David Simonelli

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Dr. David Simonelli

Professor

Humanities & Social Sciences

DeBartolo Hall 533

phone: (330) 941-1601

dsimonelli@ysu.edu

Research Interests

I have published articles and a book on rock music and British culture in the mid-twentieth century; my book is entitled Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s. I just published an article comparing Italian Futurism in the 1910s and 1920s to the Mod subculture in London in the 1950s and 1960s. I am also pursuing a documentary project on the Manhattan punk scene of the mid-1970s.

Teaching Interests

I teach mostly contemporary British, American and world history at YSU. Amongst recent upper division courses I have taught are:
History of Ireland
US in Crisis: 1900-1945
The World since 1945
The Vietnam War
Europe since 1715
Britain and Its Empire

  • 2001

    Ph D, British history

    Tulane University

  • 1988

    BA, History/Political Science

    University of Connecticut

  • 2024

    "Psychedelic/Progressive Rock and Revolution in Britain – Which Revolution?"

    D. Simonelli

  • 2023

    "Futurism on the Streets of London"

    D. Simonelli

    Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, volume 11/12

  • 2024

    "The Subcultures Network (eds), Let's spend the night together: Sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s-80s (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023)"

    D. Simonelli

    Journal of British Studies

  • 2022

    "Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul"

    D. Simonelli

    Cultural & Social History, volume 19, issue 1/Winter 2022, p. 111-113

  • 2017

    "Defining Documents in World History: The 17th Century"

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    Salem Press

  • 2017

    "Defining Documents in World History: Nationalism & Populism"

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    Salem Press

  • 2017

    "Milestone Documents of American Leaders"

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    Grey House Publishing

  • 2012

    "Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s"

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    Lexington Books

  • 2009

    "'[L]aughing nations of happy children who have never grown up': Race, the Concept of Commonwealth and the 1924-25 British Empire Exhibition"

    D. Simonelli

    Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, volume 10, issue 1

  • 2007

    "BBC Rock Music Programming on Radio and Television and the Progressive Rock Audience, 1967-1973"

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    Popular Music History, volume 2, issue 1

  • 2002

    "Anarchy, Pop and Violence: The Punk Rock Subculture and the Rhetoric of Class, 1976-1978"

    D. Simonelli

    Contemporary British History, volume 16, issue 2

  • 2024 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Friends of the Salem Library

  • 2023 - 2023

    Guest Speaker
    Ancient Order of Hibernians

  • 2023 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Friends of the Salem Library

  • 2022 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Friends of the Salem Library

  • 2021 - present

    Volunteer
    Mercy Health Hospice of the Valley

  • 2019 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Friends of the Boardman Library

  • 2019 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Friends of the Salem Library

  • 2018 - present

    Participant
    City Club of the Mahoning Valley: Views & Brews

  • 2012 - 2015

    Other
    Youngstown Film Festival

  • 2007 - 2015

    Other
    Youngstown Film