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Ode to the Pied Piper of Motown
Black Music and Soul
Abbey or Diana?
Sampling or Stealing?
Coping With Information Overload
Reverence for the Past, Relevance for Today
The Untold Story of Scott Joplin’s House
Black Men and Black Women
Sister Act
The Third (Postmodern) Accordion
Who Owns Black Music?
The Same Old Song
The (Not So) Sweet Escape
Storytelling Through Soundtracks
The Search for the Truth During Troubled Times
Music Criticism in the Classroom
Diana Ross as Amy Winehouse?
The Many Faces of Marvin, And How We Remember Him
The Other Girls of Motown
The Symbolism of Billie Holiday
Why Don’t People Remember George Washington as Our First White President?
The Difference A Musician Makes
Abbey Lincoln: A Story of Personal Identity
Producing Hate
Nothing But Reflections
What’s Going On… 1964 Style
Fusion
Authenticity and Black Music
Another Layer to the Ongoing Authenticity Conversation
Stevie and Motown's Other Break-Out Stars
The Loss of Religiosity in the West
Majority Rules: Race and the Nation's Capital
The Music of "Nothing But A Man"
The Problem of Authenticity in a You Tube World
Chuck Berry… Black Music?
Central Baptist Church Take Two
Authentic or Non-Authentic?
Struggles, Failure, and Ascension (an attempt to make sense out of nonsense)
Change Your Pajamas (and other words of Sunday wisdom)
Communism and the Movement????
Views on "Nothing But A Man"
A Man Called Adam
In the Ear and the Message
Jazz IS Alive and Well!
Cultural Foundations and African Culture
Nothing But A Man and Black Art
Music is Soul, Soul is Music
Where's Waldo?
I "Thought" I Knew About Jazz
The African Burial Ground: (African) American History and Issues of Identity
Primary Sources and the Search for “Truth” in History
Jazz's Holy Grail
Sell Out?
What is Music?
Jazz at the Bistro and USA vs. Brazil
Connecting With Students
Letters and Numbers: Biographical Poetry?
Creator-Oriented vs. Audience-Oriented Work
The Art or Craft of Motown
The Education of John Coltrane
The Chicken or the Egg: Why did Jazz lose its Popularity?
A Mixed Legacy
Process in Discussions of Race
A Voice in Politics: Did Musicians Have One?
Myth, Reality, or Maybe Both…
Its Own Museum
Racial Music vs. Cultural Music
The Black Arts Movement and Women
What is Black Music?
Social Progress is Slow
Jazz COULD Travel Up The River To Chicago!
White Narration of the African-American Experience
Why is Popular Music Important?
The Sock Hop and the Loft: Blogging the 2011 NEH Summer Institute
Summertime
Final Presentations
Great Men and Final Thoughts
Rethinking Mrs. Turner
America's Favorite Pastime
War and Sports
The Muse Makes News
A Good New-Fashioned Rent Party
Thank You
Jack Johnson and His World
All That Jazz
Slide Correction for Monday 7/26 Morning Session
A Message From Gerald Early
Drop Me Off In Harlem
Villains and Heroes of the Negro Renaissance
No Longer Harlem Bound
Music and Motivation
Defense Factory Blues
Sports, Not Just Art, in the Renaissance
This Little Light of Mine
Divinely Demented
New Respect for Birds and Flowers in New Negro Poetry
Father Divine
18th and Vine
Ellington and Black Beauty
Robeson, Du Bois & Understanding the African Diaspora
Mammies to Divas
Weary Blues
Blues: Redefined for the Studio
Racial Segregation in St. Louis
More Poetry Please!
Children Having Their Say
Rhapsody in Blues
Impressions of Thurman
Can You Please Say What You Really Mean?
Yet Do I Marvel; or, Wallace Thurman and the Day I Ticked Off Edward P. Jones
Lynching Postcards
To Shelter or Expose
Audible Man: Marcus Garvey and Ralph Ellison
Renaissance Envy