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STEM of History
STEM of Historymmullins2023-01-18T23:29:18-05:00
The STEM of History (SOH) is a podcast produced by the American Museum of Science and Energy Foundation (AMSEF) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee with funding support from Humanities Tennessee. This series examines the intersection of science with history. It focuses on tracing how scientific inquiry is interpreted in the historical record, and in turn, the impact of historical analysis to informing scientific inquiry.
Working on behalf of AMSEF, Alan Lowe is the Executive Director of both the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) and the K-25 History Center. Previously, he was an archivist at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California; Director of Operations at the Office of Presidential Libraries in Washington, D.C.; acting
Director of the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Director in Hyde Park, New York; founding Executive Director of the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy in Knoxville, Tennessee; the founding Director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas; and the Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois.
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Chandrakant Patel
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Chandrakant PatelEngineering
Chandrakant Patel has served as a Chief Engineer and a Senior Fellow at Hewlett Packard (HP). An Engineer by profession, he is widely regarded as an authority in his work as he has received 148 patents and published at least 150 technical papers. Previously, he earned an AS in Engineering from City College of San Francisco in 1981, a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from San Jose State University in 1988. In his role at HP, Patel has led Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in delivering innovations in chips, systems, data centers, storage and networking. In addition, Patel enjoys teaching and has served as an adjust faculty member at Chabot College and he taught a graduate level course in thermal management at the University of California Berkley Extension and Santa Clara University.
In this episode, Mr. Lowe and Mr. Patel began by talking about the person most inspirational in Patel's life – his father. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he served as a civil structural engineer and oversaw the building of a suspension bridge over the Mississippi River that was built in the 1950s and is still utilized today. And as Patel points out here in discussing his father's achievement, "We don't even think about it. And yet, if we didn't have the bridge or we didn't have the water system, we would seriously miss it." Engineering in the service of society is how Mr. Patel views his chosen profession. Mr. Patel goes on to discuss his work at the National Academy of Engineering and their mission of "taking on grand challenges." He has certainly done that in engaging in engineering research endeavors that benefit and inform our lives and those of generations to come. Mr. Patel again shows the close connection of engineering, history and public policy. Understanding that connection, and growing it, benefits the engineer, the policy maker, and the historian.
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Marilyn Johnson
Marilyn JohnsonArchaeology
Marilyn Johnson is a prolific writer who examines sometimes overlooked professions and those who toil in relative obscurity at fascinating jobs. Her books include The Deadbeat (about obituary writers), This Book is Overdue (focusing on librarians), and Lives in Ruins. In addition, she has worked as an editor for Esquire magazine and served as a staff writer for Life Magazine.
In this episode, Mr. Lowe interviews Ms. Johnson about her 2015 book – Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble. In this fascinating book, Johnson describes her work with archaeologists around the nation and around the world. She learned not just about the tools and practices of their craft, but about their motivations and their passion for learning and preserving our history. Archaeology is an excellent example of the close connection between the humanities and specifically the study of history with science. The archaeologists she got to know in Lives in Ruins advanced their knowledge of recent history by applying the scientific method and utilizing a variety of tools. Archaeologists must have a wide range of scientific knowledge to understand things like the composition of soils, the decomposition of materials over time, the effects of fire and flood on structures, etc. The result of their work, of applying that knowledge and those processes, provides a picture of the past.
Norman (Norm) Ralph Augustine
Engineering, Competitiveness and Leadership
Norman (Norm) Ralph AugustineEngineering, Competitiveness and Leadership
Norman (Norm) Ralph Augustine has an illustrious professional career far too extensive to detail in full here. A few examples of his achievements and positions he has held include attending Princeton University where he graduated with a BSE in Aeronautical Engineering, magna cum laude. Some of his positions after that include CEO of Martin Marietta, CEO and Chairman of Lockheed Martin, Chairman of the American Red Cross, the Defense Science Board, the National Academy of Engineering, the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee, and the Aerospace Industries Association. Augustine served as president of the Boy Scouts of America and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also served as Undersecretary and then Acting Secretary of the United States Army. And his achievements continue, please see the links for more.
In this episode, Mr. Lowe interviews Mr. Augustine. They discuss a variety of fascinating roles that Mr. Augustine has served in over the course of his career. Having grown up in Colorado and appreciating the great outdoors, he initially wanted to steer his career path toward a position that would allow him to immerse himself in nature – such as being a forest ranger. He goes on to explain that he was instead inspired by a teacher to attend college and it was at Princeton that he was advised to consider geological engineering as it is a field of science most like forestry. This advice placed Mr. Augustine in the discipline of engineering. He would go on to change his major to aeronautical engineering as he was advised by a peer "that is where the future was." From here, Mr. Augustine goes on to share life lessons from the many influential positions he has worked in over the course of his career. The range of topics they discuss include American competitiveness, the challenge of putting people on the moon, international travel, the importance of individual talent and the drive to achieve. Mr. Augustine provides a stellar example of a leader in science and engineering who made history and learned from it. He provides a case for the STEM of History that shows how a knowledge of history can inform the actions of scientists and engineers. Undertaking work in the sciences in the context of historical knowledge gives better perspective and provides access to lessons learned in the past. Those in turn provide leaders like Mr. Augustine not only context for their work in science and engineering, but practical insights for applying the sciences to current public policy and business issues.
Dr. Marianne Wanamaker
STEM of History Podcast
Economics & Public Policy
Dr. Marianne WanamakerEconomics & Public Policy
Dr. Marianne Wanamaker is Associate Professor of economics in the Department of Economics, Haslam College of Business and Executive Director of the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy on the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Professor Wanamaker earned her BA from Vanderbilt University and her MA and PhD in Economics from Northwestern University. Dr. Wanamaker's research is published extensively in peer-reviewed academic journals, and she speaks regularly on the topics of labor economics, workforce development, education, American economic history, and demography. In her role of Executive Director of the Baker Center, she supports the legacy of Tennessee Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. in fostering research, education and policy engagement.
In this episode, Mr. Lowe interviews Dr. Marianne Wanamaker regarding her research in the field of economics. She begins by explaining how economics as an academic discipline falls under the umbrella of the social sciences. Dr. Wanamaker goes on to share how she begins and follows through on a research topic with a focus on economic history. The Professor utilizes primary sources like census records, oral histories as well as secondary sources of information written by academic historians. In addition, she discusses how mathematical models and statistics and other new tools in the study of economic history are being utilized to assist researchers in using data to answer questions. Finally, Dr. Wanamaker discusses and provides some insight into an exciting new initiative called The Institute of American Civics that is launching at the Baker Center. The use of data in historical research, and the understanding of historical context when reviewing data, are important examples of the close connections between the social sciences and the discipline of history.
