Join us on Friday, April 13, in Sterling Memorial Library from 10 AM until 12 PM for a special end-of-year event. We are taking over the hallway between the Gilmore Music Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning for an exhibition of black sound archives, both real and virtual. On one side of the hall, the Black Sound and the Archive Working Group will be presenting an exhibition of web-based “sound archives,” curated by
Jason Moran is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of his generation. He has produced ten albums and six film soundtracks, including scores for Ava DuVernay’s Selma and 13th, as well as Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me: A Theatrical Performance which had its world premiere at the Apollo Theatre this month. Mr. Moran’s recent releases include The Armory Concert (2016), Thanksgiving at the Vanguard (2017), BANGS (2017), and MASS (Howl,; eon)
Join us for two exciting Black Sound & the Archive events with PROFESSOR ALEXANDRA T. VAZQUEZ (NYU). THURSDAY, February 8, 2018, 5 PM WLH 309 | 100 Wall St PUBLIC TALK “Adapted City: Miami from the Spoils” Abstract: Cities are vibrant archives of the sounds that move towards them and depart from them. Listen with Vazquez to the ways that musicians make songs to make home in Miami, Havana, and elsewhere. —- FRIDAY, February 9, 2018 10
Continue readingFebruary 8–9, 2018: Alexandra T. Vazquez Lecture and Workshop
Our next BSAW event will be focused around the work of Brent Hayes Edwards, who will be giving this year’s James Weldon Johnson lecture and holding a special workshop with our working group. Over the course of an illustrious career, Prof. Edwards has made significant contributions to the study of African-American and African diasporic literature, Francophone literature, 20th-century poetry, translation studies, black radical historiography, archive theory, and black music. The publication of his new book, Epistrophies: Jazz
Continue readingNovember 30–December 1, 2017: Brent Hayes Edwards Lecture and Workshop
Grammy award winning vocalist, Cécile McLorin Salvant, will be performing at Yale on December 1st, as part of the Ellington Jazz Series. (See this link for ticket information.) Ms. Salvant will be leading a workshop and conversation with Black Sound and the Archive on February 21st, 2018. Stay tuned for details! The Ellington Jazz Series is sponsored by the Yale School of Music. We’d like to thank the Tom Duffy, the artistic director, for his
