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Oct
14

2021 MAAH Stone Book Virtual Award Event

Join the Museum of African American History and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, in partnership with the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate for the 2021 MAAH Stone Book Award Virtual Event.

Hosted by Callie Crossley, host of GBH’s Under the Radar, the event will feature a conversation with Dr. Daphne A. Brooks, the winner of the MAAH Stone Book Award for her book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. The event will also congratulate award finalists Dr. Dan Royles and Dr. Walter Johnson for their winning books and $10,000 prizes and include remarks by the jurors of the MAAH Stone Book Award and special guests.

The first 99 registrants of the program will receive a free copy of one of this year’s winning books and the first 200 registrants will received MAAH Stone Book Award gift boxes.

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Oct
7

Los Angeles Review of Books

SEMIPUBLIC INTELLECTUAL SESSIONS

From university classrooms, talk radio, and op-ed pages to Reddit, podcasts, Twitter, and more, sites of cultural conversation proliferate and grow ever more varied in scope, substance, and norms. What does it mean to cover culture or advocate change in this context? How has the emergence of so many new locations – and with them new critics and audiences – shaped, shattered, and meme-ified “the discourse”? Join the Los Angeles Review of Books for our inaugural Semipublic Intellection Session with cultural critics and writers Daphne Brooks (Liner Notes for the Revolution), Javier Cabral (L.A. Taco), Lili Loofbourow (Slate),Sarah Marshall (You’re Wrong About), and Jesse McCarthy (Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?) on Thursday, October 7 at 5pm/8pm (PT/ET) to find out!

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Mar
29

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Join the Schomburg for our annual Women's Jazz Festival during Women’s History Month, as we reimagined it for a virtual space to celebrate Black women in music. Throughout the month, we will explore with scholars, performers, and literary figures, the wide array of contributions by Black women to the music industry. Each program will begin with a musical performance then proceed into dynamic conversations with authors of some of the most exciting work on music today. #WJF2021

THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF BLACK FEMINIST SOUND

In Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, Daphne Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women in the recording studio and on stage.

Do we ever think of black women musicians as intellectuals? Do we ever think of them as innovating and curating repertoires that actively engage with the complexities of African American history and American history more broadly? Is there such a thing as black feminist music writing? Join us for a conversation with Dr. Brooks as she explores those answers in Liner Notes for the Revolution and a special performance by Firery String Sistas!, an ensemble committed to pushing the limits of string, ensemble playing, and improvisation to the next level.

This program will be streamed on Zoom and simulcast to Youtube. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. Please check your email shortly before the discussion to receive the link. Captions for this event will be provided.

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