Dr. Guru Madhavan
The Science of Engineering
Dr. Guru MadhavanThe Science of Engineering
Dr. Guru Madhavan is an internationally respected biomedical systems engineer and author. He is currently the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Madhavan earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering as well as an M.B.A. from the State university of New York. His alma mater would later award him the Edward Weisband Distinguished Alumni Award for Public Service or Contribution to Public Affairs. In addition, he has received an extensive array of recognitions and awards in his profession – including the National Academies' Innovator Award, National Academy of Medicine's Cecil Medal (the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation's highest honor), the Laufman-Greatbatch Award (in recognition of significant contributions to health systems and technology), the AAMI Becton Dickinson Award for Professional Achievement, and the Washington Academy of Sciences' Leadership Award in engineering. In recognition of his research and writing, Dr. Madhavan has received the IEEE-USA Award (for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession), and the IEEE-USA George F. McClure Citation of Honor and the Alfred N. Goldsmith Award (for Outstanding Achievment in Engineering Communication). His publications include the coedited volume Engineering and Philosophy, the coauthored book Making Better Choices: Design, Decisions, and Democracy, and the widely translated nonfiction Applied Minds: How Engineers Think. Dr. Madhavan is an elected fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.
In this episode, Mr. Lowe interviews Dr. Madhavan starting with his family origins from Southern India. Growing up in a very competitive academic culture, Dr. Madhavan jokes his entry into the profession of engineering was almost like an arranged marriage. On a more serious note, he describes how he embraced the discipline of engineering and then came to appreciate the "scientific aspects and the mathematical constructs and even the structural principles behind it." Dr. Madhavan goes on to explain the importance that the National Academies have served in the pursuit of objective thinking since President Abraham Lincoln signed it into existence in 1863. Mr. Lowe and Dr. Madhavan discuss how to make engineering more broadly relatable for those outside the discipline. Dr. Madhavan stresses the inherent but often overlooked connection of engineering, history, and our day-to-day lives. Better understanding the evolution of engineering, and its uses, helps us better understand the world around us and make more informed personal and societal decisions.
Dr. Daniel Vivian
Dr. Daniel VivianA discussion about historic preservation
Dr. Daniel Vivian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historic Preservation with a joint appointment in the department of History at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He holds an earned Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University (JHU); a Master's of Arts (M.A.) degree in history from JHU; and a M.A. in Public History from the University of South Carolina. Professor Vivian has devoted his professional career to historic preservation and public history. He is a respected authority and author of an extensive body of publications on this fascinating topic and has applied his expertise in many projects designed to preserve historic structures.
In this episode, Dr. Vivian and Mr. Lowe talk about the tangible elements of history, the artifacts and documents left behind that inform the historical record and our understanding of it. And notably, this field involves the study and preservation of historic sites such as homes, monuments, memorials, fields of battle, and national parks as well as other significant places. The preservation of cultural and historic landscapes, structures and artifacts provide both intrinsic and informational value. They inform the current generation and help us find meaning and perspective. That interpretation evolves from one generation to the next. Ultimately, they conclude the episode by linking the application of scientific advances to preserving and maintaining the relics of the past. The preservation of historic materials and structures is a tangible connection between science and the humanities. In addition, the development and use of the principles and tools of historic preservation are important stories to add to our histories, showing this and future generations the reason for that vital work, and the methods used to accomplish it.
Dr. Ernest Freeberg
The Age of Edison
Dr. Ernest FreebergDistinguished university professor and author
Dr. Ernest Freeberg earned his Ph.D. in History from Emory University in 1992 and a BA in English from Middlebury College in 1980. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Beaman Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor Freeberg has been widely published and has received multiple awards, grants, and fellowships in history and writing. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on American social and cultural history, American religion, antebellum reform and abolitionism, historical methods, as well as the history of the First Amendment and the impact of war on democracy.
In this episode, Mr. Lowe interviews Professor Freeberg about his 2013 book, The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America, a technological invention that many take for granted today. In the 1880s, driven by a demand for replacing the limitations of gas lighting, the illumination of America began. As Professor Freeberg notes, The Wizard of Menlo Park, as some would come to describe Edison, built upon the work of others before him and perfected the science of electric light to a degree that made it accessible and useable for communities, factories and residential homes. His work changed how people lived. And the electrification of America is the story of modern America. Understanding some of the science behind the production of electric light, and the enormous engineering accomplishment of electrifying a nation, helps us better understand a fundamental part of our history and of our lives today.
The Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam KeanAuthor
Sam Kean currently lives in Washington, D.C. He has a Master's degree in Library Science; however, he is best known for his prolific writing and speaking. Mr. Kean is a popular guest speaker at universities, museums, libraries, science conferences, literary festivals and many other events as he has delivered talks in three dozen states and ten different countries. He has the unique gift of explaining complex scientific theories and discoveries to those outside of the discipline in relatable and familiar terms. Mr. Kean has his own podcast entitled: "The Disappearing Spoon: A science history podcast with Sam Kean."
In this episode, Mr. Lowe interviews Mr. Kean about his 2010 book, The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. The periodic table and its 118 known elements can read like a foreign language to those without a background in science. Mr. Kean begins by deciphering the complex origins of the table in the 1860s and early 1870s and perfected by Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev. He then goes on to discuss the relationship of two elements – Germanium [Ge] and Silicon [Si] and their role in early and modern communications technology. The discussion then turns to the 20th Century and the role of the chemical element Molybdenum [Mo] in strengthening steel in German guns during WWI; and of course, Uranium [U] and Plutonium [Pu] in developing the first atomic bombs during WWII. Mr. Lowe and Mr. Kean go on to discuss additional fascinating elements and their role in shaping human history. Since its development and evolution over the past 150 years, the Periodic Table of the Elements continues to be one of the most important achievements to science. This conversation helps illustrate the usefulness of understanding the basic science of the Periodic Table, and characteristics of its elements, when researching and studying history.
Tore Olsson
Agriculture in Historical Perspective
Dr. Tore OlssonEducator and Author
Dr. Tore Olsson earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in History from the University of Georgia, Athens, and a B.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He currently serves as Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor Olsson has been widely published and has received multiple awards, grants, and fellowships in history and writing. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses with an emphasis on 20th Century American popular and cultural history.
In this episode, Mr. Lowe and Professor Olsson talk about how human history was vastly transformed as people moved from dispersed groups of nomadic hunter-gathers to societies based on agriculture. Over the course of thousands of years, humanity organized and settled into cities and developed many of the societal structures we are familiar with today as they became dependent on a grain-based diet fueled by organized farming. As the Professor notes in the interview, this transformation initiated biological changes in human anatomy as "hunters and gatherers tended to be much healthier" as well as physically taller in stature. As humanity shifted from a nomadic hunter-gatherer life it also altered gender roles, social stratification as people were doing different jobs, and systems of class and inequality. Their discussion moves into the 20th Century as they discuss the continuing impacts of the agrarian era – including land reform, food scarcity and the political and economic impacts behind the science of industrial farming. This fascinating interview demonstrates the utility of understanding the science of agriculture when studying the development and advance of civilization, when researching and writing about our history.
Dr. Stephanie Drumheller-Horton
Dr. Stephanie Drumheller-HortonLecturer and Assistant Professor of Paleontology
Dr. Stephanie Drumheller-Horton is a lecturer and assistant professor of Paleontology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (UTK). Dr. Drumheller-Horton majored in Geology and Biology at UTK, graduating in 2005. She earned her Ph.D. at The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, in 2012. Please see links below for a brief bibliography of some of her publications and additional information related to this podcast.
