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Jeff Titon
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Professor of Music Emeritus, Brown University. Ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, folklore. New book: Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford U Press 2023). Old book: Toward a Sound Ecology (Indiana U Press 2020). Essays at https://brown.academia.edu/JeffToddTiton
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Jeff Titon @jefftoddtiton.bsky.social · Dec 22
My current project is a "sound ecology" based in an ecological rationality. Sound vibrations connect living creatures and establish an interdependent co-presence that signals a universal kinship, which forms the basis for a universal co-responsibility.
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Is it still there? #142 in a series. Grave markers, family cemetery, Pine Top, Kentucky, 1990. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography
February 1, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Remembering Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin’ Hopkins, two blues greats from Texas who passed away on this date. Mance in 1976 and Lightnin’ in 1982.

Mance Lipscomb & Lightnin' Hopkins A Little Boogie
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January 31, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Celebrating the birthday of blues singer-harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite (1944-), after a concert in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 31, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Celebrating the birthday of blues singer-pianist Roosevelt Sykes (1906-1983), pictured at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Celebrating the birthday of blues guitarist Eddie Taylor (1923-1985), pictured at the Wisconsin Delta Blues Festival, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, February, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Celebrating the birthday of blues singer Bobby "Blue" Bland (1930-2013), pictured here at left at the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 27, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Is it still there? #141 in a series. Cedar Grove Old Regular Baptist Church, Hallie, Letcher Co., Kentucky, 1990. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography
January 25, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Is it still there? #140 in a series. Dump truck, Stonington, Maine, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography
January 24, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Celebrating the birthday of blues singer and guitarist Sleepy John Estes (1899-1977), pictured here at left at the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August, 1969. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Today! We're looking forward to parterning with Central Arkansas Library Systems to host a big used book from 4pm-8:30pm. For the WWT pop-up, CALS has pulled a curated selection of adult literary fiction, classics, poetry, various art and philosophy books. Most books are priced between $3-$8.
We're looking forward to parterning with Central Arkansas Library Systems to host a big used book sale this Wednesday, January 21st from 4pm-8:30pm. For the WWT pop-up, CALS has pulled a curated selection of adult literary fiction, classics, poetry, various art and philosophy books. Most books are priced between $3-$8. In addition to providing community members with affordable books, the CALS Used Book Sale (CUBS) provides generous funding for library programs. Every time you shop, you support Summer@CALS, Six Bridges Book Festival, Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Count Up Math Tutoring, Rock It! Lab, library gardens, & grants to all CALS branches.
January 21, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Catching up with January blues birthdays, here is blues and gospel singer Rev. Robert Wilkins (Jan. 16, 1896-May 26, 1987), in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1970, waiting to open with Robert Pete Williams, before a concert by The Band. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 21, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Celebrating the birthday of blues guitarist Luther Tucker (1936-1993), pictured here at left at the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. L-R: Luther Tucker, Lightnin' Hopkins, a musician playing harmonica whom I don't know, and Sam Lay. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Catching up with some January blues birthdays, here (L-R) are Fred McDowell (Jan. 12, 1904-July 3, 1972), Roosevelt Sykes, and Little Brother Montgomery, at the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography #blues
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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I *love* these RL Burnside videos of him strumming on an old guitar through an old amp on his natural Mississippi habitat. They never get old to me.
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R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978)
YouTube video by Lomax Film Collection
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January 18, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Texas Alexander - The Risin' Sun

youtu.be/EJWVbd8Yrb0?...

1929 single for Okeh records
Alger Texas Alexander - The Risin' Sun
YouTube video by Me ?
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January 18, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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An elder of the Ponca Nation denounced humans’ “audacity to assign financial value, in their colonial thought process ways, to the sources of life & living beings - our relatives…To participate in the commodification & financialization of our relatives is an affront to the Natural Laws and...wrong.”
How Does Nature Contribute to the Economy? These Environmental Accountants Are Trying to Find Out - Inside Climate News
Experts are trying to determine nature’s financial contributions—and what could happen if they are lost.
insideclimatenews.org
January 13, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Blues great Slim Harpo (James Moore, d. 1970) was born January 11, 1924/Louisiana.

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Album “the best of Slim Harpo”
January 11, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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A question:

I am considering producing a new series of short educational videos on climate solutions. It seems that the best advice is to go with:

- short, 1-3 minute videos that do well in Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.

- medium-length, 3-7-minute videos that do well on YouTube.

What do you suggest?
January 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Today is National Arkansas Day so get out there and celebrate your national Arkansas!

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Arkansas map from Fletcher’s book “Arkansas” Arkansas JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Chapel Hill THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS 1947
January 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Big Boy’s Place.
West Helena, Arkansas.
January 11, 2012.
Small off-white cinder block building. Sign says “Big Boy’s Place”
January 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Is it still there? #139 in a series. Mount Mariah Baptist Church, established in 1867, near Marvell, Arkansas, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography
Church exterior with left front cupola and small steeple in Queen Anne style, double door at left front, 7 twelve over eight windows, wrapped in yellowish brown faux brick tarpaper. Mount Mariah Baptist Church, near Marvell, Arkansas, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. Yashica 124 TLR, Kodacolor film, 1/125 at f/11.
January 11, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Bacon Fat (the blues band) featured harmonica player George Smith, an Arkansas native.
Smith is pictured but does not appear on the linked song.
Rod Piazza is still around.
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Bacon Fat - Up The Line (1970)

Rod Piazza : Vocals, Harmonica
Buddy Reed : Guitar
Greg Shaefer : Guitar
JD Nicholson : Piano
Jerry Smith : Bass
Dick Innes : Drums

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January 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Is it still there? #138 in a series. Uncle Sam's Loan Office (Pawnbroker), Johnson City, Tennessee, April, 2016. Photo by Jeff Titon.
Brick building housing a pawn shop advertising diamonds, loans, stereos, TVs, and cameras. Five windows to apartments above. Downtown Johnson City, Tennessee, April, 2016. Photo by Jeff Titon. Canon Powershot G5, exposure data not recorded.
January 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Delta bluesman Eddie Cusic (d. 2015) was born January 4, 1926 at Leland, Mississippi.
Pictured here at the Crossroads Blues festival in Rosedale, Mississippi in 2011.

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Eddie Cusic on stage with acoustic guitar Eddie Cusic same stage Eddie Cusic Eddie Cusic sings
January 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Is it still there? #137 in a series. Tombstone with carvings and decorations, Pine Top, Kentucky, 1992. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentaryphotography
Gravestone with names and dates and a carving of a path toward heaven on which two people are walking, with a line from a hymn serving as a motto. Photo by Jeff Titon. Canon EF, Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens, Kodak Ektachrome film, 1/125 at f/5.6.
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM