Antioch College
Yellow Springs, Ohio
Yellow Springs News
Yellow Springs, Ohio
“Relevance
and Resonance” and the Coretta Scott King Center will present Dr. Tammy
Kernodle, who will speak about “Langston Hughes and His Role in Shaping
the Political Consciousness of Black Women Artists-Activists in the
1960s” on Thursday, March 16, 7:30 p.m., at the Antioch College Foundry
Theater.
In the years following World War II, Langston Hughes emerged as one
of the central literary voices reflecting the emerging radical
consciousness of the Black community. From the 1950s until his death in
1967, he collaborated with a number of black women musicians, most
notably composer and pianist Margaret Bonds, folksinger Odetta and
singer and pianist Nina Simone. These collaborations were key in
advancing a type of black radical cultural expression that paralleled
the activism that defined the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This
presentation will discuss the collaborations Hughes engaged in with
these women and the social/cultural impact these works had on
bringing black political consciousness to the mainstream.
Tammy L. Kernodle is professor of musicology at Miami University in
Ohio. Her scholarship and teaching have stretched across many different
aspects of African-American music, but place an emphasis on the effects
that gender, sexuality and regional identity have had on the creation,
performance and reception of those musics. Her education includes a B.M.
in music education from Virginia State University and M.A. and Ph.D. in
music history/musicology from The Ohio State University. She served as
the Scholar in Residence for the Women in Jazz Initiative at the
American Jazz Museum in Kansas City from 1999 until 2001 and has worked
closely with a number of educational programs including the Kennedy
Center’s Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, Jazz@Lincoln Center
and NPR.
The March 16 program is the third program presented under the
framework of “Relevance and Resonance: A Langston Hughes Retrospective
with Yellow Springs Community Performing Artists,” a series of events
commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hughes’ 1967 death.
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