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KL in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Windhover Hall designed by Santiago Calatrava. Ann Peterson photo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kevernacular (Kevin Lynch) is a veteran, award-winning arts journalist, educator and visual artist. He won his sixth Milwaukee Press Club award in 2023 for “Best Critical Review of the Arts” for the Culture Currents<\/em> blog “Miguel Zenon builds a bridge from his Puerto Rican soul to the world.”<\/p>\n

Lynch was a long-time staff arts writer for The Capital Times<\/em> in Madison and\u00a0The Milwaukee Journal,<\/em> where he was lead writer of a Pulitzer-nominated Newspapers in Education project called “That’s Jazz,” which was used in Milwaukee Public Schools and The Milwaukee Jazz Experience.<\/p>\n

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Kevernacular (right, in black Robert Johnson T-Shirt) with Jim Verdin, outside of Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, for Tedeschi-Trucks Band concert, June 2013. Photo by Kris Naab Verdin.<\/em><\/p>\n

Among other publications, he’s written for Down Beat, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, New Art Examiner, Rain Taxi, American Record Guide, CODA (The Canadian jazz magazine), Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine, Scene PBS TV magazine (Minneapolis), Graven Images: A Journal of Culture, Law and the Sacred;\u00a0<\/em>The Shepherd Express, OnMilwaukee.com\u00a0<\/em>and a featured blogger on roots music for NoDepression.com<\/em>. Lynch has taught cultural journalism, English rhetoric and composition (while earning half of the credits for a PhD. in American Literature), and film studies. He’s been a music program host for WLUM-FM and WMSE-FM in Milwaukee. Lynch is working on a novel, Melville’s Trace or, The Jackal. <\/em>He’s\u00a0also a visual artist and studied jazz piano and theory at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. He lives in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

STATEMENT:<\/strong> In blog writing and reporting, I strive to maintain and espouse the same journalistic standards of\u00a0professionalism cultivated in over 30 years as a working arts journalist. Given the freedom of the blogosphere, misinformation compounds and spreads at an alarming rate. So, maintaining such standards is more important than ever, even as I welcome the new freedom and vibrancy.<\/p>\n

My blogger’s moniker suggests a particular hybrid quality\u00a0as a cultural observer. My sense is that meaningful distinctions between fine and vernacular art blur in the cultural currents — aside from functional genre names. I’ve covered and researched both realms plenty and categories help identify and clarify\u00a0— fine vs. folk vs. pop art – \u00a0but there’s no hierarchy of quality among genres or traditions, in my mind.\u00a0As Duke Ellington said, “There’s two kinds of music, good music and bad music.”<\/p>\n

“Vernaculars speak” implicitly\u00a0nags the old\u00a0culture-class question of, say, who’s better: Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas? Pop culture poet\/songwriter Bob Dylan is taken\u00a0seriously today by intelligencia, of course — almost to death. But I think that\u00a0beyond Bob, and because of him,\u00a0the craft and\u00a0art of\u00a0songwriting has spread and grown almost exponentially\u00a0in many\u00a0vernacular idioms,\u00a0often in new hybrids. And that phenomenon is important and noteworthy.<\/p>\n

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KL at the Blue Plum Music and Arts Festival, Johnson City, Tennessee, June 2012. photo by Sheila Lynch<\/em><\/p>\n

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Culture Currents Theme Photo CREDIT: The sinuous flow of the Delaware Water Gap in the Appalachian Mountains is courtesy of www.mooncruisegallery.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The previous theme photo — a stormy,\u00a0\u00a0panoramic image of The Tetons, the iconic mountain range in Wyoming — was taken by Michael Melford\u00a0of\u00a0National Geographic<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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