William Zantziger, a.k.a. William Zanziger, a.k.a. the subject of one of Bob Dylan's best early songs, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," died a week ago at the age of 69 in a nursing home in Maryland.
Hello, I'm John Paul Meyers. I recently defended my dissertation in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation is titled "'Rock and Roll Never Forgets': Memory, History, and Performance in the Tribute Band Scene." My dissertation examines tribute bands both in the United States and in Latin America, paying particular attention to what I term "historical consciousness in popular music": the sense that the past in popular music is worth knowing about, remembering, and in the particular case of tribute bands, re-performing as accurately as possible. I'm currently in the process of turning this research into a book. I also write about jazz, popular music, and American culture--all three of those things understood as broadly as possible.
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