Tenth Annual Robert Kelley Memorial Lecture: Black Women, Black music & Politics of Protest in Civil Rights America
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5479 San Amaro Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Dr. Tammy Kernodle, Miami University of Ohio
The Frost School's Department of Musicology is proud to present the 10th Annual Robert Kelley Memorial Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr. Tammy Kernodle, Distinguished Professor of Music at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her talk, "Black Women, Black music & the Politics of Protest in Civil Rights America" will examine the role of black women composers and concert artists in creating forms of protest culture that aligned with the blossoming of the mid-century black civil rights struggle in America. Particular emphasis will be placed on the works of pianist/composer Margaret Bonds and her proximity to black women intellectual circles in New York during the late 1950s and early 1960s that were central to the advancement of a modern protest aesthetic that shaped the relationship that existed between the movement and music. About this year's speaker: Tammy L. Kernodle is a musician and scholar that teaches and researches in the areas of African American music (concert and popular music). Her work, which appears in numerous journals, encyclopedias, anthologies and documentaries, focuses primarily on the contributions of black women musicians to the progression of various genres of music including, but not limited to jazz, funk, blues, gospel, and concert music. Kernodle is the author of biography Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams and served as Associate Editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American. She is the immediate Past President of the Society for American Music.
FRI / FEB 3, 2023 / 5:00 P.M.
Clarke Recital Hall
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