tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79444797605302713472024-03-14T03:07:44.649-06:00News from David K. DunawayWe feature news and information about noted author, scholar, and radio producer, David. K. Dunaway.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-87360903134676670792023-04-14T13:31:00.006-06:002023-04-14T13:31:56.257-06:00Renaissance Glassers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVwYtW6RsVIv_7iNVYBE4me2oPmbgUoYvXQJeiM6qT7RfXRoCCFu3qg49EtsJODDL9yGOtQ5YeIfSacc3Z5o15ZNjzeHTH73rY7tas46I3_utLtU1PrgcgcDBIC65E_WVVkxo93pfZuTJIMvzAqmZoulNNnjgz88gclu1X_VPQwJyzHzL0OAuhWD77gA/s320/Renaissance%20Glassers%20post.png" width="320" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Glassers were held in high regard during the Renaissance because glasses were a symbol of deep intellectual knowledge. Check out more glasses facts like this and join the conversation on Instagram and Facebook (@weareglassers)!<br /></div>David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-62794108597822233962022-09-19T16:44:00.002-06:002022-09-19T16:57:14.876-06:00Is Privacy Possible in the Metaverse?<p>Everyone's talking about the Metaverse, a through-the-looking-glass meld of
virtual, augmented, and online worlds in cyberspace.But few are discussing its
delivery system—smart eyeglasses and headsets--and if these will reshape the
public sphere into a goldfish bowl. VR’s immersion substitutes one reality for a
dreamier version. A dream, or perhaps a privacy nightmare.</p> <p>What is a reasonable
expectation of privacy in public: In a car? On a porch?</p> <p>Very quickly,
smartglasses will redefine what’s public, as we’re surrounded by those who
record audio and video and stream this as they pass by. Facebook says don’t
worry, theirs has a little light to alert passersby. Common sense says some
people will patch over that. What if someone puts smartglasses next to the bed,
turned on. How will such recordings be used and stored? These serious questions
deserve study before the devices become widely used.</p> <p>Opaque or clear, Rx or not,
stylish or not, glasses that compute are the future of visual aids. Smartglasses
are “smart” because they’re computer- and phone-enabled. They come in three
varieties: Augmented- (AR), Mixed- (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR).</p> <p>AR and MR
smartglasses overlay a hologram on your lenses or on a transparentscreen, or
even on your retina. Both types accomplish this by using minicameras to survey
surroundings and situate you.</p> <p>The wide-angle lenses, processors, and holographic
projectors miraculously fit into something like a standard-sized eyeglass
temple, paired with a computer or smartphone. MR smartglasses aim for
interaction with surroundings. VR glasses transport you to a new reality by
obscuring your sight. They’re vacations hanging on your nose, therapy without
the couch.</p> <p>Smartglass applications are exploding. Surgeons operate while
streaming images to a classroom. Skiers use head-mounted displays to monitor
speed, elevation, and weather. Hunters wear them to factor in wind speed when
taking aim. In such glasses, how will society function when everyone is tuned in
and won’t come out?</p> <p>The impulse to immerse ourselves in another world is
centuries old, but by 1930, science fiction had already VR glasses: “You speak
to the shadows and the shadows reply…would that make real a dream?” wrote
Stanley Weinbaum in Pygmalion’s Spectacles. Then there was the early ‘60s
Sensorama, sitting in a cabinet you watched a film while experiencing vibration,
smell, and sounds. Unfortunately, odors drifted from one scene into the next,
creating an unappetizing Smell-o-Rama. Mention smartglasses and people think of
Google Glass. Google expected its “Glass Explorers” to be technology leaders.
Instead, they got thrown out of bars for surreptitious recording. Legal problems
mushroomed. Scientists demonstrated how the device could capture passwords at an
ATM, by filming finger shadows as people tapped in numbers.</p> <p>Since Glass was
withdrawn, dozens of devices have been hung or strapped on. New uses emerged:
checking floor plans, testing designs, and advertising. Product placement is
coming. One day a ten-foot-tube of toothpaste could float before your eyes.</p> <p>Yet,
smartglasses have a lot to offer: reminders to take medicine, reading aids to
the blind; help on the job, and much more. Smartglasses could the first computer
widely worn. But not so fast. Tolstoy wrote that in an unequal society, “as ours
is, every victory over nature will inevitably serve only to increase that
power.”</p> <p>Beyond privacy, what concerns me most are the powerful dissociative
effects of the metaverse, as represented in the film Ready Player One, where
people in VR gear dance alone in their apartments and children play with
pre-programmed imaginary friends. When we disassociate, we forget who we are as
individuals and as a society. With this comes the inability to believe our eyes.
We call this “seeing things.” “The party told you to reject the evidence of your
eyes and ears,” Orwell commented in 1984. “It was their final, most essential
command."</p> <p>Left behind in the real world could be the qualities which distinguish
humanity as a species: concern for nature, empathy, mutual understanding.</p>
David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-83987812192630601382019-10-31T00:00:00.000-06:002019-10-31T00:00:00.166-06:00HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!💀 I hope all you Glassers have a fantastic time today and this weekend!! Let the spirit of Halloween rush through you!!👻
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvIEf5_nEvnBTC_m95OtQfgm-ONSCp-ijXwIYTkzeViPXKwhJ1-Qond1BQkix68c35FNAhnsF3pC83PnFVwb-KUQtNgZj0leUkK9rEtPlL5Pepl20qvZQGEyoIbNJU7MvDCY-70_Q17sea/s1600/witch-1421050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvIEf5_nEvnBTC_m95OtQfgm-ONSCp-ijXwIYTkzeViPXKwhJ1-Qond1BQkix68c35FNAhnsF3pC83PnFVwb-KUQtNgZj0leUkK9rEtPlL5Pepl20qvZQGEyoIbNJU7MvDCY-70_Q17sea/s320/witch-1421050.jpg" width="320" height="213" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1065" /></a></div>David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-713364848743557622012-03-19T12:02:00.000-06:002012-03-19T12:04:12.109-06:00Review of A Route 66 Companion at Publishers WeeklyA Route 66 Companion<br /><br />Edited by David King Dunaway. Univ. of Texas, $19.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-292-72660-4<br /><br />Route 66 has a long and interesting history, and Dunaway--the recipient of Berkeley's first Ph.D. in American Studies--has done a fantastic job selecting works of literature about "America's Main Street" to tell its dynamic story, supplemented by the editor's own invaluable commentary. The pieces span all genres, from poetry to memoir to detective fiction to SF. The first chapter tells of the early years, when in 1858 Lieutenant Edward F. Beale surveyed the prospective route for a wagon road with a caravan of camels. That path became a railroad in the 1890s, and finally a highway in 1926. From there, the selections are split into sections focusing on a different regional area of the famed road. In "Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas," the autobiography of Will Rogers--the man for whom the route was named--is excerpted. Also included is a selection from The Negro Motorist Green Book, a text detailing establishments open to African-Americans in the 30s. In the New Mexico and Arizona chapter, Mary Toya writes of growing up in the "Indian Camp" in Winslow, Arizona, where families lived in boxcars and were not permitted to leave their homes at night. A selection from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is included in this chapter as well. "66 is the path of a people in flight," he wrote. The California chapter has many great pieces, but Sylvia Plath's poem "Sleep in the Mojave Desert" is a definite standout in this all-around remarkable anthology. Illus. (Feb.)<br />Reviewed on: 03/12/2012David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-55694719463555952442012-02-21T08:34:00.000-07:002012-02-21T08:35:59.336-07:00February 20122012 opened quickly. A few days after it began, I was packing up the car for that fifteen hundred mile drive to San Francisco. Which I really don’t mind, for it gives me a chance to look over the year and understand a few things that I might not have seen while I was living through it. The power of retrospection. <br /><br /><br />This summer, I found myself among the great faculty at Berkeley as a Knight Digital Media Fellow. This was an intense workshop with almost every software usable in multi media thrown at us at once. The crowd was a distinguished one from major institutions including everything from the National Geographic to Al-Jazeera. At the end, we promised to work on at least one piece, which I am now finishing. Then in the fall, I had my keynote to give in Denmark and some radio teaching there; and, even further, I then gave a keynote in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the fifth international conference on music and media. It almost knocked me out, listening to Portuguese for 6-8 hours/day; but my Portuguese improved some. It’s always strange to be loosed on your own into a vast foreign city like Sao Paulo. The best part was that I got to see my son Alexei in Rio, for a week or so. We hiked, wandered around, helped settle him in a bit and buy groceries, and had some magical moments on a balcony overlooking the famous christus statue. Rio is astonishingly beautiful and its beaches are very accessible and fun. Alexei was just getting started on his Brazilian adventure, and he was kind enough to let me enter his world as it was just forming.