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SUMMARY:Unmasking Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in American Popular C
 ulture
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Music Department announces a new library exhib
 it, Unmasking Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in American Popular Cultu
 re, examining the painful racist history and complex legacy of blackfa
 ce performance in American culture. The exhibit will be on display Jan
 uary 26 through May 8, 2015 on the second floor of the Eda Kuhn Loeb M
 usic Library. Included in the exhibit are images, sheet music, songste
 rs, and other minstrel show artifacts from the Harvard Theater Collect
 ion, which houses one of the most important collections of 19th centur
 y minstrelsy materials in the world.  An opening symposium will launch
  the exhibit on January 26, 2015 at 4:30 PM in the Spalding Room of th
 e Music Library. Carol J. Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
  and Samuel Parler, Ph.D. Candidate in Music, will offer introductory 
 remarks, followed by a keynote address from Louis Chude-Sokei, Associa
 te Professor of English at the University of Washington and author of 
 The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and th
 e African Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2006).  The symposium will
  conclude with a performance by Rhiannon Giddens, banjoist and singer 
 of the Grammy Award-winning folk trio The Carolina Chocolate Drops. Bo
 th the symposium and exhibit are free and open to the public.  The exh
 ibit is curated by students from the seminar “Blackface Minstrelsy i
 n 19th Century America,” taught by Oja and Parler during the fall se
 mester. The artifacts of 19th-century minstrelsy include materials wit
 h toxic racial images and powerful, culturally ingrained musical texts
 . The historical impact of both the images and the music has been huge
 , and the goal of this project has been to engage students in a conver
 sation about this important aspect of American racial history. The mat
 erials displayed document minstrelsy’s wide geographic and chronolog
 ical span. Topics include the careers of composer-performers Thomas Da
 rtmouth Rice (of European-American heritage) and James Bland (of Afric
 an-American heritage); minstrel performance in America’s western fro
 ntier; black perspectives on blackface; and minstrelsy’s legacy in t
 he 20th and 21st centuries.   The exhibit is supported by grants from 
 the Elson Family Arts Initiative Fund and the Provostial Fund for the 
 Arts and Humanities.\n\nFor more information visit https://minstrelban
 jo.ning.com/events/unmasking-jim-crow-blackface-minstrelsy-in-american
 -popular
DTSTART;TZID=America/Atikokan:20150126T163000
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CATEGORIES:"symposium/exhibition"
LOCATION:Loeb Music Library, Music Building
WEBSITE:http://music.fas.harvard.edu/news.html#minstrelsy
URL:http://music.fas.harvard.edu/news.html#minstrelsy
CONTACT:617-495-2794
ORGANIZER:Students from the seminar “Blackface Minstrelsy in 19th Ce
 ntury America,” taught by Oja and Parler during the fall semester
ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Paul Sed
 gwick":https://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/PaulSedgwick
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Rhiannon
  Giddens":https://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/RhiannonGiddens
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="James Ha
 rtel":https://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/JamesHartel
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Leonida
 s (Lee) Jones":https://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/LeonidasJones
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Christo
 pher Stetson":https://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/ChristopherSteson
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