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About my friend, Jay Fliegelman.(In memoriam)
- Article from:
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Early American Literature
- Article date:
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Weber, Donald
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I wonder how many of Jay's friends know that as a teenager in the early '60s he was an aspiring journalist writing on popular culture? He profiled Sean Connery at the height of the James Bond craze; he wrote about would-be disk jockeys training at the BBC's London School of Broadcasting at the height of British Invasion. In "The ABC of Being a DJ"--an essay which, I wager, not even the most attentive "Jayfest" celebrants (the name given by the cohort of Jay's former graduate students who gathered in May 2007 to honor their mentor) know about--Jay was already analyzing the relation between voice and gesture, performance and meaning, audience and rhetorical style.
While on ...