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3/8/03 session 1

Turn Your Radio On: The Responsibility of Media to Musical Communities

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Roots to Routes:
American Vernacular Music on Public Radio
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Abstract: I don’t see theoretical differences, as much as practical distinctions, between academic and public work. As the producer and host for public radio’s American Routes, I play the role of a creator and performer as much as critic or scholar in presenting and interpreting community-based music forms as they are transformed in social, cultural, economic and aesthetic terms to reach wider audiences for vernacular and popular culture.