{"id":122,"date":"2013-12-10T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2014-01-15T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:23:59","slug":"felicia-miyakawa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/speakers\/felicia-miyakawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Felicia Miyakawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/12\/Felicia-Miyakawa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/12\/Felicia-Miyakawa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia Miyakawa\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-333 alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Felicia Miyakawa<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tennessee State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Felicia M. Miyakawa is an Associate Professor of Musicology and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Middle Tennessee State University School of Music, where she has taught courses in both art and popular music traditions since 2004. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Musicology from Indiana University and completed\u00a0B.A. degrees in both music and French at Linfield College (McMinnville, Oregon). Miyakawa\u2019s research areas include Hiphop music and culture, Black Nationalism, American Popular Music,\u00a0African American music and literature, Spirituals &amp; folk traditions,\u00a0gender &amp; pedagogy and queer studies. She has presented\u00a0papers at regional and national meetings of the American Musicological Society and Society for Ethnomusicology among others and is currently working on her second book, a biography of the spiritual &#8216;<em>Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk Title:\u00a0A Spiritual for All People: Diasporic Appropriations of &#8216;Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Late in life, composer Harry T. Burleigh expressed his conviction that spirituals were meant \u201c<em>not just for the colored people, but for all people<\/em>.\u201d This presentation explores how one spiritual, &#8216;<em>Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child&#8217;<\/em>, realizes Burleigh\u2019s vision in a variety of diasporic contexts.<\/p>\n<p>Two performances serve as case studies. The first is by Gaida &#8211; a German-born, Syrian raised, New York immigrant performer &#8211; who (with her ensemble of jazz combo plus oud) performed a maqam-inflected jazz version of <em>Motherless Child<\/em> at a World Music Celebration in September 2011 just months after Syria\u2019s Civil War began. The second comes from Israeli artist Shlomo Gronich from an album he recorded in 1993 with the Sheba youth choir, comprised of Ethiopian Jewish youth. The performers in these examples lay claim to <em>Motherless Child<\/em> as an expression of the loss, freedom and struggle endemic to the diasporic condition.<\/p>\n<p>WEB LINK:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/music\/faculty\/miyakawa.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/music\/faculty\/miyakawa.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicia Miyakawa Tennessee State University Felicia M. Miyakawa is an Associate Professor of Musicology and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Middle Tennessee State University School of Music, where she has taught courses in both art and popular music traditions since 2004. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Musicology from Indiana University and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3592,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/647"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}