Event overview
This Music Research Series talk has been cancelled due to strike action by the UCU.
As part of the Music Research Series, Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson discuss how midcentury records taught America to dance.
In this interdisciplinary talk, Borgerson and Schroeder reflect on the role of popular dance records and their covers in the midcentury imagination and their significance in the story of American identity. They discuss record cover design and photography, as well as liner notes and music, to illuminate how dance records – records for social dancing, intended to accompany, celebrate, and teach popular dances of the day – encouraged cultural confidence and greater ease with cosmopolitan identities, leading the postwar US population onto the dance floor and out into the wider world.
Janet Borgerson is a Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University. Jonathan Schroeder is the William A. Kern Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Borgerson and Schroeder live together, collect vinyl together, and have written three books together. They have also sung together since they were very young, starting in a youth choir directed by Janet’s mother. Their book Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America (MIT Press) was named as one of the best books of 2017 by the Financial Times and a best music book of 2017 by Vinyl Factory.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Mar 2020 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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