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J. A. Bowman's Personal Podcasts
by J.A. Bowman
I teach at a college in North Carolina, and I want to make sure my students have access to resources that can help them understand the course content. The podcasts I post are intended for this purpose. Enjoy!
Episodes
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Episode 15 - Religion, Pt. 2 - The Culture Wars
This episode finalizes our conversation about religion in the American South, though it also points backwards to some of the earlier ideas we studied. The goal in putting religion at the end is to get you to think back on the earlier episodes so you can see how the current cultural wars are…
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Episode 14 - Religion, Pt. 1 - Origins in the South
This episode gives a broad overview of religion in the early American South. It delves into a bit of theology, including some of the ideas and approaches that people of varying faiths/ideologies used in their attempt to reach/understand God. These concepts are linked to the growth of religion in...
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Episode 13 - Music, Pt. 2 - the Blues
This episode continues and expands the conversation from the prior episode by looking at musical traditions handed into the South from Africa. This is a large topic, one that cannot possibly be covered in such a short episode, but the information I have shared is intended to help you start that...
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Episode 12 - Music, Pt. 1 - Country Music
In this episode, we cover some of the roots of music in the South, though we specifically focus on country music. Our study of this genre is intended to think about the music in a broad way, though further reading and study will certainly be necessary to understand this topic more. Nonetheless…
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Episode 11 - Race, Pt. 4 - The American Civil War to the Present
In this episode, we finish our examination of the history of race in the American South by examining this history in broad terms. Again, the goal of the podcast is not to do a deep dive into this history; rather, it is to provide some inroads for you, the listener, to learn more about these…
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Episode 10 - Race, Pt. 3 - Beginnings to the American Civil War
In this episode, I offer a broad overview of the history of race in the American South. By necessity, this is an overview and not a deep dive, but the information contained in the episode should give you the tools you need to explore further. My hope is that as you listen, you will find some hook...
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Episode 8 - Race, Pt. 1 - General Discussion
In this episode, I share an overview of the topic, offering some observations about why we all need to have a discussion about race. I also pull from my experiences teaching this class for a decade in order to give some broad observations that will perhaps trigger food for thought. My goal, as I...
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Episode 9 - Race, Pt. 2 - Ideas about Race
In this episode, I offer some of the philosophies and ideologies that have guided people's treatment of each other throughout the history of the American South. The purpose of this episode is to offer the groundwork needed for the next two episodes. My goal is to articulate those ideas in such a...
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Episode 7 - Gender and the South, Pt. 2 - Roles, Roles, Roles
This episode went long -- very long. Nonetheless, the information contained here will give you an overview of four main categories of gender roles in the American South: white males, white females, black males, and black females. This conversation sets out a foundation for your understanding of…
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Episode 6 - Gender and the American South, Pt. 1 - Basic Terminology
This episode explores two basic terms used in the social sciences - sex and gender. Though these terms have many other definitions associated with them, my goal is to provide an overview of the specific definitions so that my audience can understand how they can be used to analyze gender in the...
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Episode 5 - Writers and the South, Pt. 2
This episode turned into a monster, so be prepared for a longer account than usual. It is because there is so much ground to cover on any given topic, so the one topic I did pick -- the idea of race -- offered a lot of ground to cover. Nonetheless, I skim through many important writers and what...
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Episode 4 - Writers and the South, Pt. 1
In this episode we examine the role that art plays in any given culture, and we then use a story about the American South to consider how one particular author, William Faulkner and his "Odor of Verbena", can reflect and challenge traditions from the region. The goal of this essay is to help you…
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Episode 3 - The Economy and the South
In this episode we're going to give an overview of the economy of the South. To be clear, this episode is not intended to get into the granular details of the South's economic history -- there is no way to do this in 30-40 minutes -- but the episodes does offer the tools you will need to 1)…
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Episode 1 - What Is Culture?
In this episode, I offer an overview of culture, including some definitions that will be useful, a thought experiment that will serve you well on your journey into culture, and some specific examples of culture from around the world. The goal of the episode is to get you to think about how...
