{"id":825,"date":"2014-01-28T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/?page_id=825"},"modified":"2014-03-20T00:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T04:23:21","slug":"day-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/afammusicworldculture\/schedule-of-events\/day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, March 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
African-American Music in World Culture:<\/strong>
\nArt as Refuge and Strength in the Struggle for Freedom<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE at Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thursday, March 20, Conference Day 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:30-9:00 AM<\/td>\nRegistration<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:40-8:50 AM<\/td>\nOpening Remarks<\/td>\nAllison Blakely<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:50-9:00 AM<\/td>\nWelcome to Boston University<\/td>\nVirginia Sapiro, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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9:00-11:15 AM<\/td>\nSession 1: “A Rock In A Weary Land” – Negro Spirituals: Folk Art to the Concert Stage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00- 9:45 AM<\/td>\nLecture\/Recital-The Sound of Freedom: African American Expressions of Refuge, Strength, Struggle and Hope<\/td>\nEmmett Price \/ Leonard Brown \/ Eric Jackson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:45-10:05 AM<\/td>\nPaper – African American Music in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms: The Fisk Jubilee Singers in 19th-Century Germany<\/td>\nKira Thurman<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:05-10:40 AM<\/td>\nLecture\/Recital – Classically Black: Piano Compositions by Composers of African Descent<\/td>\nRichard Alston<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:40-11:00 AM<\/td>\nPaper – Over My Head, I Hear Music in the Air: The Strength and Song of the Slaves<\/td>\nGenithia Hogges<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00-11:15 AM<\/td>\nQ&A<\/td>\nModerator: Lori Hicks, Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera, Claflin University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11:15 AM-12:15 PM<\/td>\nKeynote Address-“I Woke Up This Morning…Are There Any Rights I’m Entitled To?”<\/span> <\/span><\/td>\nBernice Johnson Reagon<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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12:15-1:00 PM<\/td>\nLunch<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1:00-2:00 PM<\/td>\nKeynote Lecture Recital<\/td>\nJoshua Rifkin<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2:00-3:35 PM<\/td>\nSession 2: “I Got A Home In That Rock” – Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz: Musical Migrations<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:00-2:20 PM<\/td>\nPaper – Ecos de M\u00e9xico: Young Scott Joplin and His Secret Role Models<\/td>\nMarcello Piras<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:20-2:40 PM<\/td>\nPaper – Black women artists as organic intellectuals: a study of the role of blues women during the Great Migration<\/td>\nKeivan Djavadzadeh-Amini<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:40-3:00<\/td>\nPaper-Great exchanges at Chez Honey: Art, Jazz, and Herbert Gentry’s Parisian Club-Gallery<\/td>\nRachel Tolano<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:00-3:20<\/td>\nPaper-Ella Fitzgerald, Berlin, 1968: The Art of Subversive Improvisation<\/td>\nJudith Tick<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:20-3:35 PM<\/td>\nQ&A<\/td>\nModerator: Victor Coelho, Professor of Music, Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3:35-3:45 PM<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3:45-5:20 PM<\/td>\nSession 3: “O Freedom Over Me” – Negro Spirituals: A New Slavery and New Freedom<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:45-4:20 PM<\/td>\nLecture\/Recital – “Hope for You”: New Spirituals Emerging from Modern Mass Incarceration<\/td>\nCatherine Roma<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:20-5:05 PM<\/td>\nPanel – Freedom is Coming: African-American Spirituals in Prison<\/td>\nEmily Howe\/ <\/a>
\nJamie Hillman\/ Andre De Quadros<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:05-5:20 PM<\/td>\nQ&A<\/td>\nModerator: Dr. Charles Terrell, Af-Am Studies Alumnus (’71)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Satellite Event<\/span><\/strong> at 5:30<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/td>\n<\/span>\u201cFamous Men of the Negro Race: African-American Literature and the Problem of Reconstruction\u201d <\/a>talk by <\/span><\/b>Amanda Claybaugh, Professor of English Harvard University<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nRoom CAS 200\u00a0 725 Commonwealth Avenue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:30-6:30 PM<\/td>\nDinner Break<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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7:30-9:00 PM<\/td>\nConcert<\/td>\nDee Dee Bridgewater & the BU Faculty\/Alumni Jazz Combo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n