The Jandoli Institute’s next music and social justice forum will focus on punk music’s ability to question corporate behavior. The forum will take place on Zoom on Monday, March 15, starting at 7 p.m. “Punk music grew from working class… Read More ›
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Radio: Springsteen’s Brush with the Law
Music inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s brush with the law, featuring Bruce’s songs about criminals (‘Johnny 99’ & ‘Outlaw Pete’), crime (‘Murder Incorporated’), his $500 fine (‘The Price You Pay’) and more from Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee’s Feb. 26 radio… Read More ›
Comedy, public policy and ‘Mr. Mayor’
By Richard Lee Mr. Mayor, the NBC comedy that completed a short nine-episode season last week, captured many of the day-to-day activities that go into the job of running a city. Mayor Neil Bremer (played by Ted Danson) dealt with… Read More ›
Video: How can music fans promote social justice?
In a Feb. 15 forum, the Jandoli Institute explored the role that musicians’ fans can play in promoting social justice. Dr. Alex Gillham, an assistant professor of philosophy at St. Bonaventure University, led the program, which was titled “Prevention, Proliferation,… Read More ›
Radio: How the Pandemic Has Changed Life as We Knew It
Songs about what we’ve missed since the arrival of the pandemic just about a year ago: “We’re Having a Party,” “On Broadway,” “Smiling Faces” and more from Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee’s Feb. 19 radio show on WSBU-FM (88.3)…. Read More ›
Presidents Day: More Than an Opportunity to Sell Cars, Clothing and Electronics
By Michael P. Riccards When I was a boy, we had off Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday, and the media each year featured stories on each of these great men. Now we have combined the two days into Presidents Day… Read More ›
Is Equal Voting for All a Given?
By Adam Odolil Voting is an integral part of our democracy, and yet it appears to me that simply being a citizen of the United States is not a sufficient condition for being able to vote. One key component of… Read More ›
The Pandemic Behind the COVID Pandemic
By Abby Borkowski Imagine this: a world where the government guidelines and media focus on sharing how to fix the root problem by incorporating healthy lifestyle behaviors, (e.g. movement, healthy eating, sleep, managing stress, and self-care) to help change the… Read More ›
Radio: Rock Hall Nominees
Music from the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees from Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee’s Feb. 12 radio show on WSBU-FM (88.3). Lee’s show streams live on Fridays at noon at on the WSBU livestream site.. More… Read More ›
‘Tis folly to say the people must have news’ – Sherman, the press and our own culpability
By Chris Mackowski In a Feb. 18, 1863, letter to his brother, Sen. John Sherman of Ohio, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman lamented what he saw as a deterioration of American ideals. In order to defeat the Confederacy, he feared… Read More ›
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