EP 26 is out and our hosts have a conversation with our guests, Rob Weiner and Dr. Rob Peaslee! Roger and Chris talk this week about the comic universe (and the movie counterparts) as Rob & Rob expand on the history and cultural impact that led to the development of the comic universe and how it continues to affect the world today. VOICES FROM THE VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER is a podcast from at Texas Tech University. Join Roger and Chris as they range across the centuries and around the worlds of oral-tradition music and dance, with guests along the way! We would like to thank the TTU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation for funding Series 1 and the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts for funding Series 2 and 3. Please Like | Follow/Subscribe | Download | Share | Leave a Review!
Intro - 0:00
Part I, Meet Rob Weiner and Dr. Rob Peaslee - 01:05
Part II, What is Vernacular about a Superhero Universe - 13:51
Part III, A Need for Superheroes - 21:24
Part IV, A Need for Supervillains - 28:38
Part V, Assembling the Collection - 31:06
Part VI, Understanding Context w/in Pop Culture - 37:27
Part VII, Dark Attraction to Joker - 41:31
Part VIII, On Location - 50:44
Part IX, Future Projects - 54:45
Outro - 56:50
Rob Weiner BIO: Robert G. “Rob” Weiner is Popular Culture Librarian and liaison to the College of Visual and
Performing Arts. He also teaches for the Honors College. His research interests include sequential
art, popular music, and the history of film. He had authored/edited/co-edited over 15 books
including Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries, The Supervillain Reader (with Robert Moses
Peaslee), Marvel Graphic Novels, In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (with
Shelley Barba) Python Beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture (with Paul Reinsch and Lynn
Whitfield), Perspectives on the Grateful Dead, Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom (with
Carry Syma), Marvel Comics into Film (with Matt McEniry and Robert Moses Peaslee) and the Joker:
A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime (with Robert Moses Peaslee). Rob has also published
articles and book chapters in The International Journal of Comic Art, ImageText, Journal of Pan
African Studies, Texas Library Journal, Secret Origins of Comic Studies, The Routledge Companion to
Comics, The Vietnam War in Popular Culture, What's Eating You: Food and Horror on the Screen, and
Global Glam and Popular Music, Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation.
Most recently he published several pieces in The American Superhero.
Robert Peaslee BIO: Former Programming Chair for Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX); Coordinator, TTU International Film Series; several years' experience in sports and higher education marketing and communications; many years' experience in food and beverage industry; extensive experience with international travel and study abroad leadership.
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Full Playlist for EP 26
VVMC: Friends & Voices, a Collaborative Playlist
VVMC Book Club
Voices from the Vernacular Music Center