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David Samuels (other)
David Samuels may refer to: * David Samuels (political scientist), political science professor * David Samuels (writer) (born 1967), American author * Dave Samuels David Alan Samuels (October 9, 1948 – April 22, 2019) was an American vibraphone and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra. His recordings and live performances during that period also reflect his pr ... (1948–2019), American musician See also * David Samuel (other) {{Hndis, Samuels, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Samuels (political Scientist)
David Julian Samuels is an American political scientist who is the Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Samuels earned his BA from Swarthmore College in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1998. He joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1998, and was named full professor in 2010. He was awarded a Distinguished McKnight University Professorship in 2012. Samuels specializes in comparative politics and Brazilian politics. He is the author of ''Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil'' (Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ..., 2003) and "Separation of Powers" in the ''Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics''. He has published a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Samuels (writer)
David Samuels (born 1967) is an American non-fiction and fiction writer. He is the editor of ''County Highway'', a magazine in the form of a 19th-century American broadsheet which he founded with Walter Kirn. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a longtime contributing editor at ''Harper's Magazine; a'' contributor to ''The Atlantic,'' N+1, ''The New Yorker'' and other magazines; and the literary editor of '' Tablet''. Background and education Samuels grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1989, he graduated with a BA degree in history from Harvard College, where he was an editor of the ''Harvard Lampoon''. He became a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he received a master's degree in history in 1993. Career Early years Samuels' first article to receive much public attention was a controversial 1991 cover story on rap music in ''The New Republic''; the piece contended that the primary hip-hop audience consisted of white suburb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Samuels
David Alan Samuels (October 9, 1948 – April 22, 2019) was an American vibraphone and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra. His recordings and live performances during that period also reflect his prowess on the steelpan, a tuned percussion instrument of Trinidadian origin. Biography Samuels was born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States. At the age of six he started playing drums and piano. He learned vibes and marimba while a student at Boston University. He continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music, also in Boston, and studied with vibraphonist Gary Burton. He taught percussion at Berklee before moving to New York City in 1974. Soon he was recording and performing with Gerry Mulligan, Carla Bley, and Gerry Niewood. He played in a vibes/marimba duo with David Friedman, who had been his teacher at Boston, releasing albums under the name Double Image. In 1979 he began recording with Spyro Gyra, eventually becoming a memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |