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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

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Friday, October 23, 2022

The Black Feminist Folk Revolution: Odetta, Ella Jenkins and the Sound of Black History Resistance

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A conversation with Tyehimba Jess

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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

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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

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Woody Guthrie, Race, and the Politics of Protest Music — A Conversation with Gustavus Stadler

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FRIDAY | OCTOBER 2 | 2PM-3PM (EST) Online

Join writer and professor Gustavus Stadler (Haverford) in conversation with BSAW Co-Directors Professor Daphne A. Brooks and Professor Brian Kane on Woody Guthrie, race, protest music, and Stadler’s forthcoming book, Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life (Beacon Press, 2020).
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Amazing Grace and BSAW Symposium

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Inaugural Black Sound & the Archive SymposiumFebruary 7-8 | Yale University Download the preliminary program Thursday, February 7, 7:30pm, Yale University Art Gallery AuditoriumOpening Keynote Event: Amazing Grace (1972) Screening of historic film documenting Aretha Franklin’s live concert recording of her legendary gospel album. Followed by a roundtable discussion with Robert Johnson (producer), Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University), Wesley Morris (New York Times), Aaron Cohen, (author of the celebrated 33 1/3 volume on the Amazing Grace album),

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BSAW Workshop with
Mendi + Keith Obadike

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Friday, December 7 10am-noon 469 College Street Stoeckel Hall Rm 106 Food and drink provided. Mendi + Keith Obadike are two of the most pathbreaking artists of their generation. They make art, music, and literature, and they have exhibited and performed at a range of venues including The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Bold, innovative, daring, and awe inspiring, their work explores,

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Mendi + Keith Obadike

An evening with RHIANNON GIDDENS
Tuesday, November 13 at Yale University

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Join us for an evening of critical listening with Grammy Award winning Roots Americana musician and MacArthur Fellow RHIANNON GIDDENS in conversation with BSAW co-directors Professor Daphne A. Brooks (African American Studies, Theater Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies) and Professor Brian Kane (Department of Music) Tuesday, November 13 Sudler Recital Hall Second Floor | W.L. Harkness Hall Yale University 100 Wall Street New Haven, CT 7pm Free and open to the public!

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Tuesday, November 13 at Yale University