Book Review

Congratulations to Michael Kramer for being a Finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly for his review, “Social Criticism and Intellectual History” about books by Shatz and Scialabba!

About the Reviewer

Michael J. Kramer is the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the director of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. He is currently working on a book about the 1976 US bicentennial celebrations and is co-editing a volume of selected essays by the social critic Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture. Future books examine folk music and technology’s odd relationship and experimental dance outside New York City in 1970s America. Kramer edits The Carryall, an online journal of US cultural and intellectual history, and writes the cultural criticism blog Culture Rover. He is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport campus, where he directs the SUNY HistoryLab and helps to coordinate the Museum Studies and Public History Interdisciplinary Minor. More information about his work can be found at his website, michaeljkramer.net.

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