Ron Cohen: Part 3

My Rainbow Quest: The Life of Ronald D. Cohen Part 3 Managing Editor’s Note: This third, and final installment of Ron Cohen’s remarkable career shows his political bent in connection to Folk Music.  Pete Seeger is truly iconic in American culture. Alan Lomax and The Weavers aren’t far behind. Folklorist Archie Green was a major […]

Ron Cohen: Part 2

University of Minnesota Dr. Ronald D. Cohen, Retired Indiana University Northwest Gary Indiana U.S.A.   I graduated from the University of California, Berkley in June 1962 During my senior year, Clarke Chambers, professor from the University of Minnesota was hired to teach the recent US history course. I talked with Chambers about going to graduate […]

My Rainbow Quest: The Life of Ronald D. Cohen, Part 1

Dr. Ronald D. Cohen, Retired Indiana University Northwest Gary Indiana U.S.A.   My brother Alan, four years my senior (b. 1936), was a major influence on my early life, in many ways, in particular my interest in folk music, past and present. I was born in 1940 in Eagle Rock, an older neighborhood of Los Angeles, […]