In this episode, Dr. Drumheller-Horton discusses her work as a vertebrate paleontologist with a specialization in crocodilians. She studies the fossil remains of alligators, crocodiles, and other animals from the deep past. Utilizing traditional and some of the most advanced scientific tools and procedures available today, examination of these ancient creatures gives us a better understanding of the environment they inhabited, their evolutionary track, and the changes our planet has undergone.
The Professor also notes how this field is very much a collaborative process among scientists and academics working with expertise in sub-fields of the discipline. Their individual research adds to and informs the findings of their colleagues. Research endeavors take them to a variety of field locations, as well as to museums and collections of fossil discoveries preserved in archives across the world.
This conversation with Dr. Drumheller-Horton gives an excellent example of the use of the tools of science to tell the history of our planet, and it illustrates how a knowledge of the deep past helps us understand our world today.
Steve Olson
Mapping Human History, Genes, Race, and our Common Origins
Steve OlsonFreelance Writer
Steve Olson is a freelance writer and has authored a diverse range of science articles and books. Since 1979, he has served also as a consultant writer for the National Academy of Sciences, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and others. He currently resides in Washington State.
In this episode Mr. Lowe and Mr. Olson focus their discussion on Olson's book, Mapping Human History, Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins. Their conversation ranges broadly over the intersection of genetics and the story of human history. Olson's work shows how historians can benefit from marshalling the tools of genetics, and how in turn geneticists can at times better analyze their findings with a sound knowledge of history. We begin to understand how the complexity of human history and human biology can literally be mapped to common origins.
The reason behind the STEM of History:
The STEM of History is an online resource that reviews how advances in scientific understanding and technology have (a) enabled us to better research and understand history, (b) provided improved access to historical resources, and/or (c) afforded new or improve provided means to preserve historical resources.
Excellent studies have been made of the history of science, but there is no good compilation showing the uses of science to advance historical understanding. Our belief is that researchers and historians will benefit from gaining a comprehensive view of useful scientific tools and processes. Additionally, teachers will use this resource to help students better understand the elements of undertaking rigorous historical research. At the same time, this resource will give the general public a broader and deeper understanding of history and various disciplines of science. Finally, this resource will help bring together the fields of science and the humanities, advancing interdisciplinary connections and promoting good scholarship. The AMSE Foundation is grateful for the support of Humanities Tennessee for this opportunity to further academic excellence.
Kit Chapman
Kit Chapman's discussion with us focused on his book, Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table, all about the transuranic elements. As Kit showed us, politics plays a role in the creation and naming of new elements. Knowing the science behind the Periodic Table and the creation of new elements informs a study in particular of Cold War politics and history.
Joyce Chaplin
Joyce Chaplin also addressed a historical figure in her book, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius. This terrific book shows that understanding one of our most important Founders in the United States means grasping not only his role in the world of science, but the actual science he advanced and that made him a respected international figure.
Randy Cerveny
Randy Cerveny discussed with us his books about weather and climatology, Freaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder: The World's Strangest True Weather Stories and Weather's Greatest Mysteries Solved! In our discussion, it became clear that weather has often made or affected our history, and understanding its basic workings makes that history more comprehensible.
We discussed with Susan Wise Bauer her book, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory. In this very engaging book Susan outlines the most influential works about science from Hippocrates to today. She shows that the unfolding of history and the development of science have gone hand in hand. By reading the primary sources – for example, by going referencing the writings of Aristotle, or by reading Darwin – we gain a better understanding of their scientific ideas, and, in so doing, of the importance of their place in our history.
Kai Bird, Cameron Reed, and Richard Rhodes…
…talked with us about their books related to the Manhattan Project. Blending lessons in atomic physics with the story of the physicists, engineers and others who made the Bomb possible, Kai, Cameron and Richard created award-winning books detailing the Manhattan Project and its impact on our world. (Books discussed included Kai Bird's American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Cameron Reed's Manhattan Project: The Story of the Century; and Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb.)
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester is an award-winning science writer, and we were fortunate to speak with him on AMSEcast about several of his books. Relating to the STEM of History, though Simon blends a knowledge of science with history in all his books, we would especially direct you to our conversation with him about his books The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, and The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology.
Jon Gertner and Michael Hiltzik
Jon Gertner and Michael Hiltzik spoke with us on their episodes about the role of creativity in science and the massive effects that has had on our recent history. With Jon, we had a fascinating conversation about his book The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. Among his other books, in our conversation with Michael we discussed his work Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age. Illustrating the advances in science and engineering made by both Xerox and Bell Labs, Jon and Michael not only help chart the history of the 20th century but show the fundamentals of the science behind that history. How cell phones work, why transistors were revolutionary, and how communications satellites have changed our world are just some of the topics discussed in both historical and scientific narratives.
Jay Hakes
Our conversation with Jay Hakes centered on his book, Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter and Hard Choices in the 1970's. Taking a close look at those three pivotal administrations, Jay charts the fascinating development of energy policy in the United States and the science behind policy decisions. Understanding the basics of the science brings those policies into a clearer view.
Ryan North joined us on AMSEcast to talk about his book, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler. Presented in a fun, very accessible way, Ryan takes the reader through the basics of rebuilding a civilization. In so doing, he sneaks in a great deal of science while addressing societal needs like creating energy, or growing crops. This book is an excellent primer on what makes our civilization tick and the science and engineering behind it, and a wonderful conversation starter about how in our history these advances were made. Again, knowing the basic science lets Ryan recreate civilization. For us, that knowledge helps us understand the world around us, and what came before us, better.
David Hanson
Our conversation with David Hanson, Founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, was utterly fascinating. David is at the forefront of his field, a field that is making history as we speak. In the future, as we write histories of the growing impact of robotics and artificial intelligence on our societies, and as we struggle with the issues raised by David like the rights of robots, knowing how androids work, the science and engineering that go into creating and sustaining them, will be vitally important.
Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer spoke with us on AMSEcast about his books Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive and A Planet of Viruses. Both are terrific books, but we would direct you especially to the conversation about A Planet of Viruses in the context of the STEM of History. As is apparent from our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, understanding the nature of viruses is critical to telling our history accurately and completely.
The AMSE Foundation would like to acknowledge the support of Humanities Tennessee and the National Endowment for the Humanities for their participation in making this material available to the public.

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Newsletter 11/2021: #WHS2021 Wrap-Up
At the World Health Summit 2021, global health experts from around the world gathered in Berlin and online: 6,000 participants and 377 speakers from 120 countries discussed the most pressing global health issues of our times in 67 sessions. There have never before been so many speakers and so many sessions. With Dr. Tedros, the Director-General of the WHO, and Jens Spahn, the German Minister of Health, speaking at the opening, and video participation by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the opening evidenced the relevance of global health and the role of the World Health Summit.
The main theme, of course, was COVID-19, which affects all angles of life and was addressed from all possible perspectives. Many key findings and outcomes were presented and discussed but the main result, the central demand, is clear and obvious:
The number one priority remains to vaccinate the world.
