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    Lucy Stone

    Lucy Stone

    Lucy Stone is sometimes written about as the person who should be mentioned alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. She lived an incredibly unique life for a woman of her time and station.

     

    Research:

    • Michals, Debra “Lucy Stone.” National Women’s History Museum. 2017. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/lucy-stone
    • Million, Joelle. “Woman’s Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement.” Praeger. 2003.
    • Kerr, Andrea Moore. “Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality.” Rutgers University Press. 1992. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813518602/page/n323/mode/2up
    • Blackwell, Henry B. “What the South can do. How the Southern states can make themselves masters of the situation. To the legislatures of the Southern states.” New York. Robert J. Johnston, printer. January 15, 1867. Library of Congress: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbpe/rbpe12/rbpe127/12701100/12701100.pdf
    • Tucker, Neely. “Stone/Blackwell Marriage: To Love And Honor, But Not ‘Obey.’” Library of Congress Blog. May 5, 2020. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/05/stone-blackwell-marriage-to-love-and-honor-but-not-obey/
    • com Editors. “Lucy Stone.” Biography. Com. Nov. 23, 2021. https://www.biography.com/activists/lucy-stone
    • Smith, Bonnie Hurd. “Lucy Stone.” Boston Women’s Heritage Trail. https://bwht.org/lucy-stone/
    • “Lucy Stone.” National Women’s Hall of Fame. https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/lucy-stone/
    • “Garrisonians.” Vermont Christian Messenger. Jan. 30, 1850. https://www.newspapers.com/image/490750662/?terms=%22Lucy%20Stone%22&match=1
    • Hays, Elinor. “Morning Star.” New York. Harcourt, Brace & World. 1961. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/morningstar00hays/page/n7/mode/2up
    • Lang, Allison. “The 14th and 15th Amendments.” National Women’s History Museum. Fall 2015. https://www.crusadeforthevote.org/14-15-amendments/
    • Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Lucy Stone". Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucy-Stone
    • Wheeler, Marjoeiw Spruill. “New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States.” Oxford University Press. 1993.
    • McMillen, Sally Gregory. “Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life.” Oxford University Press. 2015.
    • “Love and Protest in a Marriage.” Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/women-fight-for-the-vote/about-this-exhibition/seneca-falls-and-building-a-movement-1776-1890/family-friends-and-the-personal-side-of-the-movement/love-and-protest-in-a-suffrage-marriage/

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    Hannah Belmont and the Long Night in Canton

    Hannah Belmont and the Long Night in Canton

    Hannah Belmont started doing stand-up once she got to Oberlin College in Ohio and already has a full schedule. She's using her theater background to her advantage and has already performed at several festivals -- Rubber City, Flagship, Sixth City. She also survived a wild night in Canton. 

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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahEBelmont

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    Episode 8 American College Campus Part 2

    Episode 8 American College Campus Part 2

    Notes for episodes 7 and 8
    American College and University Campus

    In episodes 7 and 8, we look at the history of the American college and university campus from the commencement of British American settlement through modern times. The open and public spaces of campuses, as well as the design of buildings and overall layouts, reflect societal trends, philosophies, and prejudices as much as the changing purpose of higher education itself. We explore starting with the first colleges, their charters and founding as institutions meant to educate upper class white men through the post World War II period that has seen a democratization of higher education.  

    Our moments in equity for these two episodes look at how college establishment and funding were intimately connected to the slave trade, slave labor, and the profits from the sale of slaves in the British colonies and in the pre-Civil War United States.

     

    Resources

    Paul Venable Turner, Campus: An American planning tradition (MIT Press 1987)

     

    A History of Stanford, Stanford University (Undated) – https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/ 

     

    College of William & Mary, Wikipedia (Updated Feb. 17, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_%26_Mary 

    Royal Charter (Feb. 8, 1693) [posted on Internet Archive Wayback Machine (Updated Mar. 26, 2012) – https://web.archive.org/web/20120529035803/http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Charter#Transcription_of_the_Royal_Charter]

     

    History, Columbia University in the City of New York (Undated) – https://www.columbia.edu/content/history 

     

    Frederick Law Olmsted: College and School Campuses, National Park Service (undated) –  https://www.nps.gov/frla/learn/historyculture/college-campuses.htm 

     

    Judith Schiff, Resources on Yale History: A Brief History of Yale, Yale University Library (Updated June 22, 2021) – https://guides.library.yale.edu/yalehistory 

