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Session 1: What is African American Music and How Does It Mean?

During the next few weeks I’ll be posting about the course I’m teaching on African American music.  Designed as a survey, it will trace developments from slavery to the present for a mix of music majors and non-majors.  The course begins with some philosophical issues about black music making in the United...

By Dr. Guthrie /  September 16, 2012
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Welcome to Club 54: Reflections on Getting It On While Getting On

Lately I’m experiencing a lot of great energy from many directions although sometimes peppered with “processing thoughts” about getting older and becoming a “man of a certain age.”  My 37-year-old nephew commented recently, “Unk, it just seems like you’re having a great time with your...

By Dr. Guthrie /  August 7, 2012
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Cultural Arts Immersion in the Era of Stop and Frisk

This past weekend I spent time with the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Washington DC’s TAP (Teen Arts Performance Camp).  The two-week, overnight program, which is in its fifth year, provided over forty children and teens the opportunity to get exposure to visual arts, dance, music and drama through...

By Dr. Guthrie /  July 15, 2012
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C.P. Time #2—Mistress of Ceremony: Twinkie Clark’s Riff, Ritual and Rhetoric

For Rev. Leslie Callahan, scholar, teacher, preacher Part 1. For those of you familiar with the pageantry of charismatic African American churches, you might recognize that the clip of video I’ll discuss over the next couple of postings was probably recorded on December 31, 1997.  Black Pentecostalism...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 8, 2012
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Whitney @ 48: T’aint No Easy Thing To Do

Perfect vibrato. (Deceivingly) effortless diaphragmic support. Excellent way of “crowding” the cadences with “just enough” sonic information before landing coyly in the next structural part of the song. Widest of ranges: hardly ever “bailed out” by flipping into falsetto....

By Dr. Guthrie /  February 12, 2012
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It Ain’t Necessarily So and Ain’t That Peculiar? From Motor City to Catfish Row

Back in January 0f this year I wrote a piece about soprano Alicia Hall Moran’s Motown Project, her intriguing re-visiting of some of the label’s most memorable hits, interspersed with a few opera chestnuts and impressively staged in a performance/theater melodrama.  I wrote about the work in the context...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 29, 2011
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My LA Times: Pariah, The Front Page and Jason Moran

Landing in JFK and transitioning after a trip to Los Angeles, the land of big dreams and steady paradise, requires a little re-orientation.  A twenty-degree shift in temperature measured both in Fahrenheit and attitude—is always an unkind jolt.  But after a little pushing and shoving at baggage claim,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 19, 2011
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Index to Black Music Month Writings, 2011

During Black Music Month 2011 I published some thoughts on a range of historical topics spanning a couple of centuries of black music making in the United States. I began with a small June 1 post about trumpeter Roy Hargrove on my Facebook page. That exercise grew into a challenge to share something...

By Dr. Guthrie /  July 1, 2011
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On Yard Work, Public Musicology, and the Roots of Drastic Interpretation

It’s instructive to look back sometimes and try to understand the who, what, when, where, and how that got you here—and more interesting still to consider the “what is keeping me wherever here is.”  I think about it a lot. On planet musicology there are many divisions available to anyone invested...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 21, 2011
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Interstate-57, ML3556, and Drastic Interpretations: Where I’m Coming From

Part I Black Music Month, Day #15 I first discovered the ML3556 section of the library as an undergraduate and grew enamored of the literature about black music, a topic that truly charged me up academically.   Browsing the stacks became a favorite pastime as I read books by LeRoi Jones, Charlie Keil,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 15, 2011
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