Tuesday, February 13, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 236
Event Type
Lecture
Department
Institutional Equity and Inclusion Office
Link
http://calendar.cortland.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=1676047
Black History Month Event: The Musical Expression of African American Lived Experience, Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 236, 1 to 2 p.m.
Presented by Dr. Lewis Rosengarten
This lecture will demonstrate how African American music and its characteristics are direct expressions of lived experience from enslavement to the present. This includes the banning of drums, coded messaging, Calk Walk mockery, Vaudevillian nightmare, and the authenticity of Rap.