Friday, March 21st
African-American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge and Strength in the Struggle for Freedom |
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AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE at Boston University |
Friday, March 21 , Conference Day 2 | ||
8:30-9:00 AM | Registration | |
8:50-9:00 AM | Opening Remarks | Allison Blakely |
9:00-10:35 AM | Session 4: “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen” – Jazz: Of Our Spiritual Strivings | |
9:00-9:20 AM | Paper – On Movements, Moments, and Cultural Emblems in Works by African-American Composers | Horace Maxile |
9:20-9:40 AM | Paper – 75 Years of “Strange Fruit”: Metaphor and the Long Civil Rights Movement | Katherine Turner |
9:40-10:00 AM | Paper – “Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam!”: Linking Nina Simone’s Activism and Inclusion in the Jazz Community | Heather Anderson |
10:00-10:20 AM | Paper – Suffering, Levinas, and Modern Jazz: The Liturgical Music of Mary Lou Williams | Christopher Capizzi |
10:20-10:35 AM | Q&A | Moderator: Dr. Laura Keith, Assistant Professor of Music, Claflin University |
11:00-1:00 PM | Master Class w/ Dee Dee Bridgewater | |
10:35 AM-12:10 PM | Session 5: “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” – Jazz: Streams of Consciousness | |
10:35-10:55 AM | Paper – The African Drum in the Jazz Age: Metaphor and Nostalgia in Early Twentieth Century Black Culture | Chris Johnson |
10:55-11:15 AM | Paper – The New Thing & The Blue Thing: Free Improvisation and the Jazz Avant-Garde Reconsidered | Kwami Coleman |
11:15-11:35 AM | Paper – Tradition and Resistance: Wadada Leo Smith and the Liberation Politics of Creative “Classicism” | Marc Medwin |
11:55 AM-12:10 PM | Q&A | Moderator: Dr. Laura Keith, Assistant Professor of Music, Claflin University |
12:10-12:50 PM | Lunch | |
12:50-1:50 PM | Keynote Address | George Wein |
1:50-2:00 PM | Break | |
2:00-2:55 PM | Session 6: “My Home Is Over Jordan” – African Sounds, American Identities: African Continental Streams of Influence in the Music of the African Diaspora | |
2:00-2:20 PM | Paper – “Negroes Sing Their Pain”: Arsenio Rodríguez and the Afro-Latin Presence in the United States during the Black Power Movement | David Garcia |
2:20-2:40 PM | Paper – A World Culture in African-American Music: the Struggle for Identity in the Ugandan Diaspora | Peter Hoesing |
2:40-2:55 PM | Q&A | Moderator: Patricia Tang, Associate Professor of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2:55-3:05 PM | Break | |
3:05-5:10 PM | Session 7: “Wasn’t That A Wide River” – European Concert Music: From The New World | |
3:05-3:40 PM | Lecture/Recital – Visions into the Past: A Comparative Analysis of Lisztian and Schubertian Influences in William Grant Still’s “Three Visions” | Sujung Cho |
3:40-4:00 PM | Paper – The Deep Satisfaction of having Discovered a New World: William Dawson in Spain | Gwynne Kuhner Brown |
4:00-4:20 PM | Paper – Forgotten Legacies of Haitian Classical Music: Pianist-Composer Carmen Brouard and Her Symphonic Poem “Baron la Croix” | Rebecca Dirksen |
4:20-4:55 PM | Lecture/Recital – Exploring South Carolina African American Composers’ Classical Music | Eunjung Choi/ Laura Keith/ Lori Hicks |
4:55-5:10 PM | Q&A | Moderator: Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University |
5:15 -5:45 PM | Vocal Performances-Spirituals | Lori Hicks, Jonathan Blanchard, with an Introduction by Joshua Rifkin |
6:30-9:00 PM | Dinner with African Studies at SMG 9th floor | |
- All events are free and open to the public. We request that you register here for each session.
- All events are at BU Photonics Center, 8 St Marys St, Boston, MA 02215 unless otherwise noted.