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Potter was born in Cleveland, Ohio , in 1960. He attended St. John's Lutheran School, Gilmour Academy , and the Friends School in Cleveland (later the School On Magnolia ). In 1979, he founded the Black Snake record label, on which he released two albums of his own solo guitar compositions, as well as a single recording of a bluegrass version of DEVO 's Mongoloid (song) by the Hotfoot Quartet . He later attended Goddard College and The Evergreen State College ; he earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Brown University in 1991. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island .




BOOKS

''Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-hop and the Politics of Postmodernism'', SUNY Press 1995 (ISBN 0791426262)

''Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875'', University of Washington Press (ISBN 0295986808)


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