Thursday, December 20, 2007

CBMR Conference, Session 4: Music in the Black Diaspora of the Northern United States


The Center for Black Music Research of Columbia College Chicago, CBMR.org, has announced its
National Conference on Black Music Research, February 14-17, 2008 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. Session 4, 10:15–11:45 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15 will be:

Music in the Black Diaspora of the Northern United States: Theory and Practice
Moderator to be announced

Jayna Jennifer Brown (University of California, Riverside), "Ancestry in Progress": Cyberspace, Transdiaspora, and Global Pop Music

David Stowe (Michigan State University), Toward Defining a Northern U.S. Black Diaspora through Formal Elements of the Music

Gayle Wald (The George Washington University), Up North: Placing Gospel Music

The complete Conference Program is available at: http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/conference2008/index.php

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