The M8 Alliance, our academic backbone, took it one step further:
"We need a new multilateralism and a new global social contract." This is the essence of the M8 Alliance Declaration, the final statement of the World Health Summit and translates to vaccine equity, strengthening the global health architecture, and supporting all countries to invest in primary health care.
The mission and vision of the World Health Summit may never have been more relevant: To improve health worldwide via collaboration and open dialogue by bringing together stakeholders from all different sectors: science, politics, industry and civil society. We believe that this is essential to tackle the multiple challenges of global health. The tremendous interest in the discussions seems to prove us right: Session recordings available on our YouTube channel have been watched by more than 78,000 people so far. And via the WHO's Twitter channel, all five sessions with Dr. Tedros were streamed live to more than 220,000 viewers worldwide. The enormous interest was also reflected in the numerous media reports around the world from The Washington Post, to all major German newspapers, to prime time news, and to the Fiji Times.
After the game is before the game as we all know, preparations are on the way for next year's World Health Summit – a very special one: The World Health Summit 2022 will be co-hosted by WHO: "…to engage an even broader group of actors, committed to multilateral action for global health", as Dr. Tedros put it.
And finally yet importantly, let me cordially welcome our new World Health Summit 2022 International Presidents: Eugenio Gaudio and Luciano Saso from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. They will host the Regional Meeting 2022 in Rome next June. My sincere thank-you goes to 2021 International President Charles Ibingira from Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda for all his contributions. Charles and his team hosted a wonderful, utterly important and successful Regional Meeting 2021 in Kampala.
My dear friends, let's work together and try to make a real difference for global health.
Axel R. Pries
World Health Summit
A LOOK BACK: WORLD HEALTH SUMMIT 2021
#WHS2021 in Numbers
- 6,000 participants in Berlin and online
- 1,100 participants on-site
- 377 speakers
- 120 countries
- 67 sessions
- countless conversations
- 70 hours broadcasting time
- 78,000 views of all session recordings on YouTube (as of Nov. 25)
- 220,000 views additionally of all sessions streamed by WHO (as of Nov. 25)
- 3,000 live participants at the opening ceremony
- 1,000 reports in international media
- 1,900 mentions of @WorldHealthSmt on Twitter in October
- 800 new followers of @WorldHealthSmt on Twitter in October
- 2,000 photos taken
- 1,200 program books printed
- 53% male / 47% female speakers
- 1 final declaration
"We need a new multilateralism and a new social contract": M8 Alliance Declaration 2021
Learnings from COVID-19, clear statements on pandemic preparedness and response, vaccine equity and new international strategies are the core themes of this year's World Health Summit final declaration, the M8 Alliance Declaration.
The M8 Alliance, the academic backbone of the World Health Summit, identified the need for "a new multilateralism and a new social contract."
"Political leaders must confront the underlying geopolitical tensions, social vulnerabilities and structural inequalities in their societies and between countries - it is the most vulnerable that are paying the price with their health and lives in this pandemic. The World Health Summit stresses the fact that health is a human right and health security will only be achieved together with social and human security. Mechanisms driving and perpetuating inequity must be addressed."
Read the full M8 Alliance Declaration 2021
The World Health Summit 2021 was featured in hundreds of media outlets around the world. See TV reports, listen to radio features, and read articles here
Read more on media attention, media quotes, press releases, social media and website reach, ads, and our media partners in this year's media report
ARD Tagesschau
(prime time edition)
"The world's top health professionals come together (...)"
"Now in Berlin many of the world's top scientists, medics, and ministers are working through what they see as the next big challenges."
"This 2021 edition (…) will bring together the elite of the scientific, political, civil society and business world from 100 countries."
700,000 impressions, 56,000 profile visits, and more than 4,000 likes and mentions - these are the Twitter data for @WorldHealthSmt in October, the month of #WHS2021. The whole program, all sessions, the main topics, and various speakers have been featured on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram e.g. with campaigns like "Meet #WHS2021 Speakers" or "#WHS2021 Takeaway".
Opening Speeches
Some of the many great speeches from the World Health Summit 2021 opening ceremony are available on our website. Additionally, you can watch the entire opening session as a recording.
The recordings of all 67 #WHS2021 sessions are available on our YouTube channel
Additionally, all sessions with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus were livestreamed on WHO's Twitter channel, see more
For a look behind the scenes and #WHS2021 impressions, visit our gallery
Check out the graphic recordings highlighting the key messages from various #WHS2021 sessions
Speaker Quotes
See various speaker quotes on our website and as "#WHS2021 Takeaway" on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram
"Cross-border health threats need cross-border responses."
President, European Commission
"Let us join together at the World Health Summit to embark into a future in which we are all sufficiently prepared and coordinated in order to respond to outbreaks as a united global community."
Minister of Health, Germany
"At this year's World Health Summit, let's move from alarm to action. And let's deliver the stronger health systems that every person deserves."
Secretary General, United Nations
The World Health Summit brings together leaders from science, politics, the private sector, and civil society to set the agenda for a healthier future. Thank you to all World Health Summit 2021 partners for their contributions!
M8 ALLIANCE NEWS
The Baton goes from Uganda to Italy
Change of the World Health Summit Internatonal Presidency: On stage at the World Health Summit, the baton was passed on from Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda to Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, hosts of the Regional Meeting 2022.
Meet the Next Regional Meeting Hosts
Sapienza University of Rome, the Italian member of the M8 Alliance, will be hosting the next Regional Meeting 2022, June 15-17. Established in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, Sapienza is one of the oldest universities in the world and with about 115,000 students, it is also one of the largest in Europe.
The World Health Summit International Presidency 2022 will be shared between Eugenio Gaudio and Luciano Saso:
Eugenio Gaudio is a Professor of Human Anatomy and served as the rector of Sapienza until 2020. He is the author of over 500 scientific publications and holds two international patents. He is Commendatore dell'Ordine of the Italian Republic, honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and counselor for the Ministry of University and Research for health education.
Luciano Saso is a Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine at Sapienza. He coordinated several research projects in the field of pharmacology and has been referee for many national and international funding agencies and international scientific journals in the last 25 years. He is vice-rector for the European University Networks, member of the Council for Doctoral Education at Sapienza as well as president of the Steering Committee of the UNICA network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe.
M8 Alliance Webinar Series on Migrant and Refugee Health
Register for the webinar on "How climate change affects the health of migrants and refugees" on November 30, 15:00-17:00 CET.
Get all information on registration, speakers and program here
Migrant and Refugee Health has been a focus topic of the M8 Alliance since 2016 with regular expert meetings and sessions at the World Health Summit.
