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U
of M Will Host African-American Arts Festival April 13-17
For
release: Mar. 22, 2004
For press information, contact
Gabrielle Maxey
A
celebration of art, music, literature, and film will be on
tap at the African-American Arts Festival April 13-17 at the
University of Memphis. All events are free and open to the
public.
The
festival will open with a lecture by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby
entitled "The Commodification of Gospel Music and its
Transformation into Popular Song." Her talk will begin
at 4 p.m. April 13 in the Mitchell Hall Auditorium.
Maultsby
is professor of ethnomusicology at Indiana University, as
well as director of the Archives of African-American Music
and Culture, adjunct faculty in the School of Music and affiliated
faculty in African Studies and American Studies. Her research
centers on black religious and popular music, their relationship
to each other and to African traditions.
Other
events include:
Tuesday,
April 13
- Concert
by the University of Memphis Gospel Choir, 7:30 p.m., Michael
D. Rose Theatre
Wednesday
April 14
- Panel
discussion "Memphis on the Mississippi: Artists and
Writers Interpret the African-American Experience in the
Mississippi Delta," 4 p.m., Mitchell Hall Auditorium.
Panelists include Verner D. Mitchell, chair; Arthur D. Flowers,
author of De Mojo Blues and Another Good Loving Blues; and
artists Philip Dotson and Higgins Bond.
- Lecture
"African Carryovers, Biblical Reinterpretation and
Double Meaning in African-American Self-Taught Art"
by Dr. Babatunde Lawal; reception at 6:30 p.m., lecture
at 7 p.m., Fogelman Executive Center, Room 219. Lawal is
professor of African, African-American, and Diaspora Art
at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Thursday,
April 15
- Lecture
"Black Film, White Money" by Dr. Jesse Rhines,
professor of African-American/African Studies at Rutgers
University, 7 p.m., Rose Theatre
Friday,
April 16, & Saturday, April 17
- African
and African-American Film Marathon, 1 p.m. Friday through
1 p.m. Saturday, University Center Ballroom
The
festival is sponsored by the University's African and African-American
Studies Program. For details about events listed above, call
901-678-3550. A complete list of events is available online
at cas.memphis.edu/isc/aaas.
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