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Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma

Edited by Annegret Fauser (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) and Michael A. Figueroa Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range … Continued

Buffalo Bill, American Idol

Between 1883 and 1916, “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” — an extravaganza of riding, roping, shooting, Indian attacks, and stage coach robberies — gave audiences throughout the world a vivid image of the American West. In the process William F. Cody, as Buffalo Bill, established himself as one of the most famous Americans of his era. … Continued