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Sunday, March 25 • 9:00am - 11:00am
The Rock Turn

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Tom Smucker, “When Bobby Went Bob: Darin’s Muddled Dylan Turn, The Assassination of RFK, and the Collapse of Ring A Ding Urban Masculinity”

Jack Hamilton, “‘Summer’s Here and the Time Is Right’: The Rolling Stones and the Death of Sixties Music”

Andy Zax, “Remapping The Woodstock Festival:  How I Uncovered The True History Of ‘The Second-Largest City In New York State’ And Made Country Joe McDonald Hate My Guts”

Douglas Wolk, “Songs of The City”

Moderator: Michaelangelo Matos

Speakers
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Jack Hamilton

Jack Hamilton is a graduate student in the History of American Civilization program at Harvard University, where he is finishing a dissertation on racial imagination and popular music in the 1960s. His writing has appeared online and in print in The Atlantic, Transition, and else... Read More →
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Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos is the author of The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America (Dey Street, 2015) and Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year (Hachette, 2020). He has also worked as an editor on acclaimed biographies of the Replacements... Read More →
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Tom Smucker

Tom Smucker has been writing about pop culture and politics since the 1960s and wrote the chapter on the Carpenters and Lawrence Welk in the current EMP anthology. His novel An Inconvenient Amish Zombie Left Behind The Da Vinci Diet Code Truth was published in 2011. Abstract:"When... Read More →
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Douglas Wolk

Douglas Wolk is the author of Live at the Apollo (Continuum, 2003) and Reading Comics (Da Capo, 2007). He writes about pop music and comic books for Time, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and elsewhere, and has run the tiny record label Dark Beloved Cloud since 1992. He lives in Portland... Read More →

Sunday March 25, 2012 9:00am - 11:00am EDT
NYU’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life (KC) 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
  914 KC