<br /><br /> <br /><br />So between Denmark and Brazil, it was a Keynote year, and one of significant travel. I am just glad that these opportunities for the long work I have done. <br /><br /><br />Going back to Berkeley as a student triggered memories of my times there which were not entirely pleasant. The campus is beautiful, but the competitiveness among the graduate students was disconcerting when I was there. Not as bad as Harvard Law School where they say you always have to bring extra pencils to the exam because if you drop one, the person next to you is sure to step on it. But I remember my now-deceased professors grilling me and holding up impossibly high standards, as we struggled to read a book/week/class and write something intelligent and groundbreaking. Well, too late. They gave me my degree, and I’m roaming the world. But those memories of seminars at which students left in tears still haunt me. <br /><br /><br />Finally back in San Franciso, where the food and entertainment is of higher quality at higher cost. I’m staying in a tiny little house which manages to be both quiet and desirably located in the Irving Avenue district. But it is tiny. I’ll get used to it--kind of like a hotel room with a kitchen attached. But any place in San Francisco offers great possibilities for adventure and offbeat behavior. Both of which I enjoy. <br /><br /><br />Over and out for now, <br /><br /><br />DavidDavid Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-39219798297525829642011-12-15T13:34:00.000-07:002011-12-15T13:35:00.161-07:00Choice Magazine Reviews Singing OutIn the December 2010 issue of CHOICE magazine, the American Library Association's publication covering the latest in academic publishing, there is a favorable review of "Singing Out: The Ballad of Pete Seeger." An excerpt from their review:<br /><br />"Each chapter tells its story through quotations from Dunaway's interviews with a wide variety of people and commentaries from the authors. The scheme works well because of the fascinating opinions and insights that many famous artists and distinguished scholars from different times and places bring to each topic." p. 509-510David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-78677672473863656882011-07-25T13:33:00.000-06:002011-07-25T13:34:28.642-06:00DenmarkI'm in Denmark now. Great trip. Updates soon to come!David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-57342371050586251312011-05-20T15:45:00.003-06:002011-05-20T15:54:51.673-06:00Knight Digital Media Center Fellowship --Over the past week, I've been involved in an intensive project with an amazing team of designers and journalists at the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkely. We spent multiple 14 hour days developing a multimedia project about an establishment in Oakland, CA that offers "Holistic Veterinary Care." You can see the product of our work in this embedded YouTube clip.<br /><br />It was a great experience, and I met some wonderful people--some of my fellow KDMC fellows work at places like the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and Time Magazine. Although we worked long hours, I'm coming away from this project energized and in possession of a new set of skills.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O4ho3RyXCEg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-7625052907821231552011-03-18T09:46:00.002-06:002011-03-18T09:51:47.676-06:00Spring Sounds...It's almost Spring; the birdies are remembering their voices and back home in New Mexico, little green tongues are rising from the black soil. I'm back teaching in San Francisco, Queen City of the Pacific. The first weeks were balmy, then foggy and now the weather will try to make up its mind. It's great fun doing the occasional radio show on KALW or KPFA--or any other Bay Area station that could use a veteran folkie D.J.<br /><br />Classes in Radio/Documentary Studies at San Francisco State are filled with wonderful, seeking folks. It makes me proud. One asked for a sticky, dripping sound. Omitting the obvious (and unprofessional), I suggested honey, heated in a microwave and dropped on a metal sheet from 2 feet above. As it cools, it drips.<br /><br />Back at you soon.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-9655982477472712572010-12-03T11:22:00.003-07:002010-12-03T11:33:41.020-07:00New Release!!! Pete Seeger Discography<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Pete-Seeger-Discography-Seventy-Recordings/dp/081087718X"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4lIH1Mtt5HyhX2lySq_8D4Mszwj_FDnh73VRZP1TNowEJqu-Y1X6kS2hXi6R6ClICXjitW6OSzbV7X6cNXa8hzjsP3dBrZGf8L7TzWQbJC2XHcKZziDjwnPAfFlb7xpt61EHU82gkNwtu/s200/seegerdiscographyimage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546524484855707538" border="0" /></a>Our Pete Seeger discography is forthcoming from Scarecrow Press in December! Below, you'll find our <a href="http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/Singlebook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdatarq=081087718X">publisher's</a> description of the book:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. <em>A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings</em> is a comprehensive listing of the 45s, 78s, LPs, and CDs recorded by Seeger in his various incarnations: with the Almanac Singers, with the Weavers, as a solo artist, and with other musicians and contributors. David King Dunaway provides information, with easy to use cross-references, on rare recordings and archival collections.