A History of Rock and Roll
Postcards
Tuesday, January 9 - 6:00
p.m.
Delta Township District
Library - 5130 Davenport Dr., Delta Township (just NE of the Lansing Mall)
Wally
Jung, a postcard collector for over 25 years, will present a history of popular
music form the 1940s through the present, as illustrated in picture postcards.
The program follows how radio and television shaped music into a major cultural
force in the 1950s and 1960s.
Besides
being a collector, Wally Jung is also a portcard dealer and show promotor. His
interest in pop cuture led to a degree in American Studies from Michigan State
University, and another degree in photography from Lansing Community College.
War and Speech: Propaganda,
Patriotism, and Dissent in the Great War
Exhibit Tour with Curator
Shirley Wajda
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 -
6:00 p.m.
Michigan State University
Museum - 409 West Circle Drive
Exhibit Open November 11,
2017 – November 11, 2018
War
and Speech: Propaganda, Patriotism, and Dissent in the Great War explores, through the
MSU Museum’s extensive World War I poster and militaria collections, the new
ways in which Americans understood civic duty and civic speech.
The
techniques of persuasion that helped to shape the modern world were developed
for and during the Great War (1914-1918). In the United States, posters,
cartoons, songs, and other popular culture were designed to mobilize the entire
home front, to make every adult and child feel intimately involved with the war
effort. At the same time, Liberty Loan campaigns, military parades, and other
activities to support the troops as they trained and fought featured all
aspects of military life, from the doughboy’s field kit to hard-won battlefield
trophies brought back in victory.
Paradoxically,
during this first world war to defend ideals of democracy and freedom, state
surveillance and restrictions on dissent increased. These powerful images of
persuasion simultaneously extended a promise of inclusion to all Americans in
the life of the nation, even as women, African Americans, Native Americans, and
others struggled for long-denied civil and political rights.
Propaganda
posters produced by the United States government, by commercial lithographers,
and by average citizens created a new, modern way of signifying patriotism and
the American people. War and Speech provides a window to
that moment, framing Americans' ideas about nation and citizenship in this
critical historic era.
New Date, Location for
Postcard Show
The
next Lansing Postcard Show will be held Saturday, January 27, from 10:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. at the Masonic Lodge, 2175 Hamilton Rd., Okemos. For more
information, check the website: postcardarcheology.com.
