Texas Tech Percussion Professor, Co-Director of NCPP and the first female President of the Percussive Arts Society, Lisa Rogers, talks about getting the Texas Tech job (02:05), starting “Apocalypso Now” (21:10), being PAS President and the first female to hold the job (27:10), growing up in Port Lavaca, TX and her early involvement in the arts (38:35), going to Texas State and then Texas Tech for undergrad (55:15), eventually starting and loving the Master’s Degree at Texas Tech (01:10:35), doing the doctorate at the University of Oklahoma while also later teaching there (01:18:05), and then is subjected to Random-Ass Questions (01:31:10).

Finishing with a rave on the book Schadenfreude: A Love Story and Trainspotting (01:45:55).

Links:

Lisa Rogers' Texas Tech Page

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Ray Price

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