<br /><br />The discography offers details on Seeger's recording history, including the album title, song(s), other artists on the recording, the publisher and number, and the year or exact recording date if known, as well as the original release date and the re-releases of each recording. Structured to make locating details easy for readers, the recordings are organized chronologically and categorized by albums, singles, private pressings, and foreign releases. Readers can easily cross-reference through album and song title indexes and a contributing artist index. An appendix listing the unreleased archival holdings of the Smithsonian Folkways collection under Moe Asch completes the volume, and a photospread with more than 30 of Seeger's album covers convey a pictorial recording history of this well-loved artist.<br /><br />The authors gratefully acknowledge Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their funding assistance in preparing this discography.</span>David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-84499672691900893612010-11-29T13:09:00.002-07:002010-11-29T13:19:50.452-07:00BEA Best of Festival - Faculty Audio Winner: David Dunaway<object width="450" height="278"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5YxczfFuO1o?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5YxczfFuO1o?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="278"></embed></object>David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-74356241271413960392010-11-15T12:17:00.005-07:002010-11-15T12:47:42.245-07:00David Dunaway Receives Vox Populi Award!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkooHA4l_8UzZngxQKTaM6eIjpYR5MbfbNsUoawLTwKBAtHY3Irglk3YOqaLW9XeQdo_Obltwm1u_FIPcVEBbz1gsnKxxOs3cHdzHYCG1K7BnzIVrBjpXxq-i2lY4Z5qjQ9EqwxjdURLGG/s1600/David+%252B+Stetson+Kennedy+Vox+Populi+2010.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkooHA4l_8UzZngxQKTaM6eIjpYR5MbfbNsUoawLTwKBAtHY3Irglk3YOqaLW9XeQdo_Obltwm1u_FIPcVEBbz1gsnKxxOs3cHdzHYCG1K7BnzIVrBjpXxq-i2lY4Z5qjQ9EqwxjdURLGG/s320/David+%252B+Stetson+Kennedy+Vox+Populi+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539861142343327298" border="0" /></a>Dr. Dunaway was the first recipient of the Oral History Associations’<span class="il"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vox</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="il">Populi</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(“Voice of the People”) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Award</span>, given by renowned author/investigative historian <a href="http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/">Stetson Kennedy</a> at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association in Atlanta.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ABOUT THE VOX POPULI AWARD</span><br />The intent of the Stetson Kennedy <span class="il">Vox</span> <span class="il">Populi</span> Award is to stimulate, and give recognition to, collections of oral histories taken from individuals who have devoted much of their lives to activism designed to bring about change for a more democratic, just, peaceful, and harmonious world. In choosing Dr. Dunaway the Committee recognized not only his body of work over the years, but the singularity of documenting social protest in folksong through “<a href="http://www.peteseeger.org/seeger/">How Can I Keep From Singing and Singing Out: An Oral History of America’s Folk Music Revivals”</a>. Mr. Kennedy -- who made the presentation -- is the only living subject of a Woody Guthrie song.</span><br /><br />You can find further information about the OHA <span class="il">Vox</span> <span class="il">Populi</span> Award and about the conference at the <a href="http://www.dickinson.edu/oha">Oral History Association website.</a><br /><br />Dr. Dunaway's acceptance speech for the award is printed below:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >My thanks to the local organizers, to the award committee (which I’ll be helping in future</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > years), to Stetson Kennedy, and to my editor at Oxford, Nancy Toff. But we all owe our thanks to</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > the brave men and women who sparked, and survived, the civil rights movement here in Georgia,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > where so much of it began, and where there were so many leaders.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >I was too young to go South in that time; I joined friends of SNCC, at the northern edge</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > of the movement. But, it’s an honor to be surrounded by so many real activists.