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Duke students are invited to join the five performers of The Rosetta Circle, presented by Duke Performances, for an open rehearsal and Q&A. These leading female voices in American music – Adia Victoria, Rissi Palmer, Shirlette Ammons, Shana Tucker and Tift Merritt – are working on a revolutionary new project meant to continue the work and spirit of pioneering feminist jazz historian Rosetta Reitz. This performance pilot will provide an intimate glimpse into an ambitious project in its early stages.

Daphne Brooks. (Photo by Mara Lavitt) Inspired by the liner notes that accompany vinyl records, which started as places for advertising and became “potent places for experimentation and critique,” Daphne Brooks places her own book between genres. Liner Notes for the Revolution is at once a “counterhistory of popular music criticism,” archival scholarship on the lost and under-remembered figures of Black women’s music-making, and a manual for how to listen to music in a way that understands singing itself as culture work and intellectual labor. Frankfurt School thinkers make freque...

February 24, 2021 If there were any critic or collector who would have been an especially passionate steward of Zora Neale Hurston’s historic recordings, it probably would have been the Jewish feminist activist, intellectual, and entrepreneur Rosetta Reitz (pronounced “rights”). The dynamic Reitz who proudly wore both such hats throughout her trailblazing career would have likely gone to great lengths to care for, study, protect, and preserve Hurston’s sound scholarship. But Reitz’s voluminous archive surprisingly shows little trace of Hurston’s labors. Her absence from the femini...