UCLA Today features Bill Roy, author of Reds, Whites, and Blues
Updated: 2010-08-31 17:00:14
, , , New in Print New Book E-Mails Bestsellers 2009 PUP Home Blog Aug 31 2010 UCLA Today features Bill Roy , author of Reds , Whites , and Blues by Jessica Pellien Filed in : American History Music Political Science Sociology Twitter 11:39am EST Over at UCLA Today they are featuring the work of one of their own Bill Roy , author of Reds , Whites , and Blues : Social Movements , Folk Music , and Race in the United States If you click through you will be able to listen to exclusive music from their archives and view some archival . material Here a quick sampling from the interview that captures the early days and looks to the : future UCLA Today : What was the first progressive cause in America to use what you’d consider to be folk music Roy : That was probably the American Revolution with
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New in Print New Book E-Mails Bestsellers 2009 PUP Home Blog Aug 27 2010 BOOK FACT FRIDAY by Leslie Nangle Filed in : Applied Science and Engineering Astronomy and Cosmology Mathematics Physics Twitter 5:02pm EST FACT : After President Kennedy challenged the nation to put a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth , 8221 it was obvious that more than seven astronauts would be needed . The second group of nine astronauts , referred to as the new nine , 8221 was selected in September 1962 and included Neil Armstrong and Jim . Lovell Space–the final frontier . It’s as little as fifty miles away , and yet it is considered one of the most dangerous and remote of places . Popular television shows such as Star Trek and movies such as Apollo 13 and October Sky have fired the imaginations of
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