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Now, talking about the civil rights movement, the FBI played a still-uncharted role in this</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > movement. We really need to know more about this! Some of you know that I sued the FBI under</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > the FOIA, for its records on musicians in the 40s and 50s—one form of historical activism.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > Before I deposited two thousand pages at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, I</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > asked the FBI if these files still existed. No, came the answer, but they did have a file on one</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > David Dunaway—folksinger. Well, for me, that’s definitely a promotion and a new opportunity.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >So, in the spirit of Stetson’s friend Woody Guthrie, I’ll close with a snatch of song (to the</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" > tune of “Acres of Clams”). Woody wrote when an FBI man asked if he’d fight for his country:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >I answered the FBI: Yea,</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br />I will point a gun for my country,</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br />but I won’t guarantee you which way.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Thank you.</span><br /></blockquote></div>David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-42417265154836538962010-09-01T12:55:00.003-06:002010-09-01T13:02:36.802-06:00Instant Downloads of "Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?" on TradeBit.com<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tradebit.com/usr/music/covers/vol6/d/a/daviddunaway/daviddunaway.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 130px;" src="http://www.tradebit.com/usr/music/covers/vol6/d/a/daviddunaway/daviddunaway.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />You can access instant downloads of my Radio Documentary series about Pete Seeger and his fellow musicians at <a href="http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/5191201-david-dunaway">tradebit.com</a>.<br /><br />Check it out!David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-56514762878113965422010-09-01T12:07:00.003-06:002010-09-01T12:22:29.916-06:00A New Review of "Singing Out" in the Journal of MusicIn the current (August/September 2010) issue<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Journal of Music</span>, Peter Rosser reviews my recent book, coauthored with Molly Beer, <span style="font-style: italic;">Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals. </span>An excerpt from the review reads, "...Dunaway, in an important and excellent new book, co-authored with Molly Beer, has uncovered the true life of folk music in North America as it progressed through the world-altering twentieth century."<br /><br />Read the <a href="http://journalofmusic.com/article/1186">full review</a> at <span style="font-style: italic;">The Journal of Music <span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>online.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-37924437909470844372010-08-17T13:26:00.001-06:002010-08-17T13:26:22.428-06:00Busy SummerI'm finally back from my many journeys this summer. I was part of a conference and television program in Prague and I had the chance to lecture in South Africa while visiting my son. During my time away I've also been keeping my hometown projects moving along.<br /><br />I just submitted a proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities for the America's Cultural and Historical Organizations Planning Grant. The grant was nearly accepted last year, but got caught up in some legal wording. The new proposal has even more interactive and advanced resources for interpreting Route 66, though, and I'm very excited to see where this takes my work.<br /><br />I also have a book on Route 66 coming out with University of Texas Press in the spring. It will be an anthology of literature and oral histories that reveal the many facets of Route 66.<br /><br />This fall I'll continue my work here at the University of New Mexico, teaching my course on autobiography, and next spring I'll return to San Francisco State to resume my post as Distinguished Professor of Broadcasting. A lot of good projects and good work to be done this year, and I'm looking forward to it.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-65740710478572644992010-06-21T13:44:00.001-06:002010-06-21T13:49:44.490-06:00Summer TravelsI am off this summer for conferences, lectures, research, and leisure in South Africa, Mozambique, Prague and Copenhagen. Before I left SFSU in the spring I recorded this youtube clip elaborating on the work I do there. Please enjoy.