Michael J. Kramer teaches history, American studies, and digital humanities at Northwestern University and writes about culture and the arts for a variety of publications.
Northwestern University Biography Page
CV (pdf)
The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
(Oxford University Press, December 2012).
Book Blog
(coming soon).
Culture Rover
-a blog and podcast of cultural and arts criticism.
Issues in Digital History
-thoughts on digital history and the digital humanities.
The Fictive Kin Ship:
-a podcast of musical trade routes and buried treasures (coming soon).
ARTiculations: Performing Arts Print Programs in the Digital Age
-a multidisciplinary collaborative public humanities project about the new possibilities for the playbill and performing arts print program.
The Berkeley Folk Music Festival and the Digital Study of Vernacular Music
-an online, interactive learning environment for the study of vernacular music.
The Berkeley Folk Music Festival: A History
-a coffeetable book, with photographs, recordings, interviews, and more.
Way Out West: The Folk Music Revival on the West Coast
-a monograph that rethinks the American folk music revival from the perspective of the left coast.
The 1976 Bicentennial and the Redeclaration of America
-a monograph and digital humanities project about an understudied national moment in the 1970s.
In the Vernacular: Rethinking Common Culture
-what is the vernacular? This study examines this enduring concept of ordinary life, the spaces and practices of existence so commonplace that we often forget their significance.
Paul Goodman: An Intellectual Biography
-a new study of the life and ideas of the mid-twentieth-century intellectual, with an emphasis on the artistic and political dimensions of his anarchist sensibilities.
Arts Criticism in America: A Review
-a history of the development of arts criticism and writing in the United States.