The Stein, 11/10/1968

Dr. Fink To Send Expansion Letter -- Gregory Predicts End Of Two Party System -- Nigeria - Biafra -- Open Dialogs To Begin Here -- Art Theatre Announces First Play -- Student Unity Pays -- I.E.C. To Sponsor Black America Week -- New Lost City Ramblers To Appear Friday In UMP Gymhttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/stein/1009/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 11, 1964

New Lost City Ramblers to perform Friday: Agency sponsors blue grass group • Bombers bombed by MSGA, faculty reviewing • UC scholar wins St. Andrews scholarship • Survey supports APO projects • Loved you Conrad : Spring festival succeeds with new program • Bible fellowship • Two classes elect officers today • Pi Nu Epsilon inducts members • Ursinus Circle • Obituary • Editorial: Attention administration • Mr. Pennypacker stages a remarkable performance: Robbins, Sinclair, Auchincloss and Matusow star in production • Spring hits UC campus with sun, fun and studies • Next President: Johnson • Letter to the Editor • Ursinus thinclads retain MAC crown: Cooper wins two, Dunn ties 440 record; Gladstone, Robart, Walter, relay take 1st • Softballers win; Season undefeated • Batsmen even for week: Defeated Drexel, split with Haverford and lost to LaSalle • Tennis loses 3rd; Bryn Mawr takes 4 • Lacrosse wins 4th; Swamp E-burg 13-3 • MAC summary • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/3110/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, April 20, 1964

New Lost City Ramblers to close first concert season • Good organization and enthusiasm mark \u2764 Campus Chest drive: Over $1,500 collected for charity • Y to feature fun and discussion at Spring retreat • Spring Festival parts awarded • MSGA officers to be elected Tuesday; Cope and Wirth run for President • Otto Lee sees bright future for college grads • Mackey to speak on African tour • Sororities hold rushing parties • Editorial: Unlimited cutting • U.C. students visit Lincoln; African Negro strife discussed • APO closes books for Asia drive • Letters to the editor •$550 fine levied on book borrowed in 1929 • Next President: Goldwater • Drama & comedy double feature; Society Hill Playhouse • Eternal Fire exploits sex • Award winner: Tom Jones • Bears bow down baseball 4-2, 3-1 • Records fall as trackmen run over F&M and Lebanon Valley • Lacrosse team swamps Garnets: Swarthmore succumbs to stellar sticks, 15-0 • Tennis team loses 9-0 to Swarthmore • Valerie Moritz heads WSGA; Miller, Holmgren, Loux, Guest win • Soph weekend: Bon voyage a success • Choir receives standing ovation in first concert • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1271/thumbnail.jp

Events in the Arts 1968-1969

University of Maine Portlandhttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/art-exhibitions/1013/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 8, 1962

Former Ursinusite, now Africa expert, to address Forum Wednesday night • Soc. classes hear prejudice speaker • Volunteer U.C. students pitch in at local Catholic boys\u27 protectory • Dr. Pancoast takes oath as mayor of Collegeville • President\u27s report reveals 1961 data, interesting facts • Fifty students attend open meeting; MSGA\u27s Moll airs campus problems • U.C. receives $2000 from Standard Oil • Delaware museum offers five grants • Day students tell Y of difficulties • Bill Scholl named to MAC first team • Eye surgery to be topic of next pre-med meeting • Singers choose Kershner 1962 business manager • Editorial: The right not to participate • Ursinus in the past • The New Lost City Ramblers at Haverford College • All Italian highways lead to Rome, the city of colorful contrasts • Twenty freshmen answer Weekly competition call • Cagers still seek win key; Losing streak at five games • Grapplers crunch Haverford, 31 to 3, in season\u27s opener • Freshman wrestler Fred Powers adds strength in the 157 lb. weight class • Ursinus again to host county science fairhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1308/thumbnail.jp

"Backwoods": Rural Distance and Authenticity in Twentieth-Century American Independent Folk and Rock Discourse

The value placed on rural musicians is a consistent characteristic of independent popular music culture, particularly with respect to »lo-fi« aesthetics. Antipathetic to what they saw as excessively industrialised and commercialised popular music, urban folk and rock fans have recurrently sought satisfaction in musics of peripheral areas that were considered archaic or »primitive,« conflating musical and geographical distance. Beginning by tracing the roots of this process in Romanticism and folk revivals, I examine the cases and receptions of artists such as Roscoe Halcomb, Hasil Adkins, Beat Happening and Guided By Voices

Finding the avant-garde in the old-time: John Cohen in the American folk revival

This thesis explores aesthetic developments in the American folk revival by examining the career of John Cohen. As a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, Cohen was an influential figure in the revival during the late `50s and early `60s. A significant aspect of Cohen's outlook was his extensive involvement with avant-garde movements in art and literature. The approaches Cohen encountered among New York artists and intellectuals provided a paradigm from which he could understand the rough-hewn aesthetic of old-time country music. This thesis examines Cohen's aesthetic by mapping his background and associations in art, photography, and folk music, giving special attention to the connections he saw between folk revivalism and the avant-garde. It then examines his work recording and promoting Roscoe Holcomb, a traditional singer from Daisy, Kentucky, to demonstrate the application of these ideas and connections