Alum Naomi Bragin in Topics of Meta
Alum Naomi Bragin, Assisant Professor at the University of Washington Bothell, published "On the Front Porch: Deborah McCoy and Fresno Streetdance" for Topics of Meta, a project made possible by support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
From the article:
Hit it.
The street is Poplar, central Fresno. The year is 1976, ‘77, ‘78. The familiar popping of a broadcast receiver hits hot summer air, locking to 1220 on the AM dial. A desert wind gusts. Stops.
Sooooul Followers. De Arthur Woodrow Miller is calling to all who listen. They gather around the sound of KLIP, Fresno’s first black-owned station and one of the first in the nation. Between ads for local folks like Mell-o Ice Cream on Tulare, Graves Upholstery on Broadway and J&C House of Records on California, alongside in-house conversations with James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Ray Charles, Woody Miller keeps Fresno attuned to what and who is happening in the community—all blending together in a continuous mix of Gospel, R&B, Soul and Funk.
You can read the article here.