{"id":5,"date":"2013-05-23T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/home\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:56:02","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/05\/Poster_20142702.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1183\" alt=\"Poster_20142702\" src=\"\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/05\/Poster_20142702-449x636.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/05\/Poster_20142702-449x636.jpg 449w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/files\/2013\/05\/Poster_20142702-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers. (1934) Painting by Aaron Douglas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<strong>\u201cAfrican-American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>and Strength in the Struggle for Freedom\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photos have been added for the music conference. Follow this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124872284@N06\/sets\/\">link<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/\"><strong>Boston University African American Studies Program<\/strong><\/a> hosted an international scholarly conference on<em> \u201cAfrican-American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge and Strength in the Struggle for Freedom\u201d<\/em> from <strong>March 20th to 22nd, 2014,<\/strong>\u00a0preceded by\u00a0film screenings on <strong>March 17th and 18th<\/strong> and a curator talk at the\u00a0BU Art Gallery\u00a0on the\u00a0<strong>19th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our BU Co-sponsors and Collaborators: BU Arts Initiative,\u00a0College of Arts and Sciences, BU Center for the Humanities, College of Fine Arts, African Studies Center, African American Studies, Office of the Provost, Department of History, New England and American Studies Program, the School of Music, College of Communication, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/faculty\/allison-blakely\/\">-Allison Blakely<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers. (1934) Painting by Aaron Douglas \u00a0\u201cAfrican-American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge and Strength in the Struggle for Freedom\u201d Photos have been added for the music conference. Follow this\u00a0link The Boston University African American Studies Program hosted an international scholarly conference on \u201cAfrican-American Music in World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}