Comics & Pop Culture w/ Guests Rob Weiner and Dr. Rob Peaslee

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, What does Elders, Mentors, and Legacies mean? - 01:13

Part II, Defining Tradition Bearers - 17:59

Part III, Adapted Vernacular Pedagogies in the VMC Ensembles - 30:51

Part IV, What is the Next Step? - 43:42

Part V, Dedication to our Mentors - 50:50

• Paddy Moloney
• Tony MacMahon
• Lee Scratch Perry
• Pat Martino
• Nanci Griffith
• Dusty Hill
• Rusty Young
• Charlie Watts
• Bunny Wailer
• Tony Rice
• Robin Morton
• Don Everly
• Tom T. Hall
• Robby Steinhardt
• B.J. Thomas

Outro - 52:22

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Full Playlist for EP 30
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist 
VVMC Book Club
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

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• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Starting off the Foodways Sampler! - 01:09

Part II, Baking w/ Gevyn Stockard (Production Engineer) - 3:20

Part III, Holiday Food in Texas w/ Heather Beltz (Administrative Coordinator) - 5:47

Part IV, Sampler Guest List - 9:52

Part V, Vietnam Dishes w/ Ron Milam (EP 22) - 10:21

Part VI, Dissertation Fuel w/ Roger Landes (Co-Host) - 12:09

Part VI, From the Back Yard Vegetarian Pizzas w/ Aileen Dillane (EP 24) -  14:09

Part VII, Learning the Indian Splash w/ Nicholas Gerardin (EP 17) - 16:26

Part VIII, Local Foods in Washington D.C. w/ Patrick Warfield (EP 23) - 18:22

Part IX, Anthony Bourdain Restaurant Tour w/ Rob Peaslee and Panamanian Fried Yuka w/ Rob Weiner (EP 26) - 20:37

Part X, Bug Anecdotes & The Wrong White Chocolate w/ Rich Remsberg (EP 19) - 23:03

Part XI, NOLA Jambalaya w/ Steve Waksman (EP 18) - 26:14

Part XII, Onion Tarts w/ Cassandre Balosso-Bardin (EP 21) - 30:45

Part XIII, Vegetarian Learning to Cook Meat w/ Genevieve Durham-DeCesaro (EP 28) - 33:22

Outro - 36:12

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Full Playlist for EP 29
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist 
VVMC Book Club
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Meet Interim Dean Genevieve Durham DeCesaro - 01:10

Part II, The Role of Dance in Both the Program & the Community - 12:38

Part III, How to Learn from Our Body - 15:31

Part IV, Music & Dance Coexist - 22:35

Part V, Making Higher Education Inclusive - 30:00

Part VI, Live Performances & Leadership Post-COVID - 39:55

Part VI, Engaging with Students & Cultural Traditions in an Ethical Way -  44:28

Part VII, What is Vernacular Dance & Why Does It Matter? - 50:15

Outro - 54:04

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BIO:  Prior to her appointment as Interim Dean, Professor of Dance Genevieve Durham DeCesaro served Texas Tech University as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs since 2014. She joined the Provost's staff after serving as Head of Dance since 2004 and as Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance since 2008. Her choreography has been commissioned and performed across the country, with notable presentations at Virginia Tech, Spelman College, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

More recently, her artistic and scholarly research agenda has foregrounded perceptions of the human condition as understood and expressed through movement and other types of performance. Her work in this area, including the 2016 monograph Ordinary Wars: Doing Transdisciplinary Research (with Dr. Elizabeth Sharp) has been featured nationally and internationally, with key presentations at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, and the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. Interim Dean Durham DeCesaro currently serves as the Vice President for Regional Planning for the American College Dance Association and is a Visiting Evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Dance.

