Michael J. Kramer is a historian, cultural critic, and editor. He is the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the digital exhibition The Berkeley Folk Music Festival and the Folk Music Revival on the US West Coast (July 2021). His current book project focuses on the 1976 US bicentennial celebrations and he is also co-editing the selected essays of the countercultural social critic Theodore Roszak. Kramer has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, Newsday, New Lines, The Point, and the Society for US Intellectual History Book Review. He edits The Carryall, an online journal of US cultural and intellectual history, and blogs at Culture Rover: Promiscuous Cultural Criticism. He is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport. More about his work can be found at his website, michaeljkramer.net.
