"One of these mornings, you're gonna rise up singing': Black Women (Un)Doing Gersh.."

APR 26, 2013 | 2:00 PM

Details

WHERE:

The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue

ROOM:

C201

WHEN:

April 26, 2013: 2:00 PM

ADMISSION:

Free

Description

Daphne Brooks' (Princeton), "One of these mornings, you're gonna rise up singing': Black Women (Un)Doing Gershwinian Time"

Talk two of Mentoring Future Faculty of Color Project . This talk considers the ways in which a range of black women musicians--from jazz musicians and opera legends to pop divas and avant-garde experimentalists--have traversed the music of the Gershwins' folk opera Porgy and Bess, and it explores the ways that these artists have transformed this unlikely musical vehicle into black feminist temporal insurgencies.