Music Race Empire: A Symposium
April 28-30, 2011
Keynote presentations by
- Kofi Agawu (Princeton University)
- Michael Denning (Yale University)
What is the role of music in the production of race, and what is the impact of race in the transnational production, circulation, and consumption of musical practices? This event assembles a diverse group of scholars who are interested in these questions and who seek a critical intervention in the study of global music cultures.
Music-Race-Empire: A Symposium will run as a series of workshop sessions during which scholars will present their current projects that explore the connections between music, race, and empire. Workshop sessions will be held on April 29th and 30th in Ingraham 206. Interested faculty, staff, and students are welcome to join in these discussions.
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RECENT EVENTS
April 6, 2011 @ 3:30pm
Mamadou Diawara
"Music, Empire and Norms in African Context"
206 Ingraham Hall
Mamadou Diawara will interrogate the story of American Blues and its putative African roots through the music of the late Malian “Bluesman” Ali Farka Touré, whose impressive discography and two Grammy Awards have made him an icon in American circles. He will discuss the trajectory of oral music in Africa and the struggle it must now carry on against the written word in the cultural context that first generated it.