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Urinary tract infection among children and adolescents of Garhwal Region of Uttarakhand, India
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Urinary tract comprises of kidney, ureter, urethra and genital organ and under normal circumstances these organs are sterile. Inflammation of these organ and parts may indicate the possibility of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). It may be due to the colonization of wide range of bacteria either from normal microflora that is Escherichia coli or from other Gram negative or Gram positive bacteria. The present study was carried out to determine the prevalence of urinary tract infection in children and adolescents of hilly areas of Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. The sample collection was done from April 2013 to December 2013 from the Out Patient Department (OPD) and In Patient Department (IPD) of Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Base Hospital, Srinagar Garhwal at an average height of 560 m (1837 ft) above sea level at foothills of Himalayas. Clean voided mid-stream urine samples were collected in sterile universal containers from 76 children of age group 0 to 10 years and 129 adolescents of age group 11 to 20 years. Bacterial counts greater than or equal to 1x105 CFU/mL in culture plates were taken as positive, which was an indication of UTI as introduced by Kass. Colony morphological characteristics were used for identification of bacterial isolation followed by Gram's staining and biochemical tests. Our study showed a high prevalence of E. coli as the most dominant bacteria causing UTI in children and adolescents of hilly Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.
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When the draw for the quarter finals for the Champions' League was made, the most illustrious names in club football emerged from the hat: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Leicester City. Whilst the current Premier League champions are experiencing a disappointing domestic season, they are proving to be the brightest British star still burning in European football's elite tournament.
After dispatching Sevilla in the previous round in a dramatic tie of (Craig) Shakespearean proportions, Leicester, and their travelling hordes of supporters, will descend upon the capital of Spain to take on Atlético Madrid on 12 April.
The sunny plazas of Madrid have a lot to offer travelling fans. Beer is cheap and spirits are high. Yet, therein lies temptation. Whilst away, overzealous fans can fall foul of foreign laws and have their trip ruined.
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During the day, take care to watch out for pickpockets, and not to over-drink. In certain areas of Spain, drinking on the streets is illegal and you can be arrested for doing so. If you do get asked for identification by the police, offer it up. They legally have the power to take you into the police station until they can verify your identity. What's more, it's worth bearing in mind that ignoring or disobeying a police officer is a criminal offence, and that even possessing a small quantity of drugs can lead to arrest and detention. British charity Prisoners Abroad helped 145 British citizens who were imprisoned in Spain last year, and 57% were held on drugs charges.
When collecting your tickets in the centre of town, take particular care with your belongings as it has been known for pickpockets to operate in this area.
Fans have various options for getting to the stadium. The Estadio Vicente Calderón, where Atletico play, is well located with lots of public transport links. It can be reached by underground on line 5 (the light green one). Fans should get off at Puerta de Toledo underground stop and walk down Paseo de los Pontones to the stadium. Bus number 17 runs from Plaza Mayor in the centre of Madrid and fans should get off at the bus stop in Paseo de los Pontones.
Fans also have the option to walk to the stadium en masse with police protection. Those who prefer this option should meet at Plaza Mayor (the main square) at 18.30. The walk will take approximately half an hour.
Arriving at the stadium early is a necessity. Spanish stadiums are known for bottlenecks around the turnstiles. Gates open between two hours and an hour and a half before kick-off, so there is plenty of time to avoid the crowds. However, if you do get caught in the crush, be sure to keep your ticket secure and listen to instructions from stewards. Leicester City stewards will be present at some checkpoints to assist fans. Entry to the stadium for Leicester fans will be through gates 7, 9 and 10.
It is also worth taking a note of the address of the British consulate in Madrid, who will be able to offer advice in case of arrest (but can't just get you out of jail) or other problems. If you are detained, they will be able to put you in touch with Prisoners Abroad who can offer further advice and support. However, due to Easter holidays, the consulate will be closed until the Tuesday after the game, the 18th April.
One final, but easy, precaution to take is to buy travel insurance, even if you're there for one night, and bring your EHIC card. This can prevent surprisingly huge bills. The FCO calculates that the cost of a broken hip, along with flights, can be up to £15,000 in a Spanish hospital!
Staying safe is simple. With a few precautionary measures, and a little common sense, there is no reason to worry. Enjoy the sun, enjoy the football, and enjoy Vardy's last minute winner. You wouldn't want an avoidable problem to spoil that!
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Welcome!! Check your TSTRANSCO Assistant Engineer Result & Cutoff Marks from this website by scrolling down the page. As per latest news, Telangana State Transmission Corporation, Vidyut Soudha is almost ready to declare the results of AE (Electrical, Civil & Telecom) Written Examination held on 11th March 2018. It is a Good news for all those candidates who had attempted the written test and right now impatiently searching on the internet for their TS Transco result release date. A direct link to download TSTRANSCO AE Result 2018 PDF file is available at the bottom of this article so that applicants can check out their selection status just by a single click. In the TS Transco AE Exam Merit List 2018, those who will get highest marks in the written examination their names, hall ticket numbers, category and other details will display. Candidates are advised to go through the following passages and find out complete information about Telangana TRANSCO Assistant Engineer Exam Results Cut off List & much more.
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On 28 Dec 2017, Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited had issued an official notification to fill up total 330 Assistant Engineer Vacancies in Civil, Electrical & Telecom Department. Those jobless people who were looking for TS Govt Jobs after completing bachelor degree have responded to this recruitment advertise. Those who registered application forms have downloaded admit card 07 days before conductance date from provided sources and attended the examination with full confidence. Telangana TRANSCO has conducted the Objective type Written Examination on 11/03/2018 (Sunday) for recruitment of AE/Electrical, AE/Civil & AE/Telecom. As per schedule, the written test successfully held on a single day at different centers located in the GHMC area. More than 1,000 candidates from all over the TS state participated in this examination. The written test held for total 100 marks consisting of 100 multiple choice questions (MCQs) and each question carrying 1 mark. The final selection for appointment of best contestants is to be done 100% on written exam only. No Personal Interview or Group Discussion will be conducted by the department. Those who qualify the written examination by ranking high community wise will be invited by selection panel for verification of Original Certificates in 1:1 ratio.
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So why is this document being addressed as a team charter and not the project charter? The reason is that any six sigma project cannot be completed without a team. The team forms the core of the project.
The team charter should include the name of the project. Whilst naming a project ensure that it is self-explanatory and conveys the gist of the project. Hence try to steer clear of the current vogue of naming projects after Greek Gods!
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The project team members who are driving the process improvement project are also named in the team charter. These people are responsible for executing the project and ensuring that the project is a success.
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The business case should also emphasize the penalties the organization will have to bear by not undertaking the project. Similarly, it should also drive home the gains that will be accrued by implementing the project.
The problem statement in the team charter should detail the exact nature of the business problem and the extent of its impact on the organization. The loss of revenue per annum for the organization should be stated. Often this can be included in the project justification document which is delivered after the project business case is completed and approved.
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Neil Mason thinks it might just be…
For the pop crowd, for those fed on a strict diet of Top 40 hits, the first side of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's defining debut album, Welcome To The Pleasuredome, was a mind-blower. That Ron Hardy would open his eclectically electric Music Box sets by playing the whole damn thing, all 15 minutes of it, speaks volumes.
