Paul Simon's Old Friends: A Personal Reading
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Marshall Duke, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University, talks about Paul Simon's ability to connect with people across generations, especially in his song "Old Friends" (recorded in 1968). Paul Simon will deliver the 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, February 10-12, 2013. The Ellmann Lectures consist of a series of public lectures that are ticketed but free and open to the public. Simon's lectures will concern, in part, an overview of the historical antecedents of the music made between 1966 and 1970. Prof. Marshall is a clinical psychologist whose teaching and research examine questions of personality and psychopathology through the lenses of art, fiction and music. He has also studied the importance of rituals and family stories in the health and well-being of children.
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