With over 260-million views on YouTube, Donald Glover’s (aka Childish Gambino) “This is America” actually repeats history. By that I mean to state that Glover is using song and wit to tell a story.[1] As a cultural historian, I appreciated Glover’s approach to satirize deep-seeded problems in American society. But the expression of topics in musical form is nothing new. (more…)
June 10, 2018
“Wonders of Surry!” Exploring Broadsheet Ballads from the mid-Eighteenth Century
Posted by Joe Krulder under Blog Post | Tags: Admiral John Byng, Ballads, Broadsheet ballad, Cornwallis, Donald Glover, Effingham, General James Stuart, Mary Frith, Robert Bertie |Leave a Comment