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Moderated by George Lewis
Nov 13 7:00pm In partnership with Apollo Theater--253 West 125th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (7th Ave.) and Frederick Douglass Blvd (8th Ave). |
From Sousa's marches to "Strange Fruit", music and civic life have have often been inextricably connected. Join the noted scholar, composer, and player George Lewis as leads a spirited discussion with Farah Jasmine Griffin, Professor, Columbia University; Ellie Hisama, Professor of Music, Columbia University; Ana Maria Ochoa, Director of Graduate Studies in Music, NYU ; Ned Sublette, Musician, co-founder of Qbadisc.
PARTICIPANTS
George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. He has served as music curator for the Kitchen in New York, and has collaborated in the "Interarts Inquiry" and "Integrative Studies Roundtable" at the Center for Black Music Research (Chicago). He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971 and was a 2002 MacArthur Fellow.
Farah Jasmine Griffin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Who Set You Flowin'?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford University Press, 1995). Her most recent book, If You Can't Be Free Be A Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday , was published in 2001 by the Free Press.
Ellie Hisama came to Columbia in 2006, having previously taught at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where she directed the Institute for Studies in American Music. She the author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon and co-editor of Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies.
Ana Mara Ochoa came to Columbia University in the fall of 2003, having previously worked as researcher at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History. She is currently editor of the Latin American branch of IASPM, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Ned Sublette studied Spanish Classical Guitar with Hector Garcia at the University of New Mexico and with Emilio Pujol in Spain and has performed his own music at the Kitchen in New York and in three New Music America festivals. His opera, inspired by the life of Simone Weil, has been performed in Australia. He has organized and directed two Radio Performance Projects and a Radio Production Workshop at KUNM -FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
APOLLO THEATER
Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has played a major role in the emergence of innovative musical genres including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul and hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr., James Brown, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, D'A ngelo, Lauryn Hill, and countless others began their road to stardom on the Apollo's stage. Based on its cultural significance and architecture, the Apollo Theater received state and city landmark designation in 1983 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Apollo Theater Foundation was established as a 501 © 3 not-for-profit corporation in 1991 and is dedicated to the preservation and development of the Apollo Theater. The historic venue hosts major concerts and special events and continues its tradition of discovering future stars with its weekly installment of Apollo Amateur Night every Wednesday night and with the syndicated television show, Showtime at the Apollo, which is taped at the theater and airs weekly in over 150 markets nationwide. Harlem is Manhattan's third most popular tourist destination and the Apollo remains Harlem's top attraction, drawing 1.3 million visitors annually. The world famous Apollo Theater, "where stars are born and legends are made" ™ is located in the heart of Harlem at 253 West 125 Street, between Adam Clayton Powell Blvd (7th Ave.) and Frederick Douglass Blvd (8th Ave.). For further information about the Apollo, visit www.apollotheater.com