It was one movement, two tracks, 'The World Is My Oyster', a gentle string-plucker with the merest glimpse of those now distinctive Holly Johnson's pipes that gives way to the album's title track. Exotic bird song fades up, a gentle synth swells, Johnson appears again with a refrain from 'Ferry Cross The Mersey' – "life goes on day after day" – which disappears almost as soon as it arrives. And then out of nowhere, a chime ushers in a throbbing, warm bassline and we're off. It is very much a case of enjoy this trip, because it is a trip.
But who on earth had the balls to make a pop music track that was 15 minutes long? It's madness now, at the time the madness was off the scale. Those sort of shenanigans were the preserve of prog, acts who by the mid-1980s were going the way of the dinosaurs. At the controls was someone who was no stranger to progressive rock, producer Trevor Horn.
By the early 80s, he was following a trajectory that he didn't much like. A jobbing session musician with an increasing interest in production throughout the 1970s, he was thrust into the limelight when The Buggles landed a Number One hit with ' 'Video Killed The Radio Star' in September 1979. One thing led to another and before he knew it Horn had joined Yes, replacing Jon Anderson, with his Buggles wingman, Geoff Downes, taking Rick Wakeman's place. As you do (they shared a manager who thought it'd be a good idea). In 1980, Yes released the Trevor Horn-fronted 'Drama' and the pair toured with the band across America and UK. But Horn wasn't a performer in his heart. He had bigger plans, the seed of a lofty idea to produce glistening electronic pop that sounded like the past, present and future all rolled into one was forming.
"I always saw it in my head as Glen Campbell meets Kraftwerk," Horn told Electronic Sound magazine. "A pop record, but with the sensibility of a techno record, and the rhythm section of a techno band. It seemed like the most incredibly exotic thing at the time."
In 1982, along with his late wife Jill Sinclair, Horn bought the SARM West recording studio from Island Records big cheese Chris Blackwell. The role call of artists who had worked there was dizzying – Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Roxy Music, Sparks, The Clash, The Stones, Zeppelin, Genesis, Yes and Pet Shop Boys. If the walls could talk. Under new ownership, it also became home to the ZTT label, which the couple set up with NME writer Paul Morley. The label's first signing would drive a coach and horses through pop music, realising Horn's vision and sweeping away everything in its path.
In February 1983, an unsigned Liverpool band called Frankie Goes To Hollywood appeared on Channels 4's notorious Friday evening music show The Tube. To say they weren't the finished article is something of an understatement. They debuted a song called called 'Relax (In Heaven Everything Is Fine)', a kind of jazz funk durge performed by a band clad in leather, brandishing hand guns, whips and handcuffs. It was memorable that's for sure.
By May, Horn had signed them to ZTT and work began on their debut single. The first version of 'Relax' was recored live, which Horn later described as "pretty awful". By version two, Frankie were a different band. They were, in fact, Ian Dury's band The Blockheads whose version was also discarded for being too tame. By version three, Horn and keyboard player Andy Richard were toking the Nepalese dope and they stumbled on the now familiar pumping rhythm while mucking around with the studios new Fairlight. The £18,000 machine had arrived at SARM in 1982, just in time for use on Malcolm McLaren's 'Duck Rock' album. The weaponary got progressively better very quickly and by the time they came to record 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome', kit was king. Did it show? It did.
Released on the 29 October 1984, Welcome To The Pleasuredome didn't so much tap into the zeitgeist, it was the zeitgeist. At the time, the UK was in the thick end of Thatcherism. Off the back of a recession in the early 80s, her Tory government ran rougshod over the working classes. Sharp interest rate rises, brutal public spending cuts and mass coal pit closures sent employment soaring, peaking at over three million in 1984. Places like Liverpool were hit hard.
Add to that, The Cold War between America and Russia was reaching a crescendo and the threat of a nuclear war seemed very real. In August, during an unbroadcast microphone soundcheck, US President Ronald Regan quipped that "I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." All merry hell let loose once that was leaked.
Add a good dose of hedonism, chuck in a heap of sex, and 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome' was an album that really spoke to its audience. The 'I'm sorry I've left my card at home' dole office exchange that follows 'Fury' (a delicious cover of Gerry And The Pacemaker's 'Ferry Across The Mersey') can still be recited word for word by anyone who landed up on in the dole queues back then.
Nowhere was their finger more on the pulse than on their second single, the timely 'Two Tribes', which addressed the sheer terror and utter pointless of the impending mutually assured destruction, hitting the nail square on the head with the line "When two tribes go to war / A point is all that you can score".
The 12-inches remixes, which introduced an entire generation to the idea of extended floorfillers, seemed almost endless. They shifted by the absolute shedload. Record shops would clear the decks to accommodate stock. For months, it seemed that the only act selling records in the UK was Frankie. And people were buying 12-inches at that. They exposed a whole new audience to the tools they would require when when acid house landed and smiley faces picked up the baton in 1988. Frankie were the breeding ground for eager teens whose rave adventures were yet come.
'Welcome To The Pleasuredome' shifted 250,000 copies in its first week of release, eventually going triple platinum moving in excess of 900,000 units. Nearly 40 years on, it remains a stone-cold classic. While it makes few of the greatest albums of all-time charts, it really should. While it isn't obviously packed with dance music bangers, the repackaging of those songs as club remixes, and ringing endorsements from the likes of Ron Hardy, make a solid case for it living among once of the most important dance music albums of all-time. Sure, it would have been leaner and meaner as a gobsmacking single disc, but the ambition, the scale, the sheer balls of the thing earns it that rightful place at the very top table.
Neil Mason
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Dusted Down: Moodymann – Silence In The Secret Garden
The Detroit don's fourth album gets its first vinyl reissue
Moodymann – Silence In The Secret Garden (Peacefrog)
Despite his genuine confidence and happy-go-lucky charm, the music of Kenny Dixon Jr. is never without a feeling of loss. Between his stop-start sampling, happy-sad instrumentals, and allusions to "silence" and "taking away", there's an uncertainty to Moodymann tunes. It's the same kind of uncertainty we hear from hip-hop; sheer street confidence mixed with an insidious disaffection and desperation, that creeps along with growing up in a city like Detroit.
"Keep in mind, DJing back then was just putting the fuckin' record on, shut the fuck up, you're not gettin' paid, do what you're told," the artist said in a 2019 interview. Such a statement might seem too humble for a personality like Moody's, but behind his trademark fishnet mask and wildly huge shades, Moodymann's sense of grandiosity does not feel entitled or unearned. Rather, at the time of his debut albums and EPs in the late 90s, Dixon Jr. was just doing what he knew – putting up and shutting up, having fun, and brazenly working with what he had, with 'the way things were' in Detroit.
Silence In The Secret Garden, his fourth album, is seeing its first ever vinyl reissue this year via Peacefrog. And while it's nowhere near as lauded as Silentintroduction or Forevernevermore, its every facet drips with the same feverish, unlikely jazz and beatdown moods you'd expect from Detroit's trickster-prince.
