Virtual Colloquium Series: BLACK SOUNDS MATTER—INTERSECTIONAL (re)CONNECTIONS OF AFRICAN and AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICS AT WESLEYAN

Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 4:30pm
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FREE! Reservations required.

Eric Charry
Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
African American Music Downtown: From Willie “The Lion” Smith to Sun Ra

Marvin McNeill
Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University
Playing for the Village: Music, Community, and the Black New Orleans Brass Band Tradition

Moderated by Professor of Music Jay Hoggard.

 

PROFILES 

Eric Charry’s books include Mande Music (University of Chicago Press, 2000), Hip Hop Africa (Indiana University Press, 2012), and A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B (Wesleyan University Press, 2020). He is currently completing a manuscript on Music and Downtown New York.

Marvin McNeill is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. After serving 20 years as a collegiate band director—most recently serving for sixteen years as the Associate Director and Chief Arranger for the “Pride of Connecticut,” the University of Connecticut Marching Band—McNeill returned to school as a student to pursue and expand upon personal scholarly interests and passions. His research interests include African American folk and popular music traditions with special attention on Black New Orleans brass band and HBCU [Historically Black College and University] marching band history, culture, and traditions. Additional research interests include youth culture studies; community and social bonding studies; and affect theory. McNeill is the founding member of The Funky Dawgz Brass Band, a New Orleans style brass band that has toured nationally and internationally. This research project is supported by a 2021 Global South Fellowship awarded by the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University.

 

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