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HTGjUoGxFI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HTGjUoGxFI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-70304340252369099082010-05-07T12:53:00.005-06:002010-05-07T13:11:21.631-06:00Singing Out just out from Oxford University Press<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVVTJ-nlm98lIvQQdRu1tNF-6GJNwM-smL1srdUkRl7xy1D5Ji42MAVC_DpS6I0UgkxqVR1beRHIoZZUgcTCyA_zN5nZfqDXRtRzGIcpHetAcU3giVY6BURLe9apTh11EZ5-wVh13b86G/s1600/SingingOutcover.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVVTJ-nlm98lIvQQdRu1tNF-6GJNwM-smL1srdUkRl7xy1D5Ji42MAVC_DpS6I0UgkxqVR1beRHIoZZUgcTCyA_zN5nZfqDXRtRzGIcpHetAcU3giVY6BURLe9apTh11EZ5-wVh13b86G/s320/SingingOutcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468603978898324770" border="0" /></a><br />SINGING OUT<br />An Oral History of America’s Folk Music Revivals<br />David King Dunaway and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.mollybeer.blogspot.com">Molly Beer</a><br />Release date: March 17, 2010<br />Publication date: May 6, 2010<br />$27.95 | 288 pages | hardcover (01)<br />ISBN13: 9780195378344 | ISBN10: 0195378344<br />Editor: Nancy Toff | Publicist: Carolyn Petri | Marketer: Samara Stob<br /><br /><br />Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="star-caretcode-i">Singing Out</span> offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music.<br /><br />Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement.<br /><br />The narrators highlight many of the major folk revival figures, including Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, Phil Ochs, Mary Travers, Don McLean, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, and Holly Near. Together they tell the stories of such musical groups as the Composers' Collective, the Almanac Singers, People's Songs, the Weavers, the New Lost City Ramblers, and the Freedom Singers. Folklorists, musicians, musicologists, writers, activists, and aficionados reveal not only what happened during the folk revivals, but what it meant to those personally and passionately involved.<br /><br />For everyone who ever picked up a guitar, fiddle, or banjo, this will be a book to give and cherish.<br /><br />Extensive notes, bibliography, and discography, plus a photo section.<br /><br />Read reviews and summaries or buy the book <a href="http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicHistoryAmerican/?view=usa&ci=9780195378344">here</a>.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-85912643273816435692010-01-28T13:18:00.002-07:002010-01-28T13:41:07.509-07:00Surviving the ElementsLike Hannibal crossing the Alps, I recently battled my way through three separate snow storms across the mountains while traveling from Albuquerque, NM to San Francisco, CA. This treacherous journey across mountain roads was inspired (or rather, required) by my semester long appointment at San Francisco State University as a distinguished visiting professor of Radio Studies. Perhaps this is just another prime example of the hard work professors willingly endure in order to inspire the minds of their collegiate pupils. I am looking forward to another Spring semester here at San Francisco State teaching Radio Documentary workshops.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-20024889992910207022009-08-13T10:51:00.002-06:002009-08-13T10:55:36.244-06:00A Three-Minute InterviewWhile I was out in San Francisco this past Spring, I was interviewed by the San Francisco Examiner for their "3-Minute Interview) series. You can read it here: <a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/SF-State-professor-digs-on-Pete-Seeger-44573872.html">S.F. State professor digs on Pete Seeger</a>.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-75879018609368259112009-07-27T12:39:00.002-06:002009-07-27T12:41:54.786-06:00Greetings from the other side!The other side of the pond, as they say. I'm spending some time in Europe before the fall semester starts up. At the moment I'm on a little (rainy) island off the coast of Scotland. In a few more days I'll be headed off to Copenhagen to meet up with some friends, old and new!David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-74094806070784543722009-07-26T12:03:00.001-06:002009-07-27T12:38:43.800-06:00Happy Birthday, Aldous!Today is the 115th birthday of Aldous Huxley, writer -- novelist, essayist, poet, screenwriter, and one of the great thinkers of our time.<br /><br />If you are interested in learning more, I've written two books on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Huxley-Hollywood-David-King-Dunaway/dp/0385415915/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2">Huxley: Huxley in Hollywood</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.davidkdunaway.com/images/dunaway-330-Huxleyhollywood.