Here's a lesser-known fact: the album's cover, garnished loudly by a distinctive red rose, is inspired by a Temptations album released a decade earlier, 'Special', which features a near-identical rose on its own cover. Released on Motown in 1989, The Temptations were well into their confident twilight years by this time, and from the leading, slow-soul hit 'Special' to the driving new jack swinger 'She's Better Than Money', it's clear this music was the kind to inspire sheer loving confidence. It does well to remove the listener from any sense of struggle, and rather plunges them deep into the blissful cloud of Motown fame, success and glory. Likewise, the rose on the cover lies neatly on a lush green spread, devoid of anxiety or urgency – safe.
Now contrast that with Silence In The Secret Garden' which sees its own red rose plunged in pitch blackness. Musically, it's clear this isn't your average garden. As we enter to the aptly-titled tune of 'Entrance 2 The Garden', Moody's inspiration from live music rings truer than ever, with rushed and dragged hi-hats abruptly swaying the mood of a slap bass and pianojazz moodscape, barely scratching at its thick overgrowth. Whereas The Temptations' sonic lawn was pristine and meticulously tended to, Moody's is half-wild, and while sexily maintained, it teems with flytraps and the sultry stenches of carrion flowers.
We prefer to take 'People' – the album's lead single and fan favourite – not as the laid-back, minimal jazz-house instrumental it sounds to be in isolation, but a surrealist intro to a slow-burning LP, the subtlety of which isn't immediately obvious. Meandering through styles, there are rugged techno allusions, like the pulsing acid line of 'LiveInLa 1998', made famous for its inclusion in Richie Hawtin's hybrid live set in 2003. And tying in with Moody's desire to reclaim a lost, haphazard confidence, it's filled with emotional longing. The tracks are fittingly lengthy: 'Shine' is an eight minute house bit tinged with the doubled-up ghost of R&B (it's "yeah" vocal sample reverberates in and out like a ghost), while the title track combines a new wave bass plod with street ambience and glistening windchimes.
On every tune, the beats are whomping and substantial, retaining a raw, not glossy, beauty. That might make Silence In The Secret Garden a challenge for many potential listeners, but this isn't an instantly gratifying album; in fact, patient punters will make it to 'Sweet Yesterday', where Moody appears on vocals under his Pitch Black City alias. Between indiscernible croonings, "your love is so good…" and "oooh, wow, wow, yesterday" peek through the mix's haze, proving it to be a loving ode to the past's better days. We realise in retrospect, though, that 'Silence…' is tinged with a gritty realness only Detroit can pull off.
Jude Iago James
Pre-order your vinyl copy of the Peacefrog re-issue of Silence In The Secret Garden here
Baxter Dury interview – "I'm not Phil Collins"
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We meet Mr Maserati himself
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Dennis Cruz 'Roots' Interview – "keeping those traditional qualities was something I really wanted to achieve"
Dennis Cruz tells us all about his Latin influences and life-defining new album
Speaking on his life-defining upcoming release 'Roots', Spanish tech pioneer Dennis Cruz is heartfelt and earnest.
"I wanted to work on a broader project, the cornerstone of my artist career… from music that I've been listening to all my life, from funk, salsa, and flamenco to house and disco." Such a broad fusion of styles with house and tech might be considered a difficult task by many. But as such a longstanding producer and DJ, Cruz should be trusted more than anyone.
Paying homage to one's own roots is sure to result in a happy fusion project. In this case, it's Cruz's Spanishness that inherently permeates every aspect of his music. The MÜSE co-founder has had a decade-spanning career, and for that reason, we're overjoyed to have caught up with the man for a brain-picking over this latest Crosstown Rebels release…
Your output has solely centred on EPs up until now. This being your debut album, how does it feel to branch out? Why release an album now?
When Damian (Crosstown Rebels boss Damian Lazarus) asked me to make an album I was a bit nervous as I'd only released EPs before, but I think this was the right moment to release an album project because my sound is more mature now. I feel more comfortable with my music and experimenting within my sound. 2020 also afforded me way more time than usual to work on the project, so it gave me plenty of freedom to focus on producing an album without as much pressure and with less limitations.
The influences on Roots cover many Spanish musical traditions, from Flamenco to Salsa. Growing up, which of these styles were you exposed to most? What were some of your earliest musical memories related to them?
Roots as a body of work represents both myself and my influences from all of my years making music and listening to it while I was younger. The project takes cues from Salsa and Flamenco to electronic genres such as house, techno, and even hip-hop. It fuses all of these influences and inspirations to showcase a project that shows exactly who I am as an artist and an individual.
My earliest memories of when I was a kid are definitely linked to music. My parents always had music playing at home, so I grew up with all the 80's sounds. I remember dancing in front of the TV, trying to copy the dance moves in Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video. I was obsessed with him!
Can you name any singles/albums in these styles that you grew with which are particularly special to you, and why?
It's difficult to name specific singles and albums when it comes to this project in particular, as the album spans so many different genres when it comes to sources of inspiration. As an artist and across Roots, I've taken influences from a wide range of different artists and bands – from Fania All Stars and Michael Jackson to Daft Punk, various Motown artists to The Police, Cypress Hill and Tupac to Camarón de la Isla… the list goes on!
The 'roots' traditions you're drawing on are very different to tech house. By fusing the genres, are you shedding light on a prominent lineage between the two, or are you traversing untrodden ground?
It was definitely an adventure and a new experience. Mixing traditional Spanish music styles with modern house was tricky initially, especially 'La Ratonera', which takes inspiration from Flamenco. That track took me around two months to finish, trying to find a beat that worked with the Flamenco sounds and more conventional instruments and elements that I'm used to working with – claps and vocals, for example.
On 'Los Tamales', which has heavy Salsa influences, we recorded most of the instruments and vocals live, so all of the piano, bass, congas, and brass. As a result, the track was challenging to make work in an electronic music format initially. The first drafts and versions of the track sounded too similar to your traditional Salsa record. I kept working and working on it until one day it all fit into place and all of the extra work to keep hold of the natural and organic feel of recording the elements live was instantly worth it. This process ended up meaning that the album was a continuous challenge but one that was fun and interesting, so it never felt like hard work but more of a journey and an adventure. Hopefully you'll be able to discover and uncover the traditional elements and sounds, some obvious and some less so, across each of the tracks on the project, as keeping those traditional qualities was something I really wanted to achieve.
The album also captures the life milestones that have made up your career. Can you recall any specific examples? How do you distill a lived moment into the sound of an album?
This is a tricky one as, in my opinion, my career doesn't have a significant milestone or one moment in particular that stands out above the rest. It's been more like many small steps combined, constantly working hard, making music and chasing my dream non-stop.
That said, the album definitely contains influences from a collection of experiences from all of my years touring. Travelling around the world has opened my eyes and my mind a lot, South America in particular. Whether that's sharing moments with friends while travelling to unique places like Macha Picchu in Peru, the Atacama Desert in Chile or Teotihuacan in Mexico, or simply experiencing new food, cultures, lifestyles and ways of living. These combined will have certainly contributed to some of the sounds, elements, and influences found within the album, adding to those traditional Spanish foundations we touched on earlier.
What was it like working with your various album collaborators, including Lee' Scratch' Perry? How do you feel about releasing a posthumous track with him?
