IRAAS Conversations presents
"Who Hears Here? : On Black Music, Pasts and Present"
with
Guthrie P. Ramsey
and
Shana L. Redmond
Wednesday , February 1 , 2023 - 6:00pm Est.
Location: Columbia University Faculty House
64 Morningside Drive , 2nd floor
NY, NY 10027
Registration Required
http://bit.ly/3kxATYm
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Speaker Bios
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is an award-winning music historian, author, pianist, and composer. He’s a widely published writer, and as a musician and label has released five recording projects, including A Spiritual Vibe, vol. He scored John Jackson’s and E. Patrick Johnson’s documentary Making Sweet Tea and co-curated the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment.
Shana L. Redmond is the author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2014) and Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke UP, 2020), which received a 2021 American Book Award. She has written for numerous publications including Black Music Research Journal, Race & Class, Brick: A Literary Journal, NPR, and BBC as well as album liner notes, most recently for Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (TUM, 2022). She is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia University and President of the American Studies Association (2022-2023).
