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March 24, 2012
Time:5-6:30 p.m.
Description:
Musical diasporas in the U.S. are topic of talk
The Center for American Music presents Harvard University Quincy Jones professor of African American Music Ingrid Monson, giving a talk titled "Musical Diasporas in the U.S.: R&B, Jazz and the Changing Same."

Monson specializes in jazz, African American music and music of the African diaspora. She is author of "Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction," winner of the Sonneck Society's Irving Lowens award for Best Book published on American Music in 1996. Her most recent work is on "Freedom Sounds: Jazz, Civil Rights, and Africa, 1950-1967" (2005).
Location:Art Building (ART) 1.102
Contact:Kevin D Crook | 512-232-7135
Sponsor:Center For American Music; presented by the Butler School of Music in collaboration with the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies
Admission:Free
Parking:San Jacinto Garage
Categories:Everyone, Lecture/talk
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