Friday Forum: Glenn Gass, 'Whatever happened to the Summer of Love?'

Join the Department of Art, Design and Art History (DADAH) for the DADAH Friday Forum lecture with rock historian Glenn Gass.

 

Gass is Provost Professor of Music in the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, and author of History of Rock Music: The Rock-and-Roll Era.

 

Gass’ lecture is titled: 1968: WTF Happened to the Summer of Love? He teaches a series of courses that he developed on the history of rock and popular music that were the first to be offered through a music school and are now the longest-running courses of their kind in the world.

He is the recipient of the Herman B Wells Lifetime Achievement Award, Indiana University Sylvia Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award, IU Student Alumni Association Student Choice Award, Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award, and other teaching awards and honors. He was inducted into the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching and is author of A History of Rock Music: The Rock & Roll Era (McGraw-Hill, 1994).

Gass is a member of the Education Advisory Board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. He is the recipient of grants in composition from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and Indiana Arts Commission.

 

The lecture will be at noon Friday in Sverdrup, Room 123, and like all DADAH events is free and open to the public.  

Friday, March 9, 2018 at 12:00pm

Sverdrup Complex, 123
8300 Big Bend Boulevard, 63119

Event Type

Curious Conversations, Art & Performances

Categories

Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts, Art

Cost

free

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