045 - Josh Garrett-Davis - What is a Western?
Episode 45 of the Writing Westward Podcast podcast, hosted by Brenden W. Rensink & the BYU Redd Center, titled "045 - Josh Garrett-Davis - What is a Western?" was published on September 9, 2022 and runs 63 minutes.
September 9, 2022 ·63m · Writing Westward Podcast
Summary
A conversation with Josh Garrett-Davis about his essay collection, What is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019). Josh Garrett-Davis is the Gamble Associate Curator at the Autry Museum of the American West, author of multiple books and many public-facing shorter articles and pieces. He collected some of these, and penned a number more, for his richly illustrated essay collection, What is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019). ----more---- Podcast Notes: Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
Episode Description
A conversation with Josh Garrett-Davis about his essay collection, What is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).
Josh Garrett-Davis is the Gamble Associate Curator at the Autry Museum of the American West, author of multiple books and many public-facing shorter articles and pieces. He collected some of these, and penned a number more, for his richly illustrated essay collection, What is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).
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Podcast Notes:
- Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
- Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
- Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
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