This is everything to look out for in the world of jazz in 2024
The writer and broadcaster Deb Grant on the jazz recordings, live shows, documentaries and books to look forward to in the year ahead,
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The writer and broadcaster Deb Grant on the jazz recordings, live shows, documentaries and books to look forward to in the year ahead,
Presenters from around the world gathered at Louis Hall Friday and Saturday for a symposium on contemporary African music. Titled “Afrobeats: Lower Frequencies of Contemporary African Sounds,” the symposium included a series of presentations on Afrobeats, a pop and dance music style largely credited to West African artists primarily in Nigeria and Ghana. Afrobeats music...
The Department of African American Studies celebrated its renaming to Black Studies in a Friday symposium titled “Black to Front.” In April 2008, the department voted unanimously to change its name. According to the formal name change proposal, the new title aims to better reflect “the breadth of its scholarship and teaching” by expanding beyond...