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!
… Continue readingMarch 29th @ 10:30 AM: BSAW Brunch & Research Meeting
BSAW is back! Following on the events of last year, we are planning another year of meetings, workshops, and public events with some of the great luminaries of black sound studies in the arts and the humanities. Visit our calendar for dates and times of upcoming meetings and events. We encourage you to reach out to your colleagues and graduate student cohorts and spread the word to anyone that might be interested in joining the
Continue readingBSAW Year 2Inaugural Meeting
Thursday, Sept. 13 5 – 6:30 PM, 106 Stoeckel
The first meeting of the Spring semester will be held on Friday, January 26, from 10 AM -12 noon in our usual location (106 Stoeckel). Our goal for this meeting is to further discuss your ideas for the end-of-semester exhibition and to check in on your progress. If you haven’t already done so, please do some thinking and research into your potential “sound archives” before the meeting. We will also be discussing upcoming events for the semester and
Continue readingFirst Meeting of Spring 2018Friday, January 26
The final meeting of the semester will be held on Friday, December 8, from 10 AM -12 noon in our usual location (106 Stoeckel). Please bring your questions, thoughts, and comments on anything and everything we’ve done, read, seen, heard, and discussed this semester. This is a meeting for all of us to talk about the ongoing and future direction of the working group, and generate ideas for next semester’s exhibition. We are looking forward to
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 readingBrent Hayes EdwardsLecture and WorkshopNov. 30 – Dec. 1
Friday, October 20, 10 AM – 12 PM in 107 Stoeckel Hall For the fourth session of Black Sound and the Archive we will be joined by the pianist and scholar John Davis. John’s work on African American musicians and composers, especially his work on Blind Tom, have opened up new archives for scholarly study and historically informed performance. To prepare for his visit, here is a pdf of “Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues,”
Continue readingFourth Session — John Davis — Friday, October 20
The third session of Black Sound and the Archive will meet on Friday, October 13th, 10 AM – NOON, in Beinecke Room 38-89. We will be meeting with four archivists from various collections at Yale to discuss issues pertaining to archival work on black sonic practices. The archivists are: Mark Bailey (Historical Sound Recordings), Melissa Barton (Beinecke), Emily DeLio (Gilmore Music Library), Libby Van Cleeve (Oral History of American Music). We are delighted to have them
Continue readingThird Session — Yale Archivists — Friday, October 13
The second session of Black Sound and the Archive will meet on Friday, Sept. 22nd, from 10 AM – 12 PM in 106 Stoeckel. The meeting will be focused on theory and methods of working with the black sound archive. Daphne Brooks and Brian Kane will discuss their own work as case studies. Readings for the session are linked below: Diana Taylor (The Archive and the Repertoire ch 1) Kara Keeling, Looking for M Paul
Continue readingSecond Session – Theory and Methods – Friday, Sept. 22
