Anthropologist aaron fox, and fox writes Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its badness are frequently framed in specifically racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans specifically, country is bad music because its precisely understood as a claim to witness, not as a condition of lacking or trying to shed race, but as a marked foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, progressive politics or elite musical culture. So i want us to think about that. Country music as articulating, conveying this type of very marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz, and her book red dirt which is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the descendants of the original settlers as a peoplianited despite class differences or social
On the date of his asasstation senator he was in baton rouge visiting the legislature, in particular the house of representatives and visiting with the speaker of the house at that time. They were here. In fact, as you like to and you accompany me, well walk to the speakers desk where huey and eleneder had just finished a conversation or were discussing everything. You will get an idea that from there you can see the entire chamber. You have to remember, huey long, while being a handson governor was also a handson senator and never really felt like he was no longer governor. O. K. Allen was the governor at the time, but huey long still wielded great influence in the legislature, even more so, some say, because now he was a u. S. Sitting senator. So, as we walk, this is where they would have been, and the last known photograph taken of huey long, prior to his assassination was huey long standing right about where this chair is, and the speaker of the house who was presiding, watching th
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer. Covering over one third of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. I suspect you also know that the job youve been
Weve all been there over past years. This year they are still there but this year we are also asking ourselves much more fundamentally, are we seeing the beginning of the end of the westernled order after liberal International Order. We know why were asking the question now, its President Trump. But its also much more structural than that. Its been coming for a very long time. The rise of china. P populism in europe. Brexit. Explosions in the middle east. And we have to ask ourselves, number one, can china or anyone else step in . Number two, if they cant, will we have an order without a leader and what does that mean . And number three, is to the extent that u. S. Leadership is taking a big hit, can the americans get it back . I think to answer those questions, theres no one better to kick it off than senator john mccain. Senator . [ applause ] thank you, thank you for the kind introduction. And can i say, trying to follow bono reminds me of the story of the actress gentleman gentlema
A different class, a fun topic. What we are doing is continuing that series on cold war topics. We have talked about central america, we have talked about the wars. We are talking about cultural cold war. The war over culture and that fight for influence. Jazz comes tot the forefront. We are thinking about why that congo whenhrough the they are traveling to farflung places of the world. What are they doing . We will impact that. That. To start with please tell me recognize that. Yes it is Louis Armstrong. You know who it is. You cant miss that smile. He is americas most prominent jazz musician. He had already to lord toured. He was a prominent figure in not just american jazz but American Culture generally. Thise we get into packing , it washe same author extract the part of the book that deals with africa. In have the jazz ambassadors the cold war and africa. We are talking about everything they did. And how they perceive their role. Image and weo this can spend 30 minutes talking abo