Dr. Mark Howell’s presentation for this year’s Symposium Living Loud and Living Fast will explore the connections between musicians and motorsports. The presentation highlights how several well-known professional musicians from diverse genres took their interest in high-performance vehicles to regional, national, and sometimes international levels of motor racing competition.

This episode is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family – and was recorded in front of a live studio audience. And has been Edited, Remastered and Produced in partnership with the Motoring Podcast Network.

Bio

Mark Howell is a professor of Communications at Northwestern Michigan College. Prior to NMC, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University.

As a Motorsports historian, Dr. Howell has published numerous articles and two books: From Moonshine to Madison Avenue: A Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series (1997) and Motorsports and American Culture: From Demolition Derbies to NASCAR (2014).

Since 2011, he has been a Senior Writer for frontstretch.com, where his essays appear every Wednesday during the racing season. Dr. Howell also spent three years (2001-2003) as a part-time crew member with Brett Bodine Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, and has worked closely with drivers Hut Stricklin, Kenny Wallace, and Todd Bodine.