Director of the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Susan C. Cook, chats with Ben about her early "Wonderbread" years in the UP of Michigan, how ragtime culture was similar to the birth of hip-hop culture, and the new expansion of the School of Music.

Links to Susan's upcoming virtual Badger Talk Live, and upcoming and past Badger Talk Live recordings, can be found here: https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/badger-talks-live/

Susan's book "Bodes of Sound" connecting culture and youth across the generations can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/Bodies-of-Sound-Studies-Across-Popular-Music-and-Dance/Cook-Dodds/p/book/9781138248144