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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

Kent, a small town with big music

Abigail Miller February 10, 2019

It’s January 1974, and the Kent State Undergraduate Student Government has booked the up-and-coming artist Bruce Springsteen to perform on campus. To popular music fans at the time, it might not have...

Kent State Provost Todd Diacon, Joe Walsh of The Eagles and Jason Prufer looking at a manuscript of "Small Town, Big Music" on the 12th floor of the KSU library.

Q&A with KSU alumnus, author Jason Prufer

Lauren Crenshaw February 9, 2019

 The following is an interview with Jason Prufer, a senior library associate at Kent State and the author of “Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and...

Adriona Murphy

OPINION: It’s a small world after all

Adriona Murphy November 10, 2018

My hometown looks like something straight out of a Hallmark movie: A quaint little Main Street lined with trees and local shops, kids riding their bikes and people jogging with their dogs.It all sounds...