     

    Rebecca Woodham, David J. Trowbridge, and Clio Admin, Nott Memorial, Union College, Clio: Your Guide to History (August 1, 2021, accessed Mar. 15, 2022) – https://theclio.com/entry/6225 

     

    Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections (2005) – https://archives.dickinson.edu/people/benjamin-henry-latrobe-1764-1820 

     

    Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Wikipedia (Updated Nov. 23, 2021) –  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Henry_Latrobe 

     

    Lisa Chase, Imagining Utopia: Landscape Design at Smith College, 1871-1910, 65 New England Quarterly no. 4, p. 560 (Dec. 1992) – https://garden.smith.edu/sites/garden/files/imagining-utopia-lisa-chase.pdf 

     

    Jim McCarthy, Spotlight on…Gallaudet University, National Association for Olmsted Parks (Mar. 14, 2022) – https://olmsted200.org/spotlight-on-gallaudet-university/ 

     

    Rebecca Beatrice Brooks, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, History of Massachusetts Blog (May 30, 2021) – https://historyofmassachusetts.org/cambridge-ma-history/ 

     

    Brief History of Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge Historical Commission (undated) – https://www.cambridgema.gov/historic/cambridgehistory 

     

    Harvard Square is famous for a lot of things, History, Harvard Square Business Association – https://www.harvardsquare.com/history/ 

     

    John Harvard (clergyman), Wikipedia (Updated July 28, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard_(clergyman) 

     

    Michael Johnson, 94 University Place: Old Mill, Burlington 1830 (Undated) – https://www.uvm.edu/histpres/HPJ/burl1830/streets/university/oldmill.html 

     

    Prof. Thomas Visser, Old Mill, University of Vermont (Undated; based on a professional report on the history of Old Mill prepared in 1988 by Thomas Visser and MaryJo Llewellyn of the UVM Historic Preservation Program's Architectural Conservation and Education Service.) – https://www.uvm.edu/~campus/oldmill/oldmillhistory.html 

     

    Vassar College, Wikipedia (Updated July 5, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassar_College#History 

     

    Historic Horseshoe, South Carolina, University History, University of South Carolina (Undated) – https://www.sc.edu/about/our_history/university_history/historic_horseshoe/index.php 

     

    Lydia Brandt, University of Virginia, Architecture of the, Encyclopedia Virginia (Dec. 14, 2020) – https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/university-of-virginia-the-architecture-of-the/ 

     

    History and Traditions, Washington University in St. Louis (Undated) – https://wustl.edu/about/history-traditions/#:~:text=In%201853%2C%20prominent%20St.,of%20immigrants%20flooded%20into%20St

     

    Smith College, Wikipedia (Updated Aug. 4, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_College 

     

    Smith History, Smith College (Undated) – https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/smith-history 

     

    Moments in Equity

     

    Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis, Shackled Legacy – History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities, American Public Media Reports (Sept. 4, 2017) – https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy 

     

    Yoruhu Williams, Why Thomas Jefferson’s Anti-Slavery Passage Was Removed from the Declaration of Independence, History.com (June 29, 2020) –

    Episode 7 American College Campus Part 1

    Episode 7 American College Campus Part 1

    Notes - Episodes 5 and 6

    Colleges and common space

    In episodes 5 and 6, we look at the history of the American college and university campus from the commencement of British American settlement through modern times. The open and public spaces of campuses, as well as the design of buildings and overall layouts, reflect societal trends, philosophies, and prejudices as much as the changing purpose of higher education itself. We explore starting with the first colleges, their charters and founding as institutions meant to educate upper class white men through the post World War II period that has seen a democratization of higher education.  

    Our moments in equity for these two episodes look at how college establishment and funding were intimately connected to the slave trade, slave labor, and the profits from the sale of slaves in the British colonies and in the pre-Civil War United States.

