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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New #culturerover: Nobody’s Fool—Dolly Parton spoke for us, on the higher frequencies. www.michaeljkramer.net/nobodys-fool/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New #culturerover: Solidarity Forever—Can a revived & reimagined notion of solidarity help the left avoid being divided and conquered yet again by an increasingly authoritarian right? www.michaeljkramer.net/solidarity-f...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New #culturerover #unfamiliarquotations: Surprise! Greil Marcus on the job of the critic. www.michaeljkramer.net/surprise/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Red Scare Hits the Silver Screen: Students in History 212 Modern America—US Since 1865 at @sunybrockport.bsky.social's Department of History imagine Cold War containment era film posters. www.michaeljkramer.net/red-scare-hi...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

New #culturerover: Flipping—are federalism & localism reversing in the USA? www.michaeljkramer.net/flipping/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New #culturerover: Nothin’ On—does the Boss’s cable-tv era ennui still hold true? www.michaeljkramer.net/nothin-on/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." - FDR, 1936 millercenter.org/the-presiden...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

New #culturerover: One Cartoon After Another, history gets untethered in One Battle After Another & we are left with the problems of caricature. www.michaeljkramer.net/one-cartoon-...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

New #culturerover: The Flimsiest, the cynical faux-realism of The Brutalist. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-flimsiest/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

@sunybrockport.bsky.social Spring 2026 Public History Webinar Series. sunybrockporthistorydept.net/sunyhistoryl...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Does anyone know the name of this Civil Rights activist who appears in the Eyes on the Prize documentary being interviewed by a reporter. "My freedom is very much entangled with the freedom of every other man. So, I’m fighting for my own freedom here," he remarks. But he is not named in transcripts.

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New #culturerover: The Play of Levels, hypothesizing cultural criticism in US intellectual history. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-play-of-...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New #culturerover: The Dissonance of Dissidence—Theater Apparatus, Václav Havel’s Protest @ MuCCC/Rochester Fringe Festival @rochesterfringe.bsky.social, 10 september 2025. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-dissonan...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New #culturerover: Outstretched—Commotion Dance reaches out in Opus @ MuCC/Rochester Fringe Festival @rochesterfringe.bsky.social, 9 September 2025. www.michaeljkramer.net/outstretched/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

New #culturerover: Those Times of Revolution—In Los Lobos’s 1996 “Revolution,” the words say one thing, the music another. www.michaeljkramer.net/those-times

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

New #culturerover: Get Out the Way, Old Dan Tucker returns as ICE agent? www.michaeljkramer.net/get-out-the-...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Get out the way Old Dan Tucker. www.facebook.com/reel/4151252...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Jasper Johns, Two Flags (Black) (crop), 1970-72. For more, see "We Carried You In Our Arms, on Independence Day—images & sounds for July 4th." www.michaeljkramer.net/we-carried-y...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

New #culturerover: More Than a Face—the gaze & the visage. Unmasking masking in the 2020s. www.michaeljkramer.net/more-than-a-...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

New #culturerover: Brushing Against the Body, on The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020, @mcachicago.bsky.social www.michaeljkramer.net/brushing-aga...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

New #culturerover: X Musks the Spot—on Jill Lepore’s sci-fi history of Elon Musk. www.michaeljkramer.net/x-musks-the-...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

New #culturerover: Sam Shepard Returns—In two recent productions, Sam Shepard’s plays remind us that family traumas have long afterlives. www.michaeljkramer.net/sam-shepard-...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

New #culturerover: Shades Drawn, Icarus had feathers & wax, but he didn’t have a smartphone, www.michaeljkramer.net/shades-drawn/.

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New #culturerover: Kidsoterica—if you or anyone in your life needs a playlist of weird kids music, proceed. www.michaeljkramer.net/kidsoterica/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

New #culturerover: Love In, @aimbykyleabraham.bsky.social “love on one another” in An Untitled Love @ Nazareth College Arts Center, 24 January 2025. www.michaeljkramer.net/love-in/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

New #culturerover: A Fast One, was the image that won the presidency in 2024 not a fist raised after an assassination attempt, but a hand holding out french fries at Mcdonald’s? www.michaeljkramer.net/a-fast-one/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New #culturerover #photojournal: The Dismantling of Higher Education. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-dismantl...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

New #culturerover #photojournal: Political Signs, www.michaeljkramer.net/political-si...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Sue Draheim, Jim Bamford & Mac Benford of Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band, ca 1968. Photo: Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, bfmf.net. #bfmf

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

New #culturerover #photojournal: Calligrasphalt. www.michaeljkramer.net/calligraspha...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

One-man band Jesse Fuller performing at the 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival's opening concert on Sproul Plaza (campus of the University of California). From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Pete Seeger & chair 63 at the 1963 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Photo: Roland Jacopetti. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Rock concert promoter Bill Graham at the 1967 Mills College Rock 'n' Roll Conference (which included Phil Spector, Tom Donahue, Marty Balin & others). Photo: Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New #culturerover: Phonies—in the new Apple “Intelligence” ads, AI is actually about artificial affect. www.michaeljkramer.net/phonies/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New #culturerover: Tents—abodes that forebode. www.michaeljkramer.net/tents/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New #culturerover: Exceptionally Unexceptional—in Civil War, there is no american exceptionalism. www.michaeljkramer.net/exceptionall...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New #culturerover: Rattle & Hum—on Jim White’s drumming. www.michaeljkramer.net/rattle-hum/

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The CBC Band Searches for the “Filmore”: some ongoing questions about music & protest. A brief talk delivered for Music & Protest in Historical Perspective, LePage Center for History in the Public Interest, Villanova University. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-cbc-band...

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New #culturerover: Big Shoes to Fill—Bridgman Packer Dance, Ghost Factory @ Sloan Performing Arts Center, University of Rochester, 25 October 2024. www.michaeljkramer.net/big-shoes-to...

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