#LeftofBlackSummer: Talking #BlackMusicMatters with Guthrie Ramsey, Jr. + Shana Redmond

#LeftofBlackSummer: Talking #BlackMusicMatters with Guthrie Ramsey, Jr. + Shana Redmond
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined via Skype by Shana Redmond—Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and Guthrie Ramsey, Jr.–Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
Neal and his guests discuss the role of Black music in  Black political struggles and current artists that are in conversation with multi-genre traditions of Black music. Redmond is the author Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora  (New York University Press, 2013) and Ramsey is now classic Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (University of California Press, 2003) + The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop (2013). 

Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University and in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE).
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