     

    Resources

    Paul Venable Turner, Campus: An American planning tradition (MIT Press 1987)

     

    A History of Stanford, Stanford University (Undated) – https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/ 

     

    College of William & Mary, Wikipedia (Updated Feb. 17, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_%26_Mary 

    Royal Charter (Feb. 8, 1693) [posted on Internet Archive Wayback Machine (Updated Mar. 26, 2012) – https://web.archive.org/web/20120529035803/http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Charter#Transcription_of_the_Royal_Charter]

     

    History, Columbia University in the City of New York (Undated) – https://www.columbia.edu/content/history 

     

    Frederick Law Olmsted: College and School Campuses, National Park Service (undated) –  https://www.nps.gov/frla/learn/historyculture/college-campuses.htm 

     

    Judith Schiff, Resources on Yale History: A Brief History of Yale, Yale University Library (Updated June 22, 2021) – https://guides.library.yale.edu/yalehistory 

     

    Rebecca Woodham, David J. Trowbridge, and Clio Admin, Nott Memorial, Union College, Clio: Your Guide to History (August 1, 2021, accessed Mar. 15, 2022) – https://theclio.com/entry/6225 

     

    Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections (2005) – https://archives.dickinson.edu/people/benjamin-henry-latrobe-1764-1820 

     

    Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Wikipedia (Updated Nov. 23, 2021) –  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Henry_Latrobe 

     

    Lisa Chase, Imagining Utopia: Landscape Design at Smith College, 1871-1910, 65 New England Quarterly no. 4, p. 560 (Dec. 1992) – https://garden.smith.edu/sites/garden/files/imagining-utopia-lisa-chase.pdf 

     

    Jim McCarthy, Spotlight on…Gallaudet University, National Association for Olmsted Parks (Mar. 14, 2022) – https://olmsted200.org/spotlight-on-gallaudet-university/ 

     

    Rebecca Beatrice Brooks, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, History of Massachusetts Blog (May 30, 2021) – https://historyofmassachusetts.org/cambridge-ma-history/ 

     

    Brief History of Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge Historical Commission (undated) – https://www.cambridgema.gov/historic/cambridgehistory 

     

    Harvard Square is famous for a lot of things, History, Harvard Square Business Association – https://www.harvardsquare.com/history/ 

     

    John Harvard (clergyman), Wikipedia (Updated July 28, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard_(clergyman) 

     

    Michael Johnson, 94 University Place: Old Mill, Burlington 1830 (Undated) – https://www.uvm.edu/histpres/HPJ/burl1830/streets/university/oldmill.html 

     

    Prof. Thomas Visser, Old Mill, University of Vermont (Undated; based on a professional report on the history of Old Mill prepared in 1988 by Thomas Visser and MaryJo Llewellyn of the UVM Historic Preservation Program's Architectural Conservation and Education Service.) – https://www.uvm.edu/~campus/oldmill/oldmillhistory.html 

     

    Vassar College, Wikipedia (Updated July 5, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassar_College#History 

     

    Historic Horseshoe, South Carolina, University History, University of South Carolina (Undated) – https://www.sc.edu/about/our_history/university_history/historic_horseshoe/index.php 

     

    Lydia Brandt, University of Virginia, Architecture of the, Encyclopedia Virginia (Dec. 14, 2020) – https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/university-of-virginia-the-architecture-of-the/ 

     

    History and Traditions, Washington University in St. Louis (Undated) – https://wustl.edu/about/history-traditions/#:~:text=In%201853%2C%20prominent%20St.,of%20immigrants%20flooded%20into%20St

     

    Smith College, Wikipedia (Updated Aug. 4, 2022) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_College 

     

    Smith History, Smith College (Undated) – https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/smith-history 

     

    Moments in Equity

     

    Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis, Shackled Legacy – History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities, American Public Media Reports (Sept. 4, 2017) – https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy 

     

    Yoruhu Williams, Why Thomas Jefferson’s Anti-Slavery Passage Was Removed from the Declaration of Independence, History.com (June 29, 2020) –

    A Standard Worth Keeping: Don't Steal Other People's Stuff

    Episode 40: Family: Oberlin

    Episode 40: Family: Oberlin
    What feels like family? For us, its Oberlin. Rozie and Jerry talk with Anna Hoffman, manager of the Oberlin Conservatory summer programs, about what the program offers for luthiers and beyond. For years this campus has been connecting people in the arts and fostering excellence.

    Tracy Rowell "Perspective"

    Tracy Rowell "Perspective"

    The Hump is thrilled to welcome our guest this week! Bassist and educator, Tracy Rowell! Tune in to find out why this episode is called, "Perspective!"

