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Rutter: Constitution Day celebrates American heritage
Published 9/16/2009 in Podcasts
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Rutter: Constitution Day set for Thursday
By The Telegram
In this week's edition of Talk of the Town, Jon Rutter, a philosophy and communication instructor at Garden City Community College, gives a preview of GCCC's Constitution Day event.
Constitution Day, on Sept. 17, was established as a federal holiday in 2004 to memorialize the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, on Sept. 17 of 1787. The event is marked around the country.
Rutter provides some background on GCCC's speaker, Larry David Smith, who will address students and members of the public at 10 a.m. Thursday in the auditorium of GCCC's Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building. He also gives an idea of why he thinks it's important to recognize Constitution Day.
About Larry David Smith
Smith will draw on some of his previous published works in a presentation entitled Celebrating the Narrative Constitution. The presentation, he said, is built around interpreting the nation’s bedrock document for contemporary society.
His 1991 work with analyst Dan Nimmo, Cordial Concurrence: Orchestrating National Nominating Conventions in the Telepolitical Age, has been termed a landmark study in the processes of political nominating conventions. His other previous pieces range from articles to books about U.S. presidential politics, political advertising and campaign design, as well as additional writings about presidential nominating conventions.
Smith, who earned his doctorate in 1986 at Ohio State University, has also published four books that examine the narrative qualities of historically-significant songwriters, including Pete Townshend: The Minstrel’s Dilemma, in 1999; Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and American Song, in 2002; Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell and the Torch Song Tradition, in 2004; and Writing Dylan: Songs of a Lonesome Traveler, published in 2005.
Today, Smith is researching creative imperatives in the work of two prolific 20th Century artists, Pablo Picasso Dylan.
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