April 17th @ 5:30 PM: Daphne A. Brooks on “Porgy and Bess”
Wednesday, April 17t, 5:30 PM:
106 Stoeckel Hall
Daphne A. Brooks, “Rhapsody and Ruin: Porgy and Bess, Cultural Domination and the Story of America”
In this lecture, Daphne A. Brooks, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and Music, mines the archive in order to trace the legacy of racial performance and racial and gender violence made manifest in 1935’s Porgy and Bess. It moves from an exploration of the Heyward and Gershwin archives to a consideration of the genius Black women culture workers who’ve grappled with the opera’s legacy.
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April 10th @ 5:30 PM: Brian Kane on Sound Archives, Robert F. Williams, and Al Hibbler
Wednesday, April 10, 5:30pm
106 Stoeckel Hall
Brian Kane, “The Sound Archive and the Sonic Archive: Robert F. Williams in Cuba and Al Hibbler in Birmingham”
In this lecture/demonstration, Brian Kane, Associate Professor of Music and Affiliated Faculty, Film and Media Studies, will discuss some problems and challenges of historical sound studies by considering the a distinction between “the sound archive” and “the sonic archive.” The demonstration will focus on two sound recordings from the 1960s and the struggle for civil rights: a radio broadcast by the activist, Robert F. Williams, and a speech given by the singer Al Hibbler in support of the Birmingham campaign.
March 29th @ 10:30 AM: BSAW Brunch & Research Meeting
Friday, March 29th, 10:30 AM — 12 Noon
106 Stoeckel Hall
Grads, postdocs, undergrads, fellow faculty–come with your interests, come with your projects, come with your ideas for programming and come learn more about BSAW resources and future events!
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March 5th @ 4pm: A Conversation with Maurice Wallace and Alexander G. Weheliye
Tuesday, March 5th at 4 PM (EST)
Online via Zoom: bit.ly/BSAWMarch5
Join us for a special author talk with Professor Maurice Wallace on King’s Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Duke University Press, 2022) and Professor Alexander G. Weheliye on Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (Duke University Press, 2023), moderated by Professors Daphne A. Brooks and Brian Kane.
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The Black Feminist Folk Revolution: Odetta, Ella Jenkins and the Sound of Black History Resistance — A Conversation with Gayle Wald and Matthew Frye Jacobson
Friday, October 23, 2022
The Black Feminist Folk Revolution: Odetta, Ella Jenkins and the Sound of Black History Resistance
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Corrine Bailey Rae “Black Rainbows”
September 23, 2023
Corinne Bailey Rae — Black Rainbows
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Flowin’ — In Celebration of Farah Jasmine Griffin
September 23 and 24th, 2022
Flowin’ — Breakthroughs in Black Feminist Jazz and Literary Studies
In Celebration of Farah Jasmine Griffin
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A conversation with Tyehimba Jess
Friday, December 10 @ 12pm EST — Online Event Join us for a virtual conversation with celebrate poet Tyehimba Jess and Professors Daphne A. Brooks and Brian Kane. The author of Leadbelly and Olio, Jess has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Olio. Zoom link to be posted soon.
The Sometime of ‘Summertime’: Porgy and Bess at 85 & Gershwin Remixed
Friday, October 9
3PM-4PM EST
Join Professors Brian Kane and Daphne A. Brooks in conversation with Allison Chu (Dept. of Music) for a conversation and critical listening session to mark the 85th anniversary of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Together, we’ll examine the racial and gender complexities of this classic production, and we’ll trace the evolution and legacies of “Summertime,” the production’s most famous smash and a song that generations of Black artists (from Billie Holiday and Miles Davis to Nina Simone and Lena Horne, from Whitney Houston to Fantasia)–have translated in the midst of troubling times and transformed across the long Black freedom struggle. … Continue readingThe Sometime of ‘Summertime’: Porgy and Bess at 85 & Gershwin Remixed