Matthew A. Donahue

Teaching Professor
Department of Popular Culture
348 Shatzel Hall | 419-372-9181 | mattdon@bgsu.edu
www.md1210.com

Professional Affiliations:

• Editorial Advisory Board Metal Music Studies Journal
• Ohio Humanities Speakers Bureau
• Society for Commercia Archeology
• BMI-Broadcast Music Incorporated-Songwriter and Music Publisher Representation

• Ph.D. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
• M.L.I.S. Library and Information Science, Kent State University
• M.A. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
• B.A. Cultural Studies-University College, University of Toledo

• Popular Culture
• Popular Music
• Music Subcultures (Punk, Heavy Metal, Reggae and Rap)
• Commercial Archeology
• Ethnography/Ethnomusicology
• Travel and Tourism
• Outsider Art (Art Cars, Street Photography, Collage/Mixed Media, Popular Culture in Modern Art)
  
  

Undergraduate Courses:

• POPC 1650 Popular Culture and the Media (Face to Face/Online)
• POPC 2800 Introduction to Popular Music (Face to Face/Online)
• POPC 3800 Rock Music Subcultures, Punk, Heavy Metal, Reggae and Rap (Face to Face/Online)
• POPC 3500 Popular Music in Film
• POPC 4900 Independent Study/Internship in Popular Culture
  

Graduate Courses:

• POPC 6800 Music as Popular Culture
• POPC 6900 Independent Study
  
  

Currently I am working on a commercial archeology photography documentation project of Amsterdam, Netherlands titled The Amsterdam Sign and also Tokyo, Japan titled The Tokyo Sign Project.  I am working on a documentary film on drummer, musician and producer Keith LeBlanc titled Keith LeBlanc: 12 Movements of Book…One Life in Music. In music I am working with the super group Tackhead, and producers Adrian Sherwood, Skip “Little Axe” McDonald and On-U Sound Records.  In visual art, I am continuing to create popular culture inspired collage art with the Netherlands Windmill Stamp Project series and color themed collages.  I continue to serve as an editorial advisory board member for the Metal Music Studies Journal and a judge for the regional Emmys for the National Academy of Television and Arts and Sciences and lecturing on popular culture topics around the state of Ohio as a member of Ohio’s, Ohio Humanities Speakers Bureau.

Awards and Honors:

• Authors and Artists Award Recognition, Friends of the Library, Bowling Green State University, 2003 through to 2024.
• Honor of Attainment Recognition, 133^rd General Assembly of the State of Ohio, 2019.
• Bowling Green Arts Council Award, 2016, NOWOH Northwest Ohio Community Art Show Exhibition, BGSU Galleries, Bowling Green State University.
• Editor’s Choice Award, 2010, Maker Faire, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.

Invited Papers:

• Donahue, Matthew, “The History of Rock and Roll,” Clyde Museum and Historical Center, Clyde, Ohio, 2024.
• Donahue, Matthew, “The Music of the British Invasion,” Norwalk Public Library, Norwalk, Ohio 2024.
• Donahue, Matthew, “The History of Rock and Roll,” Marvin Memorial Library, Shelby, Ohio, 2024.
• Donahue, Matthew, “The Hines Farm Blues Club,” Tiffin-Seneca Public Library, Tiffin, Ohio, 2022.
• Donahue, Matthew, “Pop Culture in the Context of 1972,” Armstrong Air and Space Museum, Wapakoneta, Ohio, 2022.
• Donahue, Matthew, “Archiving and Mass Media,” Roundtable Discussion-University of Kansas Film and Media Studies Career Day, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2021.
• Donahue, Matthew, “Popular Music and Memory,” Ohio Humanities Event, Ohio Humanities, Columbus, Ohio, 2021.

Books:

• Donahue, Matthew. Taking It to the Streets: An Art Car Experience, Jive Bomb Press, 2009.
• Donahue, Matthew Editor. Avenue of Happiness: Poems by Oba Maja, Poetry Chapbook, Jive Bomb Press, 2003.
• Donahue, Matthew.  I’ll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club, Jive Bomb Press, 1999, second edition 2002.

Articles:

• Donahue, Matthew.  “Madonna Studies: The Queen of Pop (Culture) Marks Another Milestone” in Pollstar (Madonna Issue), 2024.

Videos/Documentaries:

• Keith LeBlanc: 12 Movements of Boom…One Life in Music, co-producer, co-director, co-writer of documentary on drummer, music legend, Keith LeBlanc (Work in Progress)
• Skip “Little Axe” McDonald: One Man-One Night…One Life Music, co-producer, co-director, co-writer of documentary on music legend Skip “Little Axe” McDonald
• The Amsterdam T-Shirt Project, co-producer, co-director, co-writer of documentary on the souvenir t-shirt phenomenon in Amsterdam, Holland, 2018.
• Car Power: Another Art Car Experience, Short documentary on the creation of “Car Power” art car, 2012.
• Motorhead Matters, Producer, director and writer of a documentary exploring the cultural significance of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Motorhead, 2009.
• The Hines Farm Blues Club, Co-Producer, Co-Director, Co-Writer of national PBS Video Documentary WBGU Television-Bowling Green State University; Bowling Green, Ohio, 2004.

Sound Recordings:

• Little Axe: One Man, One Night, CD Release, 12:10 Records, 2016. (Executive Producer)

Artwork Exhibited at Art Exhibitions:

• Undisclosed, Martin Porter Gallery, Toledo School for the Arts, Toledo, Ohio 2013 to 2024.
• NOWOH Northwest Ohio Community Art Show Exhibition, BGSU Galleries, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 2014 to 2024.
• Community Expressions Art Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Upper Arlington, Ohio 2024.
• Art Car Exhibitor, King Wamba Parade, Old West End Festival, Toledo, Ohio 2024.
• Art Car Exhibitor, Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio 2019.
• Work That’s Funny Exhibition, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo Art Loop, Toledo, Ohio 2016.