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Episode 2 - Where Did the South Come From?
This is a long episode, but it captures the four main groups discussed in the reading, and it provides some inroads you can use to further explore those groups. As I noted at the end, this podcast is by necessity brief, and I wish I could speak for an hour about each of the ones I cover. Since I...
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Episode 16 - Cash Value, Campbell Soup, and Columbus
We covered a lot of ground in this podcast series, but one important question is worth returning to here at the end (or the beginning?): Why in the world does this content matter? With math we can balance our checkbooks, with accounting we can make sure we never bounce a check, with science we…
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Episode 15 - Whitman and Dickinson
In this episode we briefly explore two of America's greatest poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Though our introduction is short, I share some of the common themes that run through their work, and I talk give a few keys to help you as you read through their poems. These poets are well worth...
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Episode 14 - Jacobs and Douglass
In this episode, we examine the contributions to American literature made by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. Though the episode does not break down the plot of these texts, it does provide an overview of some of the common themes running throughout their works. Use the information here to...
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Episode 13 - Emerson and Thoreau
In this episode I provide some foundation for your study of Emerson and Thoreau. Though I cover a lot of ground, there is still much, much more to study. These are not easy texts, so my goal is to give you the foundations you need to properly engage with the texts rather than, as with some of the...
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Episode 12 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our studies have recently shifted to people who are writing for the sake of evoking an American character in their work. Irving and others sought to capture the new nation through monsters and folksy tales, and those tales are now embedded in our national consciousness. The focus now shifts to...
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Episode 11 - A Pivot: Irving, Cooper, and Sedgwick
To this point in our course, we have been studying people who telling stories about creation, exploring, colonizing, conquering, creating a revolution, or hungry (or any combination of those). We now move to authors who are creating art that represents the American character as we know it today....
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Episode 10 - American Contexts
In this episode, we pause to consider the various voices emerging out of the American Revolution. Though our class concentrates upon the literature of the United States prior to 1865, the voices emerging out of this larger dialogue can help us to see that the past is not so different from the...
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Episode 9 - Thomas Paine
In this episode, I offer a few key concepts needed to understand the arguments made by Thomas Paine in his work Common Sense. Though his work would have been more or less easily accessible to his contemporaries, it can prove dense to a modern audience. I offer the gist of the three sections of…
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Episode 8 - Olaudah Equiano
In this episode, I provide some background information on the slave trade, a bit of information on Equiano himself, and some ideas you can look for in his work. This is a difficult topic to address, but my hope is that by listening to a brief summary of the horrors of the slave trade that you…
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Episode 7 - Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
In this episode, we will examine some of the essential keys needed to understand Franklin's Autobiography. These keys can give you inroads to understand his personality and his work, though keep in mind that the size and scope of his writing means that others are available as well. My intent is…
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Episode 6 - Edward Taylor and Jonathan Edwards
This episode discusses some of the historical and theological ideas that can help you better understand these two men and their works. Though this is not an exhaustive list of concepts, it should provide some basic keys to help you unlock the concepts both writers have addressed. As I noted in…
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Episode 5 - Bradstreet and Rowlandson
To this point in the course we have studied a great number of texts written by men for other men. This episode--which is a little longer than usual--concentrates on unlocking the complicated lives of two women whose experiences illustrate both their own personal desires and the world around them....
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Episode 4 - Smith, Bradford, and Frethorne
In this episode we explore the background needed to understand the movement of English-speaking colonists into the Chesapeake Bay and Cape Cod areas. This episode is presented as a way to give you inroads into these writers and their works, though there is still much, much more to learn. The...
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Episode 3 - Columbus, de Vaca, Champlain
This episode offers you some insight into Columbus, de Vaca, and Champlain by giving you some key insights into the reasons for their narratives, the framing of their writing, and the main characteristics of their various purposes. There is much, much more to explore, but this gives some general...
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Episode 2 - Native Americans
This episode follows your reading for the Native Americans in The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2. Make sure to see the specific page numbers required as found in the course module. Episode image: Engel, Jordan. Tsalagi Map of the United States. The Decolonial Atlas,...
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