Chas Smith
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Chas Smith is an author, musician, radio personality, and a Cleveland State University music professor.
He has been teaching and exploring the cultural aspects of American Roots music for over ten years. He holds a Masters degree in music from Cleveland State University. Smith has been playing keyboards and singing for over 30 years in many different genres, including his work with the band Einstein's Secret Orchestra (also called Einstein's Stardust Outlaws), and has produced several CDs of their music. He presently plays and records with the country-blues Americana band The Fulbrights.
He and the band have often appeared on stage with Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the SubGenius, and perform on several of their CDs. He has appeared at both the Starwood Festival[1] and the WinterStar Symposium, offering both performances and classes on music history and electronic trance music, and hosts a dance event within the Starwood Festival called the "Rumble in the Jungle". He spent 17 years creating soundscapes on his weekly SwampRadio ESO radio show at WCSB Cleveland, works with the Cleveland Opera as a music mentor in grade schools, and teaches his Roots of Rock classes at CSU.
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- From Woodstock to the Moon: The Cultural Evolution of Rock Music (2001 Kendall-Hunt Publishing)
- The Soul of Sunrise: Grassroots Music in America (2005 Kendall-Hunt Publishing)
