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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.
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!
Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice
Return to the Center: Black Women, Jazz, and Jazz Education
Yale College Reunions
"Liner Notes for the Revolution: How to Write A Book About Black Women in Popular Music Culture While Nobody’s Looking”
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
"Revolutionary Arias: Four Saints in Three Acts, Porgy and Bess and the Sound of the Black Feminist Avant-Garde"
NYU Comparative Literature Department
2021 Major’s Choice Lecture:
“Liner Notes for Beyonce: Going to the Territory Five Years After Lemonade”
19th Annual Pop Conference
“Black Critics Matter” Panel with Wesley Morris, Danyel Smith, Greg Tate. Moderated by Daphne A. Brooks.
Yale University, Department of African American Studies
History of a Book symposium with Professor Elizabeth Hinton
Smith College Africana Studies Department
“Liner Notes for Beyonce: Going the Territory Five Years After Lemonade”
The Louis Armstrong Continuum Conference Columbia University
Online Panel Lecture: “On Time with Cecile McLorin Salvant"
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center, Brandeis University
"‘Scratching the Celluloid’: Sonic Plotting & Planning While Facing the 21st Century Catastrophe"
New Literary History Forum
In conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin and Jack Hamilton, with Deborah E. McDowell facilitating. The event is free and open to the public via Zoom webinar.
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center, Brandeis University
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch Symposium
4:00pm - 6:00pm: "Solidarity in Sound: Grassroots Arrangements & Civil Rights Transformations"
Labyrinth Books, Princeton, NJ
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound—
A Reading & Conversation with Tracy K. Smith
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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Skylight Bookstore, Los Angeles
Daphne Brooks in conversation with Traci Thomas of The Stacks
University of Maine, Farmington The New Commons Project
Solange’s A Seat At the Table—An Online Keynote Lecture
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
Social Justice Power Hour with Daphne A. Brooks
Brown University, Pembroke Center
“Out of the Archives” Online Lecture Series presents
“Sort of Like An Archaeologist”: Exploring the Archives of a Blues Music Feminist
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound—An online reading & conversation with Ann Powers.
Yale University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Forum
Humanists in Thought: Celebrating Yale’s legacy of excellence and insights in moments of challenge.