Word: semmel
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...Semmel, an instructor in History andLiterature, teaches a seminar course incontemporary popular culture. Semmel says hisseven-person course, History and Literature 91r:"British Culture Since WWI," looks at both highculture and popular culture...
Their ranks include linguist Bert R. Vaux, who sometimes illustrates his lectures with examples culled from the previous night's sitcoms, John R. Stilgoe, Orchard professor of the history of landscape development, who gives an entire lecture on Coca-Cola advertisements, and History and Literature instructor Stuart M. Semmel, whose class includes British pop music from the decades after World...
...Semmel's class spends time on the increasinglyimportant pop music of post-war Britain, from therelatively wholesome "Teddy Boy" rock stars of the1950s, to the mods and rockers of the 1960s andthe punks of the 1970s...
However, as Semmel suggests, "that may be morecommon off the syllabus than...