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Considering Culture: Music and Food in Interwar America

  • Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL, 60610 United States (map)

*ONLINE* This seminar, conducted as a musical performance, cooking demonstration, lecture, and discussion, offers a new way to consider American culture between the two World Wars. The instructors, a professional pianist and a culinary historian, will weave together musical and culinary examples of technology, popular and high culture, and foreign influences to speak more broadly about American culture. This seminar is co-taught with Elizabeth Newkirk.