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Book Review: Why Your Band Sucks
<p>Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear). Jon Fine. New York: Viking, 2015. Jon Fine’s memoir Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) chronicles the author’s career as a second tier rock star and reflects on … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/11/21/book-review-why-your-band-sucks/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Book Review: Why Yo
Nov 21, 20162 min read
Teaching Ideas: Ways of Thinking about and Seeing the Grateful Dead
<p>Ways of Seeing the Grateful Dead: It often surprises music fans to learn that rightwing author/commentator/shock jock Ann Coulter claims to be a Deadhead who has seen over 60 shows. You can read all about it at: <a href="http://www.jambands.com/features/2006/06/23/deadheads-are-what-liberals-claim-to-be-but-aren-t-an-interview-with-ann-coulter" rel="nofollow">http://www.jambands.com/features/2006/06/23/deadheads-are-what-liberals-claim-to-be-but-aren-t-an-interview-
Nov 16, 20163 min read
Book Review: New Look at Robert Frost Poem
<p>The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong. By David Orr. Penguin Press (2015). 184 pp. In his 1998 biography of Andrew Wyeth, Richard Meryman tells of a time when Robert Frost contacted the eminent painter. Frost wanted Wyeth to paint his portrait, because Frost thought … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/11/14/book-review-new-look-at-robert-frost-poem/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reade
Nov 14, 20164 min read
Teaching about the History of White Trash
<p>Putting Class Back Into the Classroom I’m guilty of being one of those scholars who too glibly use the words “important book” in reviews and academic discussions. We often mean, simply, a work that advances some argument within our narrow specialty—not a book we could actually teach, or one that undergraduates would find provocative. Every … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/11/09/teaching-about-the-history-of-white-trash/" class="more-link">Continue reading <s
Nov 9, 20165 min read
Lizzie Borden on Trial Book Review
<p>Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity and Gender. Joseph A. Conforti. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2015. Joseph A. Conforti’s Lizzie Borden on Trial examines the infamous case of Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her stepmother and father with an axe in 1892. Conforti offers a new perspective on the case by … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/11/07/lizzie-borden-on-trial-book-review/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="scree
Nov 7, 20162 min read
PCAACA Conference
<p>Early bird registration and other details of the April 2017 PCA/ACA conference is now available online.</p>
Nov 4, 20161 min read
The Subject is Torture: Rollins Prize Winner
<p>The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film. Hilary Neroni. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Note: This book was selected as the Rollins Prize Winner as the best new book on popular/American culture by an author living or working in New York of New England. Hilary Neroni’s excellent new … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/11/01/the-subject-is-torture-rollins-prize-winner-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading
Nov 1, 20163 min read
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Oct 25, 20161 min read
NEPCA Conference a Smashing Success!!!
<p>Thanks to the approximately 150 participants of last weekend’s conference. (We’re still doing all the numbers.) The conference was, by all measures, a smashing success (though no pumpkins were harmed in the process). Congratulations to Karen Honeycutt for her organizational efforts and thanks to Keene State College for its hospitality. Keep watching this space for updates. </p>
Oct 24, 20161 min read
Weather Forecast for NEPCA Conference
<p>Here is the early forecast for this weekend: morning showers on Friday with a high of 65 and a low of 51. Saturday will be cooler: 58/38 with some showers floating around. Advice for those visiting from outside the region: New England weather has a well-deserved reputation for being changeable, so don’t presume that this … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/10/17/weather-forecast-for-nepca-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reade
Oct 17, 20161 min read
War and the Urban Context Conference
<p>CFP: War and the Urban Context Scenes of Aleppo’s war-torn streets may be shocking to the world’s majority urban population, but such destruction would be familiar to urban dwellers as early as the third millennium BCE. While war is often narrated as a clash of empires, nation-states, and ‘civilizations,’ cities have been the strategic targets … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/10/12/war-and-the-urban-context-conference/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span cl
Oct 12, 20162 min read
Theo Bikel: Revisiting the American Folk Music Revival
<p>THEODORE BIKEL While I’m Here Red House 286 Theo Bikel’s While I’m Here is a magical trip down Memory Lane. If this name rings no bells, your cultural/musical education contains a gap that this double-CD can bridge. Bikel (1924-2015) was a seminal figure in the middle period of the Folk Revival (1947-1965). Bikel was … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/10/10/theo-bikel-revisiting-the-american-folk-music-revival/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="scre
Oct 10, 20163 min read
PCAACA Deadline October 1
<p>October 1 is the deadline to submit a proposal for upcoming PCA conference. Details can be be found at this link.</p>
Sep 29, 20161 min read
Racism and Discrimination in Sports CFP
<p>Racism and Discrimination in the Sporting World – An interdisciplinary volume to be edited by Professor of French and Fulbright Scholar Eileen M. Angelini, Ph.D., Canisius College What is it about culture and society that creates an environment in which an athlete is able to excel or fail in his/her respective sport? Which factors, such … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/08/04/racism-and-discrimination-in-sports-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span
Aug 4, 20161 min read
Baseball & American Society: Ground-Rule Double
<p>Baseball & American Society: How a Game Reflects the American Experience. By Charles DeMotte. Cognella, 199 pages, 2014. SUNY Cortland professor Charles DeMotte set a daunting task for himself: present an overview of American history, juxtapose it with the development and evolution of baseball from the late 18th century to the present, and wrap … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/07/22/baseball-american-society-ground-rule-double/" class="more-link">Contin
Jul 22, 20162 min read
NEPCA Seeking Reviewer
<p>I need a current member of NEPCA who has a background in management and sports to review a a new book titled Sports Business Unplugged. Here’s its URL: http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2016/sports-business-unplugged.html If interested, please contact me: <a href="mailto:Weir.r@comcast.net">Weir.r@comcast.net</a></p>
Jul 21, 20161 min read
Music and Multicultural America: Book Review
<p>The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States, Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen, eds. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2016. Ponder this: Folk performances were born in isolation, but fiber optics, Wi-Fi signals, cable, and satellite dishes connect us, even though the United States remains the world’s most diverse … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/07/13/music-and-multicultural-america-book-review/" cl
Jul 13, 20163 min read
Conference Schedule Being Developed
<p>Those whose papers have been selected for the fall NEPCA conference should receive confirmation of this by the end of the week at the latest. The fall conference will be dynamic and diverse. Those whose papers have been selected should register ASAP as there is a waiting list and we cannot guarantee slots to those … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/07/13/conference-schedule-being-developed/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Confere
Jul 13, 20161 min read
Pedagogy Database
<p>We are developing the new Pedagogy Database at <a href="http://www.pedagogydatabase.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.pedagogydatabase.com</a>, an academic online community where professors can share teaching pedagogy. We are at the initial stages of building the database across multiple disciplines and course levels, and we are seeking contributions of pedagogy that you have created in your teaching career, such as: Timelines Glossaries Case … <a href="https://nepca.
Jul 13, 20161 min read
Alison Bechdel Collection CFP
<p>The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In “The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new examinations of her entire … <a href="https://nepca.blog/2016/07/13/alison-bechdel-collection-cfp/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-r
Jul 13, 20161 min read
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