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Bryan Wagner

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Professor and writer working in legal history, vernacular culture, popular music, urban studies, and digital humanities. UC Berkeley.

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Homecoming: Dédé’s “Morgiane” Experience the world premiere preview of Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane,” the first known opera written by a Black American composer, presented through a collaboration between New Orleans’s OperaCréole and t...
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cindylee.bandcamp.com/album/diamon...

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#nowplaying

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Amazing book

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Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public D...

good things

16.12.2024 00:22 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

100%

15.12.2024 19:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice. Thank you.

12.12.2024 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Do we know if this was already set up as a mini mall at that time? I would be curious to know if this is in the same spot that became Shanahan's > Friar Tuck's > etc

12.12.2024 21:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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La Rumba De Mi Vida, by Franco et l'orchestre O.K. Jazz ‎ 22 track album

Planet Ilunga repressing this incredible collection

08.12.2024 20:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for this

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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
27.11.2024 17:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a ridiculously great book.

27.11.2024 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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this is so funny

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Los objetos de Colección Gladys Palmera - Radio Gladys Palmera Te presentamos una nueva sección, Objetos, con algunas de las piezas de museo de Colección Gladys Palmera. Te contamos cuales son.
25.11.2024 21:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have to be in there too

24.11.2024 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#COYS

23.11.2024 19:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Agree

22.11.2024 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had forgotten this, and we also watched the other night on Criterion, and it was when the green street car went by, that I was like waaaaait a minute

18.11.2024 20:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not watching, stuck in a sinkhole of work, but this is what I like to hear

17.11.2024 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a nice idea. I am one of them.

16.11.2024 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

thanks!

15.11.2024 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Genius of the Seventh Ward ⋆ Archeophone Records Thirty years before some fiddlers from Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia started recording a new genre of music called “hillbilly,” a Creole of color from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans named Louis Vasnie...

Exciting new work from Archeophone -- the discovery of arguably the earliest extant country music recording, from 1891, by Louis Vasnier, a Black Creole musician from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans.

15.11.2024 13:59 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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