The Journalism and Media Communications Department is sponsoring a media panel on careers in sports broadcasting. The panel will feature Mitch Holthus, voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, Ryan Lefebvre, TV and radio announcer for the Kansas City Royals, and Todd Leabo, moderator, reporter, and producer for 810 Sports Radio. The event will be from 11 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in Craig Auditorium (GEB 233).
At 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 17, Marilyn Senter, professor of English, will present on American School Primers as part of the “Once Upon an Artifact” event at the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center. Here is a summary of Senter’s presentation from the program: “Textbooks of the 19th and 20th century were not phonic-friendly stories that populate our schools today. In this presentation, we will look briefly at some of the common primers which Kansas students might have used, and we will discuss the moral lessons embedded in the reading.”
In the New Yorker online, David Cantwell, adjunct professor of English, reviews Ken Burns’s 16-hour PBS documentary, Country Music. Cantwell’s thorough review, titled “Ken Burns’s Delightful ‘Country Music’ Gets the Big Things Mostly Right,” summarizes the some of the most significant artists featured in the documentary and highlights the fresh approaches that Burns has taken with the genre. According to Cantwell, a viewer will leave the documentary realizing that “country music is not, and has never been, static.”
Adjunct Professor Craig Workman‘s piece “Hallibray’s Riverbank Time” was accepted for a three-author novelette titled Treasure Chest. The book is set to be published in hard-copy by Scarlet Leaf Press out of Toronto, and will be released in late-fall.
David Cantwell, adjunct professor of English, recently wrote about Tanya Tucker for the New Yorker online. His essay, published on August 23, 2019, reviews her career and her latest album, While I’m Livin’. In his review, Cantwell argues that Tucker’s album may be the best of her career.
Also, on Thursday, August 29, in conjunction with the Mid-Continent Public Library and KCPT, Cantwell will discuss country music’s greatest songs as part of a sneak peek for Ken Burns’ newest documentary, Country Music. The event will start at 6:30 pm in the Midwest Genealogy Center Community Hall, 3440 S. Lee’s Summit Road, Independence, MO 64055.
