Thomas Conner

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Thomas Hartnell Conner (* 1970 ) is an American journalist.

biography

Thomas Conner is originally from Oklahoma City . There he attended a private school from 1975 and graduated in 1988. He then went to the University of Oklahoma in nearby Norman and studied media studies. In 1993 he graduated with a master's degree.

In 1994 he became editor of the major daily newspaper Tulsa World and reported from the music scene. He was able to distinguish himself in particular as a reviewer for local music from Oklahoma. He was also responsible for the Spot Music Awards - organized by the newspaper - and the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival . After more than a decade, he left Tulsa in 2005 and went to Chicago to work as the arts editor for the Chicago Sun-Times . He pursued this activity until 2013.

Together with well-known author John Wooley , he wrote the book Forever Lounge: A Laid-Back Price Guide to Languid Sounds , a work on lounge music that was published in 1999. For the 2007 published book Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State , he wrote an essay on the Red Dirt genre. In 2009 he wrote the one-act Time Changes Everything with Wooley . This was about a fictional meeting of the country and folk legends Woody Guthrie and Bob Wills . John Cooper and Bradley Piccolo, members of the Red Dirt Rangers , starred.

Conner has been doing his PhD at the University of California at San Diego since 2013 to teach as a professor himself.

Works

  • 1999: Forever Lounge (with John Wooley)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Conner at intelius.com (English)
  2. ↑ Thomas Conner ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at instantcheckmate.com (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.instantcheckmate.com
  3. ↑ Thomas Conner at peoplefinders.com (English)
  4. ↑ Gene Triplett: Production ponders, 'What if Woody Guthrie and Bob Wills had met?' NewsOK.com , March 19, 2010, accessed April 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Conner, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conner, Thomas Hartnell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970