Russell Potter

Russell Potter

Russell A. Potter is an American writer and college professor who has written on a variety of subjects, among them postmodern theory, Hip hop culture, popular music, and the history of British exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. His books include "Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism" (1995) and "Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture", 1818-1875 (2007). He teaches at Rhode Island College, where he serves as editor of the Arctic Book Review. He also worked as a consultant on, and appears in, the NOVA (TV series) documentary Arctic Passage (2006).

Potter was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960. He attended St. John's Lutheran School, Gilmour Academy, and the Friends School in Cleveland (later the School on Magnolia). In 1979, he founded the Black Snake record label, on which he released two albums of his own solo guitar compositions, as well as a single recording of a bluegrass version of DEVO's Mongoloid (song) by the Hotfoot Quartet. He later attended Goddard College and The Evergreen State College; he earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Brown University in 1991. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Books

*"Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-hop and the Politics of Postmodernism", SUNY Press 1995 (ISBN 0791426262)

*"Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875", University of Washington Press (ISBN 0295986808)

External links

* [http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/ - website of Russell A. Potter, Ph.D.]
* [http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/music_culture.html - Professa RAP's (aka Dr. Russel Potter)Music and Culture Page]


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