David Smith
Host of David and ArtDavid Smith, host of David and Art, is an American historian with broad interests in his field. He’s been at Baylor University since 2002 teaching classes in American history, military history, and cultural history. For eight years he wrote an arts and culture column for the Waco Tribune-Herald, and his writings on history, art, and culture have appeared in other newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to the Dallas Morning News.
The very first record he remembers listening to when he was little was Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic’s recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and that set him on a lifelong path of loving music and the arts. He’s loved history for almost as long, and finally saw them come together in his career. He believes that history illuminates the arts and the arts illuminate history—that they co-exist and are best understood together.
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Every once in a while, you run across a piece of broadcasting history that makes you realize just how different radio used to be. On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes us back to one of those moments, when the relationship between radio and music looked very different from what we know today. -
There are some artists whose careers become so much a part of our lives that we stop noticing just how much they have accomplished. On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes a look at one of those artists, and at a career that began in a very different place and time.
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There are some artists whose careers become so much a part of our lives that we stop noticing just how much they have accomplished. On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes a look at one of those artists, and at a career that began in a very different place and time.
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Every once in a while, you run across a piece of broadcasting history that makes you realize just how different radio used to be. On today’s David and Art, host David Smith takes us back to one of those moments, when the relationship between radio and music looked very different from what we know today.
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This week on David and art, a trip back in time - to the Austin music scene of the '70s and '80s, and a few musical characters who were part of it. Here's David Smith.
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This week on David and art, a trip back in time - to the Austin music scene of the '70s and '80s, and a few musical characters who were part of it. Here's David Smith.
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Sometimes a piece of art becomes important for reasons that have very little to do with the art itself. Here's David Smith with this week's edition of David and Art.
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Sometimes a piece of art becomes important for reasons that have very little to do with the art itself. Here's David Smith with this week's edition of David and Art.
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On today’s David and Art, host David Smith looks at some of the very different paths Modernist artists took.
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On today’s David and Art, host David Smith looks at some of the very different paths Modernist artists took.
