The Mixtape Museum (MXM)

Create an environment that encourages dialogue between scholars, music professionals, and enthusiasts on the mixtapes various functions in society.

The Mixtape Museum (MXM) is an archive project established to collect, preserve, and share knowledge concerning mixtape history.
The MXM is devoted to advancing public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and impact mixtapes have made around the world. While encouraging the research of mixtapes as records of time, place and situation, it will also examine the individuals that have shaped their existence. Through exhibitions, publications, symposia, collaborative projects, and other partnerships, our aim is to create an environment that encourages dialogue between scholars, music professionals, and enthusiasts on the mixtapes various functions in society.

ACLS Announces 2013 Public Fellows Program

The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for the third competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 20 recent humanities PhDs in two- year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. This career-launching initiative aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.
In 2013, Public Fellows have the opportunity to join one of the following organizations:
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Boogie Stomp! documentary film tells the story of boogie woogie origins

#boogie stomp.com documentary film, Boogie Woogie, Detroit Bob Baldori, Bob Seeley Chuck Berry, Meade Lux Lewis. Dan Cassidy is in the film. Learn the Irish etymology of Jazz, Jizz, Jive & Boogie.

Bob Seeley and Bob Baldori Friends of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc.

Boogie Stomp! is a documentary film that will tell the story of boogie woogie, its origins, subsequent history and ongoing development while profiling its two greatest living players – Bob Seeley and Bob Baldori. Seeley spent his formative years playing with Meade Lux Lewis and other Jazz greats. Though playing in obscurity for decades at Charley’s Crab in Detroit, he became known to insiders as the best boogie and stride player in the world.
Learn the Irish etymology of Jazz, Jizz, Jive & Boogie.
Find footage of American Book Award Winner Daniel Cassidy who said, “We used the words boogie and boogaloo to mean move fast or depart quickly with no reference to music.”~ Dan Cassidy
Find The source of giniker and the source Jazz. Word origin of Jazz, Irish American Vernacular English and the hidden influence of Irish and Scots-Gaelic on what we call American English, and the history of Jazz.
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MUSIC – DOUG MARTIN, GUITAR, GYPSY JAZZ

VIRTUOSO DOUG MARTIN OUTSTANDING FRIEND OF THE CYBERPLAYGROUND!!!
Doug Martin www.dougmartinguitar.com explains Gypsy Jazz percussion Hand strumming. Learn how to perform la pompe percussive strumming stype.
6000 VIEWS LATER !!!!
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Lulo Reinhardt Latin Swing Project – Katharina. Live in Melbourne

AND DOUG PLAYS GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR WITH WORLD REKNOWN LULO REINHARDT NEPHEW OF DJANGO REINHARDT
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