Somatic Authority and the Myth of the Ideal Body in Dance Education

Full Playlist for EP 28
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist 
VVMC Book Club
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

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• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Baby Let Me Follow You Down:  The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years - 01:10

• Preview at Archive.org
• Eric & Jim

Part II, Dylan Goes Electric!:  Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night the Split the Sixties - 35:07

• David Gahr’s photos of the Newport Folk Festival
• Other photos of the Newport Folk Festival

Outro - 01:03:57

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Full Playlist for EP 27
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist 
VVMC Book Club
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Meet Rob Weiner and Dr. Rob Peaslee - 01:05

Part II, What is Vernacular about a Superhero Universe - 13:51

Part III, A Need for Superheroes - 21:24

Part IV, A Need for Supervillains - 28:38

Part V, Assembling the Collection - 31:06

Part VI, Understanding Context w/in Pop Culture - 37:27

Part VII, Dark Attraction to Joker - 41:31

Part VIII, On Location - 50:44

Part IX, Future Projects - 54:45

Outro - 56:50

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Rob Weiner BIO:  Robert G. “Rob” Weiner is Popular Culture Librarian and liaison to the College of Visual and
Performing Arts. He also teaches for the Honors College. His research interests include sequential
art, popular music, and the history of film. He had authored/edited/co-edited over 15 books
including Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries, The Supervillain Reader (with Robert Moses
Peaslee), Marvel Graphic Novels, In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (with
Shelley Barba) Python Beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture (with Paul Reinsch and Lynn
Whitfield), Perspectives on the Grateful Dead, Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom (with
Carry Syma), Marvel Comics into Film (with Matt McEniry and Robert Moses Peaslee) and the Joker:
A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime (with Robert Moses Peaslee). Rob has also published
articles and book chapters in The International Journal of Comic Art, ImageText, Journal of Pan
African Studies, Texas Library Journal, Secret Origins of Comic Studies, The Routledge Companion to
Comics, The Vietnam War in Popular Culture, What's Eating You: Food and Horror on the Screen, and
Global Glam and Popular Music, Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation.
Most recently he published several pieces in The American Superhero.

Robert Peaslee BIO:  Former Programming Chair for Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX); Coordinator, TTU International Film Series; several years' experience in sports and higher education marketing and communications; many years' experience in food and beverage industry; extensive experience with international travel and study abroad leadership.

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Full Playlist for EP 26
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist 
VVMC Book Club
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, The Summer of Soul - a Documentary - 01:09

• Check out the documentary on HULU!
• A Summer of Soul Companion Reading List
• Summer Of Soul: Harlem Cultural Festival 1969 YouTube Playlist
• Questlove on Building ‘Summer of Soul’ Around Awe-Inspiring Musical Moments Interview

Part II, What Happened? - 08:58

Outro - 50:49

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Full Playlist for EP 25
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist 
VVMC Book Club
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Meet Dr. Aileen Dillane  - 00:59

Part II, Programming Festivals - 17:35

Part III, Inclusivity in Festivals Since the Lockdown - 26:22

Part IV, Limerick Soundscapes Project - 34:28

Part V, Vernacularity of the Soundscapes Project - 48:03

Outro - 53:55

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Dr. Aileen Dillane is an ethnomusicologist, Global Irish musics specialist, and Popular Music scholar with research interests in ethnicity, identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the traditional and popular musics of Ireland, UK, North America, and Australia; Music Festivals and Cultural Diversity; Music and Migration; Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship; Protest music. PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago. (Fulbright Scholar and Century Fellow). PI on FestiVersities, HERA-funded research project on European Music Festivals (2019-2021). Co-Founder/Co-Director of LimerickSoundscapes; Popular Music & Popular Culture @UL; Power, Discourse and Society @UL. Member of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. Course Director, MA Irish Music Studies. Follow her on  Twitter.

For more information, please see his University of Limerick Bio.

Full Playlist for EP 24

VVMC Book Club

VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist

Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Meet Dr. Pat Warfield  - 00:59

Part II, The "Secrets" of Sousa - 12:06

Part III, The Patriotism of Sousa - 31:32

Part IV, The Dissemination of Sousa - 46:46

Part V, The Legacy of Sousa - 54:51

Outro - 01:01:40

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Patrick Warfield, Ph.D., is a musicologist and specialist in American musical culture. His current research focuses on music in Washington, D.C., during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a special interest in the American wind band tradition.

Warfield has presented at conferences and meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. He has delivered keynote addresses at the North American British Music Studies Association and the Frederick Loewe Symposium on American Music and has served as a speaker at the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music and the annual American Band History Conference. His publications have appeared in "The Journal of the American Musicological Society," "American Music," "The Journal of the Society for American Music" and "Nineteenth-Century Music Review." He recently completed the edition Six Marches by John Philip Sousa for the series "Music of the United States of America" and a biography of Sousa, entitled "Making the March King," published by the University of Illinois Press.

