Fall 2020

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Friday, October 23, 2022

The Black Feminist Folk Revolution: Odetta, Ella Jenkins and the Sound of Black History Resistance

A conversation with Gayle Wald and Matthew Frye Jacobson … Continue reading

Friday, October 9\ 3PM-4PM EST

Join Professors Brian Kane and Daphne A. Brooks in conversation with Allison Chu (Dept. of Music) for a conversation and critical listening session to mark the 85th anniversary of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Together, we’ll examine the racial and gender complexities of this classic production, and we’ll trace the evolution and legacies of “Summertime,” the production’s most famous smash and a song that generations of Black artists (from Billie Holiday and Miles Davis to Nina Simone and Lena Horne, from Whitney Houston to Fantasia)–have translated in the midst of troubling times and transformed across the long Black freedom struggle. … Continue reading

FRIDAY | OCTOBER 2 | 2PM-3PM (EST) Online

Join writer and professor Gustavus Stadler (Haverford) in conversation with BSAW Co-Directors Professor Daphne A. Brooks and Professor Brian Kane on Woody Guthrie, race, protest music, and Stadler’s forthcoming book, Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life (Beacon Press, 2020).\ … Continue reading