Michael J. Kramer
michaeljkramer.bsky.social
Michael J. Kramer
@michaeljkramer.bsky.social
Historian, SUNY Brockport
Editor, The Carryall: US Cultural & Intellectual History thecarryall.org
Director, Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project bfmf.net
#culturerover: Promiscuous Cultural Criticism culturerover.net
Union, UUP
More: michaeljkramer.net
New #culturerover: The Play of Levels, hypothesizing cultural criticism in US intellectual history. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-play-of-...
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New #culturerover: The Dissonance of Dissidence—Theater Apparatus, Václav Havel’s Protest @ MuCCC/Rochester Fringe Festival @rochesterfringe.bsky.social, 10 september 2025. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-dissonan...
September 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
New #culturerover: Outstretched—Commotion Dance reaches out in Opus @ MuCC/Rochester Fringe Festival @rochesterfringe.bsky.social, 9 September 2025. www.michaeljkramer.net/outstretched/
September 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
New #culturerover: Those Times of Revolution—In Los Lobos’s 1996 “Revolution,” the words say one thing, the music another. www.michaeljkramer.net/those-times
September 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New #culturerover: Get Out the Way, Old Dan Tucker returns as ICE agent? www.michaeljkramer.net/get-out-the-...
August 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Get out the way Old Dan Tucker. www.facebook.com/reel/4151252...
August 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
August 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
July 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Jasper Johns, Two Flags (Black) (crop), 1970-72. For more, see "We Carried You In Our Arms, on Independence Day—images & sounds for July 4th." www.michaeljkramer.net/we-carried-y...
July 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New #culturerover: More Than a Face—the gaze & the visage. Unmasking masking in the 2020s. www.michaeljkramer.net/more-than-a-...
June 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
New #culturerover: Brushing Against the Body, on
The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020, @mcachicago.bsky.social www.michaeljkramer.net/brushing-aga...
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
New #culturerover: X Musks the Spot—on Jill Lepore’s sci-fi history of Elon Musk. www.michaeljkramer.net/x-musks-the-...
May 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New #culturerover: Sam Shepard Returns—In two recent productions, Sam Shepard’s plays remind us that family traumas have long afterlives. www.michaeljkramer.net/sam-shepard-...
April 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New #culturerover: Shades Drawn, Icarus had feathers & wax, but he didn’t have a smartphone, www.michaeljkramer.net/shades-drawn/.
April 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
April 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New #culturerover: Kidsoterica—if you or anyone in your life needs a playlist of weird kids music, proceed.
www.michaeljkramer.net/kidsoterica/
April 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
New #culturerover: Love In, @aimbykyleabraham.bsky.social “love on one another” in An Untitled Love @ Nazareth College Arts Center, 24 January 2025. www.michaeljkramer.net/love-in/
January 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New #culturerover: A Fast One, was the image that won the presidency in 2024 not a fist raised after an assassination attempt, but a hand holding out french fries at Mcdonald’s? www.michaeljkramer.net/a-fast-one/
January 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New #culturerover #photojournal: The Dismantling of Higher Education. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-dismantl...
January 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
January 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Sue Draheim, Jim Bamford & Mac Benford of Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band, ca 1968. Photo: Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, bfmf.net. #bfmf
January 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
December 25, 2024 at 9:01 PM
One-man band Jesse Fuller performing at the 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival's opening concert on Sproul Plaza (campus of the University of California). From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf
December 23, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Pete Seeger & chair 63 at the 1963 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Photo: Roland Jacopetti. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf
December 16, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Rock concert promoter Bill Graham at the 1967 Mills College Rock 'n' Roll Conference (which included Phil Spector, Tom Donahue, Marty Balin & others). Photo: Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf
December 2, 2024 at 10:20 PM