Warfield was a founding member of the editorial board of "The Journal of Music History Pedagogy," and is especially interested in the teaching of American popular music, including rock, jazz and the blues. He is also active as a public musicologist, delivering programs for the Music Center at Strathmore, the Washington National Opera and the Smithsonian.

In addition to his position in the School of Music, Warfield is an affiliate faculty member in the departments of American Studies and African American Studies. 

For more information, please see his University of Maryland Bio.

Full Playlist for EP 23

VVMC Book Club

VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist

Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Meet Dr. Ron Milam  - 01:13

Part II, Vernacular Perspective of the Vietnam War - 05:18

Part III,  Researching Both Sides of the War - 13:06

Part IV, Academic Conferences - 21:32

Part V, Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC) - 26:10

Part VI, Music and the War - 28:20

• 'How many kids did you kill today?'

Part VII, Social Identities within the War - 51:44

Outro - 58:36

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Ron Milam is an Associate Professor of History, a Fulbright Scholar to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the founding Faculty advisor to the Veterans' Association at Texas Tech. He teaches both halves of the U.S. Survey, the Vietnam War, and graduate and undergraduate courses in Military History. His latest teaching interest is terrorism and insurgency, an interest that developed from his having been named an Academic Fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He also serves as the Academic Advisor for the semi-annual Vietnam Center sponsored student trips to Vietnam and Cambodia. He has also taught at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam under a Ford Foundation grant.

Dr. Milam is the author of Not a Gentleman's War: an Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War, published by the University of North Carolina Press, and the editor of The Vietnam War in Popular Culture: The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life (2 volumes), published by ABC-CLIO/Praeger. He is currently working on “The Siege of Phu Nhon: Montagnards and Americans as Allies in Battle,” which deals with one of the most significant battles in the late days of the Vietnam War.

Dr. Milam is a member of the Texas Tech Teaching Academy, recipient of the President's Excellence in Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Excellence in Teaching Award, the President's Excellence in Teaching Professorship and is an Integrated Scholar. Dr. Milam is the Executive Director of the Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC), which includes the world renowned Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the David Westphall Veterans Foundation, which operates the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Angel Fire, New Mexico. He was recently named by Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Robert Wilke to the Veteran's Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation (VACOR).

Dr. Milam is a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and in 2015 was inducted into the Officer Candidate School (OCS) Hall of Fame at the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia. He rides and collects motorcycles.

For more information, please see his Texas Tech University Bio.

Full Playlist for EP 22

VVMC Book Club

VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist

Voices from the Vernacular Music Center

Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Meet Dr. Cassandre Balosso-Bardin  - 01:05

Part II, Let's Talk About Bagpipes - 28:03

Part III, The International Bagpipe Conference! - 53:07

Outro - 01:03:18

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Cassandre Balosso-Bardin is a musician, academic and events organiser. She is a senior lecturer in Music at University of Lincoln and specialises in Ethnomusicology, more specifically Mediterranean music, cultural sustainability, musical instruments, and intercultural music making, which are informed through fieldwork based research and performance. She completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London in 2015, focusing on the anthropology of the Mallorca bagpipes (the xeremies). She is the founding director of the International Bagpipe Organisation since 2012. 

Cassandre is also a prolific performer and plays the recorders and bagpipes. After many years of performing early music, including with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, she dedicated herself to the global music scene, performing with bands from different cultural traditions including Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Greece, Anatolia and North-West Africa. She has performed at many international festivals and venues with her bands (Amaraterra, Världens Band, Bonnendis, Follow the Rats...) including the Proms, Womad, Cambridge Folk Festival, the Sage, Musicport, Aan Korb BBC festival, Bloomsbury festival, Urkult, Stockholm Culture Festival and Stockholm Folk Festival. Cassandre also organises a range of music events and is currently the artistic director for The Guild Sessions (community-based folk/world music concerts) and The Global Sound Sessions (Lincoln Performing Arts Centre).

For more information, please see www.cassandrebalossobardin.com

Full Playlist for EP 21
VVMC Book Club
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center