Category: Past

April 10, 2024: Brian Kane on Sound Archives, Robert F. Williams, and Al Hibbler

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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.

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March 5, 2024: A Conversation with Maurice Wallace and Alexander G. Weheliye

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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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October 23, 2020: 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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October 9, 2020: 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 readingOctober 9, 2020: The Sometime of ‘Summertime’: Porgy and Bess at 85 & Gershwin Remixed

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October 2, 2020: 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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February 7-8, 2019: 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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