{"id":690,"date":"2018-04-26T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-arts-culture\/?p=690"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:02:18","slug":"americans-first-pop-idol-talk-by-allison-mccracken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-arts-culture\/americans-first-pop-idol-talk-by-allison-mccracken\/","title":{"rendered":"American&#8217;s First Pop Idol &#8211; Talk by Allison McCracken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-arts-culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/342\/2018\/04\/crooning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-arts-culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/342\/2018\/04\/crooning-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-arts-culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/342\/2018\/04\/crooning-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-arts-culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/342\/2018\/04\/crooning.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Media Studies Research Collaboratory will have one more event this academic year. Prof. Allison McCracken of DePaul University will be here on Friday, April 27, 3 &#8211; 4:30PM, CRT 118 to present her research on \u201cAmerica\u2019s First Pop Idol: The Rise and Fall of Rudy Vallee.\u201d This research is connected to McCracken\u2019s book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Real Men Don\u2019t Sing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies\u2019 Best First Book Award. Please join us for this engaging talk!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Studies Research Collaboratory will have one more event this academic year. 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