    💥Did you know...
    ➡️ Tracy started playing bass because her mom needed bassists in her school program?
    ➡️ She played jazz bass in high school! 😲
    ➡️ She studied with Paul Ellison and Edwin Barker! 💯
    ➡️ She currently teaches at Oberlin and Cleveland Insitiute of Music and before that she was the assistant Principal bassist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa  🌟💪

    Check out Tracy!
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    Episode 24 - Rodney Miller

    Episode 24 - Rodney Miller

    The intro and interstitial tracks from today’s episode are Cloud Nine/Broken Heart/Cloud Nine from the Airdance album Cloud Nine, Petronella/Green Mountain Petronella from the album New England Chestnuts, Cattle In The Cane from the album Airplang II, Lake George is one of the audio tracks from Gems Vol. 3, part of Rodney's series of recorded tunes that appear in his new tune book and Kickstart/Ticket to Nowhere/Scenic Express from the Stringrays album Ticket to Nowhere

    See the Contra Pulse website for transcripts and more.

    And the Country Dance and Song Society for information about Contra and English country dance across the continent.

    Check out the video clip from this interview where Rodney talks about his bowing technique.

    See and hear Rodney Miller in action:

    Some other topics mentioned in this interview:

    Blair McMillen: "It's okay to be vulnerable." A chat with pianist Blair McMillen, about performance anxiety, perfectionism, and why process is more important than product.

    Blair McMillen: "It's okay to be vulnerable." A chat with pianist Blair McMillen, about performance anxiety, perfectionism, and why process is more important than product.

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    Blair McMillen

    Blair's YouTube channel

    2:12 - Blair talks about how he got started, going to Interlochen, and then Oberlin.

    4:59 - Blair's struggles with a "debilitating fear of performance" and how he learned to manage this anxiety and stage fright. How beta blockers helped him deal with his "preoccupation with playing perfectly."

    Noa Kageyama, The Bulletproof Musician

    13:08 - How Blair helps his own students deal with performance anxiety and stage fright.

    14:36 - How talking about "uncomfortable things and awkward truths" was "taboo" when Blair was in school. The "hero worship" of teachers in music school who seemed to have "perfect lives." "Students want to know their teachers aren't perfect human beings."

    16:30 - How a broad liberal arts education helped Blair discover his interest in music of the 1950's, 60's and 70's and opened the door to contemporary music for him.

    Tim Weiss, Oberlin College and Conservatory

    21:08 - Blair talks about his years at The Juilliard School, going from a broad range school to a conservatory's narrower focus.

    23:44 - Blair and I talk about life after graduating from Juilliard.

    26:05 - How the advent of the Internet changed the perception of entrepreneurship and self-promotion in classical music. The need to change the classical music paradigm.

    29:08 - How the "old guard" mentality about achieving a career in classical music gives very little agency to the performer.

    31:20 - How COVID has affected performers and how the pandemic may push us to be more creative and resilient.

    32:42 - Blair's love of learning music that has little or no "performance history" and how this liberated his interest in contemporary music.

    34:22 - How music students today are interested in expanding past the idea of classical music as Eurocentric. "A life in music will not be a recital-oriented, soloist-oriented life."

    37:07 - How the attitudes towards contemporary music and teaching have changed.

    38:02 - The pandemic and the importance of "trying things you're not good at." "It's okay to have doubts and it's okay to try other things for a while....It's okay to be vulnerable."

    42:34 - "I so wish that classical music could be more about the process than the product."

    45:49 - Why being a part-time, semi-professional musician can be a healthy option. "It's okay to be part-time, it's okay to let it go for a while." "Try not to base your own self-worth on what other people think about you."

    47:50 - Why open conversation about the realities of a musician's life is important. "It's okay to not have a clear vision of what your life is going to look like as a musician." "Doubt about the future, for better or worse, is part of the 'crazy life' of a musician."

    Anthropology and Radical Humanism

    Anthropology and Radical Humanism

    Anthropology and Radical Humanism is based on the work of the famed ethnographer of the Winnebago, Paul Radin. During his three-year appointment at Fisk University in the late 1920s, Radin and a graduate student, Andrew Polk Watson, collected autobiographies and religious conversion narratives from elderly African Americans. Their texts represent the first systematic record of slavery as told by former slaves. Radin regarded each narrative as the unimpeachable self-representation of a unique, thoughtful individual, precisely the perspective marking his earlier Winnebago work. As a radical humanist, Radin was an outspoken critic of racial explanations of human affairs then pervading not only popular thinking but also historical and sociological scholarship, placing him in the vanguard of anti-racist scholarship. Utilizing this material and other archival and published sources, Jack Glazier revisits the Radin-Watson collection and sets Paul Radin’s findings within the broader context of his discipline, African American culture, and Radin’s career-defining work among the Winnebago.

