Music Culture

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Don’t Lose Track

22 January 2026
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Those Times of Revolution

18 September 2025
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Get Out the Way

29 August 2025
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Cold War Tones

28 July 2024
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Limning Simon

12 July 2024
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We Go Cruising

10 February 2024
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Harry Smith Speaks

10 January 2024
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Wall of Sound

31 October 2023

The Garden in the Machine

12 April 2023
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2023 March 23—Folk Music Data

2 March 2023
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She Fell In Love

24 February 2023
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Rockumentrarianism

24 December 2022
Mance Lipscomb Silouette Greek Theatre 1961
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Mance Lipscomb’s Silhouette Talk

28 October 2022

The Republic of Rock

15 October 2022
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What Is Mountain Music?

22 September 2022
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Elementary

20 September 2022
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The Golden Toad

18 August 2022
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2022 October 14—Mance Lipscomb’s Silhouette

1 August 2022
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2022 September 30-October 01—The Berkeley Folk Music Festival & the Northern California Counterculture

31 July 2022
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2022 August 25—Alan Lomax’s Transatlantic Ballad

30 July 2022
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Chance Operations

8 June 2022
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Rovings

31 May 2022
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Emissaries From Woodstock Nation

15 May 2022
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Digitizing the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive

9 May 2022
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Rovings

30 April 2022
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2022 May 02—Folk Music Data, Or, The Celestial Monochord and the Global Jukebox

26 April 2022
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Jerry Garcia: The Singer of Folk Songs

10 April 2022
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Soul By Proxy

2 April 2022
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Rovings

31 March 2022
Mance Lipscomb Gradient
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Defamiliarizing Digital History

17 March 2022

Revising Humbead’s Revised Map of the World

16 March 2022
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2022 April 14—The Singer of Folk Songs

9 March 2022
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Rovings

28 February 2022
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Folk Music Emergency Exit

10 February 2022
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Rovings

31 January 2022
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Rovings

31 December 2021
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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

25 December 2021
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Only in Music

19 December 2021
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Music of the Mind

17 December 2021
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Rovings

30 November 2021
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2021 November 19—Taking a Virtual Folk Music World Into Virtual Reality

10 November 2021
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Rovings

31 October 2021
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The Gap Band

25 October 2021
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Talkin’ Berkeley Folk Music Festival

15 October 2021
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Connections in Sound

12 October 2021
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Hitting a Nerve

10 October 2021
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Rovings

30 September 2021
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Rovings

31 August 2021
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The Berkeley Folk Music Festival & the Folk Revival on the US West Coast—An Introduction

22 August 2021
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Rovings

31 July 2021
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This Anthem Was Made For You & Me?

2 July 2021
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Rovings

30 June 2021
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Rovings

31 May 2021
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One Should Never Be Where One Does Not Belong

21 May 2021
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The Counterculture in The World of Bob Dylan

10 May 2021
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Beyond Culture As Compensatory Politics

4 May 2021
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Rovings

30 April 2021
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2021 May 22—Dylan@80 Virtual Conference

27 April 2021
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Rovings

31 March 2021
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Rovings

28 February 2021
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Berkeley Folk Music Project Receives NEH Funding

9 February 2021
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Rovings

31 January 2021
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Rovings

31 December 2020
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Rovings

30 November 2020
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Sonification & Cultural History

19 October 2020
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Some Glimpses of Pete Seeger

12 October 2020
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Rovings

30 September 2020
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The Berkeley Folk Music Festival on KPIX News in 1968

22 August 2020
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Mance Lipscomb at the 1961 Berkeley Folk Music Festival

3 August 2020
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Talkin’ Folk Music—Panel Discussions @ the 1959 Berkeley Folk Music Festival

1 August 2020
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Rovings

31 July 2020
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Chuck Berry at the 1965 Berkeley Blues Festival

10 July 2020
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Syllabus—Situation Critical

30 June 2020
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Rovings

30 June 2020
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Janis Joplin @ the 1963 Monterey Folk Festival

29 June 2020
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Folk Songs Containing Multitudes

21 June 2020
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Resounding Truth

7 June 2020
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Rovings

31 May 2020
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Rovings

30 April 2020
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Aretha’s Occupy

2 April 2020
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Rovings

30 March 2020
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Lesson Plan—”R-E-S-P-E-C-T” & the Social Movements of the Sixties

29 March 2020
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Rovings

28 February 2020
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Rovings

31 January 2020
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Jerry Garcia at the 1962 Winter Berkeley Folk Music Festival

16 January 2020
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Thinking the Blues

7 November 2019
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How Does It Feel?

11 September 2019
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Rovings

31 August 2019
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When Woodstock Was “Wild East” Op-Ed

22 August 2019
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A People’s History of the 1970s

15 July 2019
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Music Can (Almost) Change the World

8 July 2019
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Busted

14 June 2019
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Conquering Space in the Sixties

27 May 2019
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Eleanor Pontikes’s Jammin’ with Jerry

24 May 2019
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Gabby Meeks’s Nina Simone: The Life, Legacy & Activism of the High Priestess of Soul

24 May 2019
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Rhys Glennon’s Atomic Folk: The Folk Music Revival and the Bomb

24 May 2019
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2019 June 06—Keep on Rocking in the Free World

21 March 2019
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Digitizing Folk Music History Artist Residency: Anna Roberts-Gevalt

21 March 2019
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2019 April 06—When Woodstock Was the “Wild East” Festival

19 March 2019
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Mapping Humbead’s Map Interactively

23 February 2019