Reebee Garofalo
Reebee Garofalo | |
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 Garofalo in 2012 | |
| Occupations | musician, educator, activist |
| Known for | HONK! |
| Website | reebee |
Reebee Garofalo is an American musician, activist and music scholar known for his work organizing street festivals such as the HONK! Fest and writing books about popular music.[1] Garofalo created a Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart which was reproduced in Edward Tufte's book Visual Explanations.
Garofalo earned an EdD from Harvard University in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice in 1974. He was a founding member of Massachusetts Rock Against Racism in 1979.[2][3] The group, responding to a request from students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School created a multimedia presentation called "Rock and Rap" using music and local DJs to highlight how music could bring people together.[4] The group aligned with other progressive organizations and the black community in the 1980s and worked with the Boston Public Schools create video programming that was "youth-oriented anti-racist programming" which was shown in hundreds of thousands of homes in the greater Boston area.[4]
Garofalo taught at the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston for thirty-three years and is currently professor emeritus.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Rock 'n Roll Is Here to Pay: The History & Politics of the Music Industry (1980, with Steve Chapple) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music & Mass Movements (1991) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Policing Pop (2002, with Martin Cloonan) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- HONK!: A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism (2019, with Erin T. Allen and Andrew Snyder) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Rockin Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A. (1996) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The emergence of rap Cubano: an historical perspective (2004, with Deborah Pacini Hernandez) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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