    Jack Glazier is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Oberlin College and former president of the Central States Anthropological Society. He is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Royal Anthropological Institute. His previous books include Been Coming through Some Hard Times: Race, History, and Memory in Western Kentucky and Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America.

    Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race, is available at msupress.org and other fine booksellers. You can connect with the press on Facebook and @msupress on twitter, where you can also find me @kurtmilb.

    The MSU Press podcast is a joint production of MSU Press and the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. Thanks to Daniel Trego, Madiha Ghous, Donté Smith, Kylene Cave, and the team at MSU Press, especially Elise Jajuga and Julie Reaume, for helping to produce this podcast. Our theme music is “Coffee” by Cambo. 

    "It's a weird time to try to reinvent yourself." A chat with Nick Photinos, innovative cellist and founding member of Eighth Blackbird, about career transformation and the importance of preserving our mental health during this time of pandemic.

    "It's a weird time to try to reinvent yourself." A chat with Nick Photinos, innovative cellist and founding member of Eighth Blackbird, about career transformation and the importance of preserving our mental health during this time of pandemic.

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    Nick Photinos

    4:23 - Struggling with productivity and career transformation during the pandemic.

    4:38 - Nick talks about the "profound change" his career is taking now as he prepares to leave Eighth Blackbird and how we all identify with our professional personas.

    6:00 - The challenges of reinventing oneself during the uncertainty of COVID-19.

    8:29 - The genesis of Eighth Blackbird at Oberlin. Tim Weiss.

    12:52 - How Nick decided it was time to leave Eighth Blackbird and move onto the next stage of his career.

    15:00 - The complexities of interpersonal relationships within small ensembles. How Eighth Blackbird defined their mission and made artistic choices in the beginning.

    17:35 - What happens when something we identify with changes?

    21:28 - How competitions helped Eighth Blackbird at the start of their career. How uniqueness helped their career and why it can be hard to differentiate yourself if you stay on a very traditional career path.

    24:28 - How staying true to what "lit him up" is what gave Nick clarity in his career and artistic goals.

    25:38 - Why Eighth Blackbird could only have formed at Oberlin.

    27:55 - How Nick got started playing music and the importance of collaboration.

    31:45 - How Nick is finding ways to collaborate in his home with his family.

    32:38 - Nick's arrangement of Aphex Twin's tune, Avril 14.

    33:43 - Nick's work with Dana Fonteneau on how all of the ways musicians are used to measuring themselves is gone and how this time can be best used for musicians to ask themselves "why are we doing this?" In the absence of all the traditional reasons to making music, why should we keep making music?

    35:19 - The joy of playing new music because there is no "right" way to play it.

    35:47 - Bob Dylan's ability to communicate despite his "horrible voice" and the importance of asking ourselves "what am I saying?" How to be authentic and fresh.

    38:43 - How the well worn paths have become too well worn and why it's important to ask yourself "where does this eventually lead?"

    40:20 - Nick and I talk about the c0mplexities of the classical music world's obsession with youth. e.g."From the Top."

    43:07 - The ways we derive our sense of worthiness from our professional successes and identities and the challenges that come from this over-identification.

    44:33 - Why people skills and "soft" skills are the most important for the success and longevity of your ensemble.

    47:43 - Memorization and why it's especially important in performing new music and how it can liberate the performers and also increase the audience's understanding and enjoyment of a piece. Michael Torke's Yellow Pages.

    53:45 - What Nick is planning for the next stage of his career as a solo artist.

    55:17 - Why deadlines are useful for Nick in his creative work and development.

    58:29 - How Nick cultivates his creative courage.

    1:01:14 - Nick talks about his interest in miniatures and how his first solo album, "Petits Artéfacts," developed from his interest in encores and short pieces.

    George Saunders

    Lydia Davis

    1:04:16 - Why Nick would tell his younger self to focus on the people and things that "lift you up."

    1:04:55 - Why "not beating yourself up" is especially important during this time of pandemic and the importance of preserving our mental health during this time.

    Episode 5: Listener Feedback with Ben Hebbert

    Episode 5: Listener Feedback with Ben Hebbert
    Join Chris & Rozie along with Ben Hebbert as we take listener questions. Do you want to go to violin making school? We discuss some great options. Do we think the violin will change over the next 100 years? What are some new technologies in the market? And we learned the difference between a fez and a thinking cap. Ben tells us where not to eat in Cremona. Special Guest: Benjamin Hebbert.