More Than the Promise
of the American Myth:
Rethinking Burleigh &
Sheppard in the
Second Gilded Age
March 3rd, 2019
May Room - Weill Terrace
Room, Carnegie Hall
9am - 3pm
The Harry
T. Burleigh
Society's first academic
conference considers
Burleigh's
and Sheppard's
impact on the concert
spiritual genre, the
historiographic limits of
composer biography,
Black art music
aesthetics,
and the liberatory
capabilities within the
work of Burleigh,
Sheppard, and their
contemporaries. Dr.
Daphne Brooks will deliver
the
keynote address.
Other speakers include Dr.
Louise Toppin, baritone
Kenneth Overton, Dr.
Crystal deGregory and
descendants of Burleigh
and
Sheppard.
Free and open to the
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