The third in our series celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Barbara T. Christian features two of her former students sharing their groundbreaking work on Black sound, Black archives and Black feminist thought.
With:
Dr. Daphne A. Brooks, The William R. Kenan, Jr. Prof Professor of African American Studies and Theater Studies, Yale University
Carter Mathes, Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University
Moderated by Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor at the Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley
About the event:
Daphne A. Brooks and Carter Mathes are scholars of African American and African Diasporic culture and aesthetics, especially attuned to the way the sonic--music, language and other sound-making practices--is an important if understudied component of Black history and Black life.
Brooks will discuss her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound which pioneers a long overdue recognition and celebration of Black woman musicians, from Bessie Smith to Aretha Franklin to Beyoncé as radical intellectuals. Mathes will present from his book in progress Ecologies of Funk, which examines formations of black radical thought in literature and music as they move between Jamaica and New Orleans during the second half of the twentieth-century.
