
History Mixtapes
History Mixtapes explores how music and history intertwine. We will explore how the past can come alive by using music as a primary source, but also think about how listening to music and musical exploration can help us see the past through different lenses and lead us into new ways of connecting. We all tell stories with music: in playlists or mix tapes or other myriad mechanisms. And no one puts their story -- or the past's story -- to the same soundtrack.
Podcasting since 2024 • 6 episodes
History Mixtapes
Latest Episodes
HISTORY MIXTAPES - Poverty and Homelessness with Dave Hitchcock
In this episode, historian Dave Hitchcock, a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, discusses how his expertise in vagrancy and poverty in early modern England an...
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37:51

HISTORY MIXTAPES - Jazz and the Rhythm Club Fire with Karen Cox
This episode explores the music at the center of the story historian Karen Cox is currently reconstructing about the Rhthym Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1940. Jazz music becomes a character in her story, illuminating not just the lives...
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40:11

Extra Episode - Voices of WXPL: From New Kids to Metal Legends
In this episode, Katherine Jewell revisits her ongoing research into WXPL, the college radio station at Fitchburg State University. Despite being caught up with end-of-semester duties, she shares their her oral history project insights, includi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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6:09

HISTORY MIXTAPES - Punk and Precarity with Chris Deutsch
In the third episode of 'History Mixtapes,' host Katherine Rye Jewell and historian Chris Deutsch explore the intertwined histories of punk rock, hardcore music, and the political economy of the late 20th century. They discuss the origins of pu...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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35:46

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