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Pink Floyd was an English rock band formed in 1965. With her music and the visual design of her records and stage performances, she created a new style. The unusual name goes back to the blues musicians Pink(ney) Anderson and Floyd Council, who were still alive at the time the band was founded.

Shawnee, Ohio is a sonic portrait––past and present, real and imagined––of a small Appalachian town in the United States. Performed with sampled archives, video, field recordings, and live musicians, Shawnee, Ohio critically engages ecology, energy, place, and personal history to ask: What are the stories of people from a rural town? What are their memories and thoughts of mining? Of fracking? What are the sounds of a town fighting to survive after a century of economic decline and environmental degradation? These sounds are used as compositional material reflecting layers of history in Appalachian Ohio. Shawnee’s history includes coal, gas, oil, and clay extraction, and the formation of early labor unions. The town’s downturn and partial restoration act as an ethos of the struggles and hopes of the larger region, now immersed in a controversial fracking boom. Shawnee, Ohio considers these histories, evokes place through sound, and listens to the present alongside traces of the past.

by Rick Burton (Author),‎ Jake Hirshman (Author),‎ Norm O’Reilly (Author),‎ Andy Dolich (Author),‎ Heather Lawrence (Author),‎ Norm O’Reilly (Author),‎ Oliver Luck (Foreword),‎ Pat O’Conner (Afterword)