It was so much fun. I had the opportunity to work with amazing artists, but working with Lee Scratch Perry was an immense honour and a pleasure that I'm fortunate to have been able to experience. Initially, I was a little apprehensive as I didn't know if the elements would mix, but Damian helped set it up, and everything flowed naturally from there. I had an idea in mind that I had worked on, and we sent it to Lee. He then listened to the draft, shaped his vocals, and sent them back. When I received them I had some initial doubts and second thoughts about making the whole track more dubs and club-orientated. However, we got to work with the original idea, and it worked out well – hopefully, we made a great record.
As I say, it was an amazing experience to work with such a revered figure and an icon of modern-day music before his unfortunate passing, and it's something I'll always treasure the experience, only as an artist but also as a fan and as a human being in general. Lee was a truly extraordinary artist.
Dennis Cruz – Roots LP is out now on Crosstown Rebels – buy it on 2xLP here or check here for streaming and other options.
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Eris Drew interview – "if someone says 'you shouldn't do that' then I do it."
Meet the goddess of chaos – or globetrotting DJ Eris Drew, as she's more commonly known
In many ways, lockdown came at just the right time for Eris Drew.
"I look at pictures from that time and I was, like, grey," she says from a hotel room in New York, where her and partner Octo Octa are preparing themselves for an all night back to back session at the city's Good Room club.
During the 18 months leading up to the shutdown, the pair – a romantic as well as DJ couple – had seen their reputations snowballing. Having come out as transgender some years before, they were already icons in the LGBTQ+ scene. But their renown was spreading far beyond that and well into the mainstream, with a bulging set of bookings to match it.
"The acceleration that Octa and I had during the 18 months before that was just so intense," Drew says. "I'm not going to say burnt out like we didn't want to do it, but we were so tired. Playing on those big systems, too, you get tinnitus and if you don't sleep it gets worse." As well as sheer fatigue, another issue was weighing on Drew's mind – her long overdue debut album. " I was thinking when am I going to have a chance to do this thing I want to do? It'd be hard to do even a single a year with that kind of schedule. It's hard."
They arrived back at Octo's isolated house in New Hampshire, about a five hour drive north from New York, right before the first curfew was imposed. For Drew, a native of Chicago – the pair met when she picked Octa up to drive her to a DJ gig in the city – it was quite a culture shock to be so far away from civilisation, with mainly – Octa aside – the wild turkeys that roam the area for company. "They're so sweet," Drew laughs, "They're wild ones – I mean, they're survivors, but they're very different to the agriculturally raised ones. They're cool. They're around all the time in the backyard you know. I always lived in Chicago where so much of the outside world imposes itself on you, so it was real nice to be surrounded by nature. But it did get to me after a while."
Quivering In Time is just that – an album that captures the moment when time sort of stood still, or more accurately was suspended in motion. It's a universally positive sounding album, one that blends elements of old skool dance music, such as well worn vocal snippets or breakbeats, with Drew's distinctive production and writing skills. There's a connection to the spiritual, unifying force of dance music's roots, for sure, but also a postmodern view of looking back on those days with fond but knowing distance.
Part of that vibe might be down to the huge haul of 90s dance records the pair, both prolific record buyers, found upstairs at a barn shop in New Hampshire. Drew admits that in quite a few cases, she's sampled tunes of that era for breakbeats and samples – which have a wonderfully spontaneous, spun-in feel – although some are from original sources. But the truth lies a bit deeper than that.
While she's pleased that the positivity and sense of freedom – she talks about the album's ultimate message being that people should be able to be who they want to be – radiates out of the grooves, it's not a case of a blissfully relaxed Drew getting to work. "People think I'm this happy person but really I was writing to keep myself happy." The process of making her debut album, as so often is the case, was one of looking back. "Memory was definitely a big thing – making the album I found that I was accessing memories and thinking about things that had happened in the past, even way back."
Nor is there any adherence to puritanism going on – not the kind of music preservation that some proponents of Chicago house might want a native of that city to stick to. Much as she loves the music, she feels no need to continue in that vein too closely, even though she feels the city at large should have a bit more pride in the global phenomenon it started.
"There is a Frankie Knuckles Way now," she says, "and there is a bit of public acknowledgment of the fact it comes from there, but not much. The average person in Chicago, they don't give a fuck about that. They're like what do you mean house music, that's Spanish isn't it?! That's from Europe, right? I mean, if you go to Minneapolis there's a Prince store at the airport – it's not like that in Chicago!"
I play guitar on one song on the album "Loving Clav". I think I told him I didn't play much guitar on the album, the interview quotes me as playing none.
There are even – shock, horror – guitars on the album. Does she play them? "Well, I play guitar on one song ('Loving Clav') but I love guitars, so there are a lot sampled on the album, a lot of synthesised guitar tones as well. I love guitar pedals, I use all these tremolo and overdrive pedals.
"Guitars are the last taboo. I won't name names but there are people who've said 'you can't have guitar on dance music' But what about disco?!!"
A bit of rebellion, in any case, is very much part of the Eris Drew deal. "Eris was the Greek goddess of chaos," she explains, "and that's me too. There's always a bit of chaos in the air. So, if someone says 'you shouldn't do that' then I do it. I like things to be beautiful but also fully chaotic, full of life and energy."
With lockdown over – for now, at least – Eris and Octo have been busy catching up for lost time, with shows in the US, Canada and the UK in the first few weeks and plenty more to follow. And she is already noticing the effect.
"I've realised in the past few weeks that my mood has changed, even my physical appearance has changed. It's happiness. I realized there's a whole load of drama and trauma and bullshit inside me, but if anything, this album is trying to do something about it."
The one track from Quivering In Time she's been proudly playing in her set is the moody mid-paced 'Pick 'Em Up' "because it's such a good chaotic rager". She's not one for chucking in large sections of the album into her sets, even if it might shift a few extra copies " I've never been one of those DJs who is into playing their own music though. I think in my heart, as a DJ I'm a collage artist, the way I think about it is 'I already created that collage'."
She's noticed that after lockdown. people are playing faster. "I'm playing 130-133bpm, and that's like slow for a house DJ at the moment."
But there's no doubt that what she lacks in speediness, she and Octo are more than capable than making up for in endurance. Their back to back sets often go for eight and a half or even nine hours at a time. That's made them popular with punters – but perhaps a little less so with some of technical staff, as a recent experience in the US demonstrated.
"We came on at 4-30am and played through to 12:30 pm," she grins, "and the lights guy was so angry with us he snapped his laptop in half. "
She may have been locked down for over a year, but what more proof do you need that Eris, the goddess of chaos, is well and truly back in business. Long may it continue.
Ben Willmott
Pre-order your Quivering In Time on double gatefold vinyl here
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These shots are a few of my favorites from a very cold morning in Blackstone, IL on December 29, 2010.
When we were traveling for the Christmas Holiday, we stopped down at Chad's family's farm for a few days. They had over a foot of snow and ice crystals had formed on everything.
I wanted to capture the sparkling beauty of the scenery bathing in the warm glow of the sunrise.
Their Black Lab, Harley, served as my photo assistant for a couple hours. We both got quite a workout!