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FROM ROOTS TO ROUTES: A CONVERSATION WITH NICK SPITZER

 

In Fall of 2017, the Missouri Audio Project and the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri had the pleasure of co-hosting Nick Spitzer, producer and host of the radio show American Routes (NPR). Spitzer is a folklorist, professor of anthropology and American Studies at Tulane University. He sat down for conversation with Sean Gurd. They talked about making radio, crafting segues, defining creolization, recording prison music, and locating the vernacular humanities. 

 

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Julija Šukys is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she teaches the writing of creative nonfiction. She is the author of Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007) and Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimait? (Nebraska, 2012), winner of the 2013 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature. Šukys is the co-founder of the Missouri Audio Project.
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