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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 5d

Somehow, in a seminar today, I was able to connect The Summer I Turned Pretty to William Bradford’s initial impressions of Cape Cod. Some students sat straight up!

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 15d

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist | The Booker Prizes

As the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is announced, we’ve picked out the most interesting facts, trends and themes that have emerged in this year’s selection

thebookerprizes.com

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Dr. Carla Della Gatta @carladellagatta.bsky.social · 20d

My article on how the performing arts can be incorporated as a method for public humanities has just been published in the online, open-access journal, Public Humanities. Free to download. #publichumanities #AcademicSky #PerformingArts #HigherEd #theatre #arts
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 24d

Just got an email that they're doing a 2025 reprint of The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, which now is also free to download! Essays by a lot of good people: mdpi.com/books/reprin... #mdpi via @MDPI

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 24d

The J. Geils Band, Love Stinks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPjA...

Love Stinks

YouTube video by The J. Geils Band - Topic

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 24d

New essay on early 20th-century Gilbert and Sullivan fandom, by James Brooks Kuykendall, in the latest Transformative Works and Cultures (Vol. 46):
doi.org/10.3983/twc....

Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45) | Transformative Works and Cultures

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 29d

Yes! I knew of FDR’s (and ER’s) interest in the arts as a social force, but the research in this book was revelatory.

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 29d

Quick note: Sheryl Kaskowitz’s *A Chance to Harmonize* came out in paperback today. Great read about the controversial music programs of the New Deal’s Resettlement Administration and, especially, the women--Margaret Valiant and Sidney Robertson--who shaped them.
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ch...

A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time

How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time

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Jeff @pophistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

Bruce Springsteen to release fabled electric version of 1982 album Nebraska. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Bruce Springsteen to release fabled electric version of 1982 album Nebraska

Studio versions of the stark, home-recorded album have never been issued, but will appear alongside new Springsteen biopic

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Feeling old: I actually have to explain, on the first day of class, that the brain is the most important and enduring “education tool."

Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Sep 2

Prague

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hmm. I’m assuming there is a reason for that. We, too, have a gaggle (a rafter?) that regularly stops traffic up in here in Mass., by the Great Woods. Usually during rush hour.

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 30

She has been stopping traffic on College St. since last spring. Someone notified animal control back then, but obviously nothing came of it….

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Aug 30

psst: new Pop Conference call. Repost please. www.popconference.org

PopCon | 2026

PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.

www.popconference.org

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Washington Black on Disney+ is an outstanding watch; I hope it encourages people to read Esi Edugyan's novel, as well. #WashingtonBlack #EsiEdugyan

Cover of the Washington Black novel, depicting the Jules Verne-like flying machine featured in the story.

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 13

My History of Listening seminar this Fall will open with David Toop: "Because sound vanishes into air and past time, the history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, 'silent’ arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature."

Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 13

A Who

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 7

New online essay from *Popular Music,* with open access: Chris Anderton and Paul Goodge, "Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience | Popular Music | Cambridge Core

Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience

www.cambridge.org

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 5

I am also trying in-class reading reflections this year. We should report back!

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 4

I did the same! I had been streaming their album all year and was hoping to take an LP home. Hopefully, fans can find their way to Colemine Records. I’ll also be looking for their live shows at other venues.

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Aug 4

My 12th Newport Jazz Festival this past weekend. Loved: Tyshawn Sorey Trio’s masterclass in composed improv; the surprising beauty of Fleck, Sanchez, and Castañeda's banjo/drums/harp combo; and Parlor Greens’ ferocious grooves. Long live the trio. #NewportJazzFestival

Musicians on stage, in front of a large “Newport Jazz” banner: Aaron Diehl on piano (l), Harish Raghavan on bass (c), and Tyshawn Sorey (r) on drums.

Musicians on stage, in front of a large “Newport Jazz” banner: Béla Fleck on banjo (l), Antonio Sanchez on drums (c), and Edmar Castañeda (r) on harp.

Musicians onstage, in front of a large “Newport Jazz” banner: Adam Scone on organ (l), Jimmy James on electric guitar (c), and Tim Carman (l) on drums.

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Jul 30

Favorite line from Richard Russo’s new book of essays, Life and Art: “Becoming educated, for my mother, was not unlike entering the witness protection program."

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Walkman was released this week in 1979, a few years later multiple US states tried to criminalize using a Walkman… newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgot...

The Forgotten War on the Walkman

The Sony Walkman is now iconic of the 1980s, eliciting nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of owning music, rather than renting it.

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Jun 27

Already loving discs 2 & 7!

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · Jun 27

My first (and only) major public book signing was in 1998 at Boston’s Tower Records, during a listening party for Springsteen’s *Tracks.* Needless to say, I will be completely immersed in *Tracks II* for the next couple of months. #Springsteen #TracksII #TrampsLikeUs

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