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Curator, Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University Special Collections
Hailing from New Orleans, Melissa A. Weber serves as curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a division of Tulane University Special Collections. She also teaches a History of Urban Music course in the College of Music and Media at Loyola University...
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MOSES SUMNEY: SHADES OF “GRAE”Moses Sumney’s 2020 album grae struggles over what it means to be “in-between,”" to be “multiple,” to experience one’s identity as “a kind of patchwork” – in short, what it means to not fit into any of the binaries that conventionally...
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MA candidate, English, George Washington University.
Odetta Sings Dylan and the Sonic Labor of Black Female MusiciansThis talk will explore the oft overshadowed role of black women artists in the protest archive by examining the artistic relationship between Odetta, often referred to as the voice of the civil rights movement, and Bob...
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PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Lil Chano From 79th: Voicing Black Boy Joy in the Music of Chance the RapperIn 2016, journalist Danielle Young coined the hashtag #BlackBoyJoy to describe Chance the Rapper’s creative output—in particular, the carefree Black boyhood he epitomizes through his music. As hashtags...
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Associate Professor of African American Literature and Culture at the University of Toledo.
Kimberly Mack is Associate Professor of African American Literature and Culture at the University of Toledo. She is the author of Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 College English...
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