It's easy to connect with the symbol that is "Johnny Cash," whether you're a rebel, a wanderer, or even a Christian. But how do these contradictions come together as some kind of American identity? And how do these final recordings of a humble storyteller speak to our need for the man to come around?

Additional Resources:

• Johnny Cash’s American albums hit the heart and soul
• Why Johnny Cash's American Recordings Are The Perfect Epitaph To His Career
• Performing Songwriter – Rick Rubin
• How The ‘American Recordings’ Series Revitalized Johnny Cash’s Career
• 'American' Remembered: Rick Rubin On Johnny Cash

After viewing the blockbuster Disney princess film Frozen with actual little kids, we look at all the cooks in this corporate cartoon kitchen. With this many people involved, how did they pull it off? And is this cartoon whitewashed? Too feminist? Not feminist enough? How is this fairy tale defining gender and ethnicity for an entire generation?

Additional Resources:

• From the Heat of Royal Passion, Poof! It’s Permafrost Disney’s ‘Frozen,’ a Makeover of ‘The Snow Queen’
• Is 'Frozen' a New, Bona Fide Disney Classic?
• Boys Don’t Run Away From These Princesses
• Countdown to Disney "Frozen" : How one simple suggestion broke the ice on the "Snow Queen" 's decades-long story problems
• A spoiler-y, slightly nerdy interview about Disney's Frozen
• Unfreezing ‘Frozen:’ The making of the newest fairy tale in 3D by Disney
• Frozen: inside Disney's billion-dollar social media hit
• Michael, Peter, Chris and Jennifer Talk Frozen and It's Success
• Secret Phone Recording Helped Idina Menzel Land New Disney Role
• THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY OF FROZEN
• Disney's Frozen and the 'gay agenda'
• UNH degree played a part in Oscar-winning movie
• Immersed in Movies: First Look: Designing the Winter Wonderland of ‘Frozen’
• The tech of Disney’s Frozen and Get a Horse!
• The Scrambled Sexuality of 'Frozen's "Let It Go"
• Frozen lambasted as pro-gay propaganda by Christian pastor
• Frozen Director Now Apologizes to Parents for 'Let It Go'

In the second part of our series on Dischord Records, we look at the politics of Washington D.C.'s music scene going into the 1990s... when art met commerce. 

Additional Resources:

• Andersen, M. and Jenkins, M. (2009). Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk In The Nation's Capital, Akashic Books.
• Dischord on Bandcamp (Free Streaming)

In the first of our two episodes on Dischord Records we look at the punk community of Washington D.C. in the 1980s and its conflicting ethics of politics, violence and drug abuse. Follow along with the story of Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson's label until its redefining summer of 1985.

Additional Resources:

• Dischord Records – History
• Thompson, S. (2001). Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late. College Literature, 28(2), 48.
• Cuffman, T. (2015). Idle musical community: Dischord Records and anarchic DIY practice. Contemporary Justice Review, 18(1), 4. doi:10.1080/10282580.2015.1005502
• Goshert, J. C. (2000). 'Punk' after the Pistols: American Music, Economics, and Politics in the 1980s and 1990s. Popular Music & Society, 24(1), 85.
• Doherty, B. (1997). The embarrassment of riches. (cover story). Reason, 29(4), 21.
• Dischord Records: Out of Step With The World
• Dischord Records: Doing It Wrong
• Andersen, M. and Jenkins, M. (2009). Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk In The Nation's Capital, Akashic Books.