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)
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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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
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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 readingJanuary 26, 2018: First BSAW Meeting of Spring 2018
