Sustainable Music

The Scholar and His Books (1641), by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, courtesy Wikimedia Commons An update to keep track of my writing projects h...

The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a sister organization to, but unaffiliated with, the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM). AMS is f...

An update to keep track of my writing projects has become an annual event. Since my last update, on Dec. 16, 2023, which writing projects ha...

Roaring Falls, Glacier Bay National Park. Courtesy National Park Service.       Toward the end of the last century, William Cronon deconstru...

Robert Winslow Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, c. 1923, examining an archeological artifact in California. Courtesy of...

Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Courtesty of Zenith 4237, Wikimedia Commons.     On Saturday, November 4, our DERT (Diverse Environmental...

     If you’ve watched much cable news or streamed other programs lately you’ve probably seen the ads for a dietary supplement called “Balan...

The University of Southern Maine   Public education is under fire in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Arkansas and elsewhe...

    Two of my long-term writing projects are finishing up now: a book that has been in production at the publisher (Oxford University Press)...

  Orca whales jumping. Photo by Robert Pittman, Wikimedia Commons.             Even if they haven't read the novel, m...

Jeff Titon (electric guitar, left) and Lazy Bill Lucas (electric piano, right) performing at the People's Park, Dinkytown, Minneapolis, ...