2018 Global Black Music and Politics
10:00AM – 5:00PM | Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, Hitchcock Room
10:15am – 10:30am | Welcome and Introductory Remarks
10:30am – 12:00pm | Panel I: Foundations
- Stephen Stacks, UNC William and Ida Friday Center
- “Remembering the Movement: Freedom Song and the 1968 Lens”
- Perry Hall, Associate Professor, UNC AAAD Department
- “Roots of Hip Hop: The ‘Other Side of the Sixties’”
- Evan Rapport, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, The New School (NY) College of Liberal Arts
- “Black Musical Sources of American Punk, 1968–1975”
12:00pm – 1:00pm | Lunch Break
>Performance and Special Recognition of the UNC Black Student Movement and Professor Emeritus Townsend Ludington
1:30pm – 3:00pm | Panel II: Revolutions
- Kazadi wa Mukuna, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Kent State University School of Music
- “The Urban Music and Mobutu’s Politics of Cultural Revolution During the First Decade (1965-1975) of the Second Republic – Zaire”
- Jennifer Kyker, Associate Professor of Musicology, Rochester University Department of Music
- “Listening to Safirio Madzikatire: The Contested Legacy of a Pioneering Zimbabwean Popular Entertainer”
- Jean Kidula, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Georgia School of Music
- “1978: The Pivot to Kenya’s National Choral Explosion”
- Timothy Rommen, Professor of Music and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania Department of Africana Studies
- “Pay Me What you Owe Me”: Mobilizing Black Power in Dominica and the Bahamas“
3:30pm – 5:00pm | Panel III: Retrospectives
- David Pier, Associate Professor, UNC AAAD Department
- “Olly Wilson’s Electronic Elegy for Martin Luther King, Jr.”
- Tammy Kernodle, Professor of Musicology, Miami University Department of Music
- “Activism and Praise: Mary Lou Williams, the Jazz Mass, and the Promotion of a Black Catholic Liturgical Aesthetic”
- Dean S. Reynolds, City University of New York
- “Jazz and Politics in the Digital Age: Narratives of History, Contemporary Aesthetics, and “Cosmopolitan Blackness'”
6:00PM – 8:00PM | Kenan Music Building, Rm 1201 (Rehearsal Hall)
“Jazz Reflections on 1965-75, with The Greg Glassman/Dave Schnitter Quintet”
Greg Glassman, Trumpet
Dave Schnitter, Saxophone
Bryan Carrott, Vibraphone
Kenny Davis, Bass
Vince Ector, Drums