Historian Publishes Multimedia Essay
Dr. Michael J. Kramer (Associate Professor of History) published “The Transatlantic Ballad of Alan Lomax” this June. The multimedia essay explores how a “reverse” transatlantic experience produced unexpected transnational maps and theories of song and culture.
Dr. Michael J. Kramer, Associate Professor in the Department of History, published “The Transatlantic Ballad of Alan Lomax” this June at Transatlantic Cultures, a new website that “decodes the dynamics of the cultural exchanges that have developed between Europe, Africa, and the Americas since the end of the 18th century.” The multimedia essay explores how the US ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s “reverse” transatlantic experiences in 1950s Europe produced unexpected transnational maps and theories of song and culture.