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December 7, 2018: 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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Novemebr 13, 2018: An evening with Rhiannon Giddens

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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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October 4, 2018: An Evening with Kevin Beasley

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Kevin Beasley (b. 1985 Lynchburg) is a New York-based artist whose work and performances have been shown internationally. His practice engages history and cultural nuance through diverse media, including sculpture, sound and performance. Since 2012, these works have been developed as process-lead explorations in which materials, audio and residue are altered, cast, distorted and rebuilt. Specifically, his approach to sound ruptures the auditory, implicating the body. As Thomas Lax writes in Artforum, “Beasley’s absenting presence—presence

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September 13, 2018: BSAW Year 2 Inaugural Meeting

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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

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April 13, 2018: End of Year Exhibition

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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

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April 12, 2018: Jason Moran

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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)

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March 1–2, 2018: Roshanak Kheshti Lecture and Workshop

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  Public Talk | “We See With The Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics” THURSDAY, MARCH 1 5:00PM WLH 309 | 100 WALL STREET NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT _________________________________ Workshop | “Cat Face on Bleeding Pine” FRIDAY, MARCH 2 10:00AM STOECKEL 106 | 469 COLLEGE STREET NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and affiliate faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program at UC San Diego. Her first book Modernity’s Ear: Listening

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February 8–9, 2018: Alexandra T. Vazquez Lecture and Workshop

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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
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