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Author, musician, bandleader, poet, activist. Professor & Director of the Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech University. Ex oil-field roughneck, lobster fisherman, medieval musician, carpenter, line cook. Direct the TTU Celtic Ensemble Teach Anglo-Celtic and African American roots musics. Proud New Englander (grew up in the "Spirit of 76" home town), political activist. Heard MLK speak in my stroller.

"A man got to have a code." --"Omar Little", "The Wire"

day job: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/Facult...
commercial site: http://coyotebanjo.com
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Dieselpunk as historical critique

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Operating Premise #1: An arts aesthetic is a situational response to a particular artistic/historical moment and context. Deco, Arts & Crafts, Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic, avant-garde, Baroque aesthetics are all responses generated as a result of human experience within specific historical contexts, and their meaning both derives from, moves through, and reve

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	The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celtic Back-Up for All Instrumentalists 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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