An Afternoon with Michael Ray FitzGerald

Come hear listen to  FitzGerald talk about his historical work about the city’s amazing music history, especially the music that grew up in and around Riverside, which FitzGerald witnessed firsthand.

Michael Ray FitzGerald, PhD, is a musician, media scholar and former university instructor from Jacksonville. He is the author of five books including the award-winning Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock. He has a master’s degree in media history from University of Florida and a doctoral degree in film and television from University of Reading (UK).

He started writing music criticism in the mid-1980s for Jacksonville’s Southeast Entertainer and went on to write for more than 30 local, national and international publications including the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.