde kicks off with those
two models for artistic innovation.
May
17: AmericanStudying 60s Rock: “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”: The
series continues with a troubling song and why those problems do and don’t
matter.
May
18: AmericanStudying 60s Rock: Jimi Hendrix’s Covers: What the legendary guitarist
brought to three covers, as the series rocks on.
May
19: AmericanStudying 60s Rock: Joan and Janis: Two alternate visions of 60s
counter-culture, and what links them.
May
20: AmericanStudying 60s Rock: Woodstock: The series concludes with three
telling moments from across the four-day festival that culminated 60s rock.
May
21-22: Crowd-sourced RockStudying: One of my most epic crowd-sourced posts
yet, with rocking responses and even a mini-Guest Post from many fellow
RockStudiers—add your own, please!
May
23: New Scholarly Books: Heidi Kim’s Invisible Subjects: A series on new
AmericanStudies scholarly books starts with a great addition to Asian and
American Studies.
May
24: New Scholarly Books: André Carrington’s Speculative Blackness: The
series continues with a vital connection of race, science fiction, and cultural
studies.
May
25: New Scholarly Books: Teresa Thomas’ American Arabists in the Cold War
Middle East: A colleague’s important new book and inspiring career arc, as
the series rolls on.
May
26: New Scholarly Books: Jacobs and King’s Fed Power: A public scholarly book
with the potential to impact and alter the presidential campaign and beyond.
May
27: New Scholarly Books: Finding Light between the Pages: The series
concludes with three things to know about my own scholarly book-in-progress!
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!
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