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 97px; height: 150px;" src="http://www.davidkdunaway.com/images/dunaway-330-Huxleyhollywood.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Aldous-Huxley-Recollected-Oral-History/dp/0761990658/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4">Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.davidkdunaway.com/images/dunaway-330-Ahrecollected.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 101px; height: 150px;" src="http://www.davidkdunaway.com/images/dunaway-330-Ahrecollected.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Both books are available in limited quantities from my website, <a href="http://www.davidkdunaway.com/">davidkdunaway.com</a>.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-91097588276280391342009-06-12T09:09:00.004-06:002009-06-12T10:14:37.614-06:00Back to the bosqueWe're back in New Mexico now, getting settled back in. It seems strange; though I've lived in this house for so many years I find myself having to remember where things are.<br /><br />Getting all of our computers up and running properly has been a minor nightmare, but I think we've finally got it fixed.(I hope!) Nonetheless, I'm enjoying the lovely view from my back yard, looking out over the bosque and the acquecias.<br /><br />Of course, three days after we got back to Albuquerque I jetted back to California for the annual meeting of the Route 66 ARC. It was a great and informative time.<br /><br />And now my collaborator, Molly Beer, and I are working intensely on final edits of our new book, <span style="font-style:italic;">Singing Out</span>.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-29648224726088031742009-05-20T12:16:00.003-06:002009-05-20T12:41:51.248-06:00Bay To Breakers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tqtgN3deDi4rL8Gcw3uYgGsiam2fKxn03W7Ng63Yc95z69UVDyUqhpgzkLpoMi9udlTs1W5iA0UpD48PSVwSyAWlR-RQtjcSwfgTUYF-EaniQ9Ied5LM8NDwqiRv90pChyphenhyphennEUDdXXKPF/s1600-h/pink+gorilla.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tqtgN3deDi4rL8Gcw3uYgGsiam2fKxn03W7Ng63Yc95z69UVDyUqhpgzkLpoMi9udlTs1W5iA0UpD48PSVwSyAWlR-RQtjcSwfgTUYF-EaniQ9Ied5LM8NDwqiRv90pChyphenhyphennEUDdXXKPF/s320/pink+gorilla.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337977477322001906" /></a>(<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/05/18/MNP017M7P2.DTL&o=0">photo by Brant Ward / The Chronicle</a></span>)<br />Today I ran Bay To Breakers, where you cross the entire city of San Francisco, and its hills, in one wild, costumed, race. I ran past people wearing butterfly wings (her companion was carrying a net, but I noticed that she eluded him); Green bras, pink bras, no bras; a flying pig (“flying pig beats swine flu”); people dressed as cars; six women wearing silver and red wigs of an identical size and height, so that they looked like clones; people dressed as salmon spawning on the street; people dressed as cars bumping into one another. <br /><br />And of course there was politics. Women protesting the invasion of wineries in rural Northern California who called themselves “Grapes of Wrath,” who dressed exclusively in balloons. Gorilla in a hot pink suit, or rather a person in a hot pink gorilla suit. Even Betty Boop, in lingerie. All in all, a strenuous route, and on a hot day, but an awful lot of fun. <br /><br />Finished in 1 hour, 40 minutes.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-17347853647025532662009-05-13T12:13:00.002-06:002009-05-13T12:19:26.005-06:00Some PressHere's a link to an <a href="http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2009/spring/34.html">SFSU News article</a> about my BEA win. And <a href="http://beca.sfsu.edu/node/283">another one</a> that is a bit older, but on the same subject.<br /><br />I'm out buzzing around the coast today. I'm in Point Reyes, CA and I'll be heading to Bolinas a little later in the day.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944479760530271347.post-30870817428599748642009-05-08T12:18:00.004-06:002009-05-08T12:29:26.467-06:00Pete's 90th from Madison Square Gardens<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXueDjnTBadtipubuQqCezYrEGNV7jOexwlwiu8IcuOCReyGRqFLihFM86SQGh6_9xGgdyjZAVvNd56uEKwrpgbi1CcVtf46KfMqIyiQyVAy7vcJg_54Uvjb6MD85HiPeI94qfgDyf8cmO/s1600-h/Pete+Seeger+and+Friends.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXueDjnTBadtipubuQqCezYrEGNV7jOexwlwiu8IcuOCReyGRqFLihFM86SQGh6_9xGgdyjZAVvNd56uEKwrpgbi1CcVtf46KfMqIyiQyVAy7vcJg_54Uvjb6MD85HiPeI94qfgDyf8cmO/s320/Pete+Seeger+and+Friends.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333521960386652498" /></a><br /><br />Photo: MSG Photos/George Kalinsky</span><br /><br />For those of you who, like me, didn't get to attend the sold-out concert at Madison Square Gardens, <a href="http://www.msg.com/photos/pete-seegers-90th-birthday-celebration/slide/1/">here are some great shots</a> by George Kalinsky and Chad Batka.David Dunawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618363392115928320noreply@blogger.com0