Glen Hansard’s great live cover of my all-time favorite song by anyone, Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks”. Rest In Peace, Glen Hansard. 💚🇮🇪 youtube.com/watch?v=H82p...

Glen Hansard - Astral Weeks - 3/16/2012 - Stage On Sixth, Austin, TX

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Beginning Aug. 1, NPR Music will publish a week-long list of stories and podcast episodes exploring the legacy and future of the Grateful Dead. And we want to hear from you! n.pr/3RCOChj

How did you become a Deadhead?

Beginning Aug. 1, NPR Music will publish a week-long list of stories and podcast episodes exploring the legacy and future of the Grateful Dead. And we want to hear from you!

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Excellent read. "To be truly wild would not prompt a retreat into nature, but would propel the individual into the world to disseminate the truth of ‘wildness,’ to create a wild community of believers….” #LydiaWillsky-Ciollo #Thoreau #Wildness undpress.nd.edu/978026821078...

Wildness

In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.In Wildness: Henry David Thore...

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The assumption that no one listens to physical media anymore is a bit premature. I likely will be using my turntable for another 20-30 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/a...

When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport (Gift Article)

An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.

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Nicolas Pethes: “Both making and listening to music are shaped by what each side hopes for, projects onto, and receives from the other. These expectations influence not only how audiences respond to songs...but also how artists create them in the first place." www.rorotoko.com/micro-interv...

My dislike of summer is socially constructed. Natural Calendar 1. Spring: birth 2. Summer: life 3. Fall: maturity 4. Winter: dormancy Academic Calendar 1. Fall: birth 2. Winter: life 3. Spring: maturity 4. Summer: dormancy #AcademicSky

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in. n.pr/4y1iOmF

Philip Glass' new symphony premieres at Tanglewood after Kennedy Center cancellation

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.

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Encounters with objects at the amazingly eclectic V&A East Storehouse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a...

A One-on-One Date With a Museum’s Treasures

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I am really grateful to have had the chance, this summer, to slow down, reflect, and learn from an amazing group of fellow faculty at different stages of their teaching careers. #AcademicSky #Pedagogy #RISD www.risd.edu/news/stories...

Davis Educational Foundation Grant Supports RISD’s Teaching & Learning Lab

New and expanded programming focuses on inclusive teaching and critique practices and building a deeper sense of belonging among RISD faculty members.

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I saw *Black Swan* at the American Repertory Theater today. Amazing dancing, choreography, lighting; the music was mostly for mood. Interesting to see a creepy Aronofsky film become a weirdly-sinister version of 42nd Street. #BlackSwan #A.R.T. #musicals

New issue of Fandom | Cultures | Research is out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/issue/vi...

Enjoying the topical range in the latest issue of Reception, including essays on "unhinged women lit.,” the popular reception of Maxwell Anderson’s Mary of Scotland in the 1930s, "literary scrap" on Tumblr, and the "leather suit of Christ" in medieval performance. #Reception #ReceptionStudySociety

Just finished When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, by @berondam.bsky.social. Such a powerful book. The trees remember.

Stephan Michael Schröder’s “Possessing Actors and Actresses: Theater Stars and Early Film Stars on Postcards in Comparison” analyzes why fans collected postcard images of stars, across late-19th-C. theater and early-20th-C. cinema. #FanStudies #FandomHistory link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Agata Łuksza’s “Celebrities and Confectionary: The Edible History of Theater Fandom” argues that desserts and delicacies functioned as affective intermediaries for late 19th-C. theater fans, fusing memory, desire, and admiration. #FanStudies #TheaterFandom link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In my annual Fan Cultures seminar, the final assignment is a case study. Students’ recent topics ranged across media, language, and culture, including fandoms for Honkai Impact 3rd, Taskmaster, Cluely, LCK, Bato, Lypsinka, and American Girl. Wonderful reading—and mutual learning. #FanStudies

Faulknerian stream-of-consciousness is not for everyone, but this one-sentence WWI novel by Daniel Kraus is an astounding piece of writing: violent, surreal, and moving. It also made me think of the film 1917. What is with WWI and the use of a single shot/sentence? #AngelDown #booksky

The relational drama of Springsteen fandom, articulated with sympathy and intelligence. Highly recommended. #FanStudies #Fandom #Springsteen www.bloomsbury.com/us/springste...

Springsteen Fandom

Springsteen Fandom: "A Lifetime Conversation" explores the experience of the Bruce Springsteen musical fandom as a mutual exchange between artist and…

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Nice piece by Barack Obama on “The Music That Made Us” in the current Rolling Stone (June 2026): “Great music has a way of helping us feel seen; more than that, it helps us see others, enlarging our hearts and our moral imaginations.”

In “’Long Live Mrs. Heiberg!’: Fame, Theater and the Birth of Fan Culture in Nineteenth-Century Copenhagen,” Clement Räthel explores fannish audience reactions to Danish theater celebrity Johanne Luise Heiberg. #FanStudies #FandomHistory link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

I just finished leading a 3-day faculty institute on “Difficult Conversations and Collaborative Learning.” Having extended conversations with colleagues about teaching was truly inspiring. However, I now also may need a couple of quiet days of jigsaw puzzling and watching cricket.

In “‘His God is Rossini’: Enthusiastic Opera Audiences in Restoration Paris,” Lindsay A. Weaver discusses the dilettanti at the Théâtre-Italien in the 1820s as a recognizable community of fans before the 20th century. #FanStudies #FandomHistory link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In “The Search for a Deep Time of Theatrical Fandom,” Peter W. Marx explores the historical implications of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theater’s recirculation of older forms adoration and veneration. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #FanStudies #FandomHistory

“Naming Historical Fans” summarizes my research on the range of English-language terms used to describe an avid person before “fan” emerged in the 1880s. #FanStudies #FandomHistory link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Abstract for “‘A Dear Child with Many Names’: An Introduction to Expanding the History of Fandom”, by Daniel Cavicchi and Stephan Michael Schröder. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

NEW BOOK: Admirers, Fanciers and Devotees: The Early History of Fandom. E-book version released today: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #FanStudies #FandomHistory

Newest issue (22.1) of Participations is out! :) Featuring articles on female audiences of true crime, Zimbabwean sungura music, news and civic participation, multilingual audiences in Solapur, Italian film culture, German public service media platforms & mixed-reality art! www.participations.org

See you at the Festival. #NewportJazz2026

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Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

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