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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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Breeze/Madness/Time: Notes on the Musical Semiotics of Summer

Black Music Month Day #29 Note: This is my final 2011 Black Music Month post.  Tomorrow, I will publish an index to the entire series. I hope you have enjoyed the writing and the music. Happy Summer!–GR Although the official calendar doesn’t agree, for most of us, July is the start of summer....

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 29, 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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Scoring Africa and the World: A Film by Tukufu Zuberi

Black Music Month, Day #17 Scoring film has been a goal of mine for a long time.  I routinely teach how music enhances the storyworld of a film and how viewers have been socialized to internalize and unconsciously respond to these musical codes.  Hip-hop films and their soundtracks, for example, constitute...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 17, 2011
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To The Left: Ramsey on Music, Museums, and Keepin’ Up with the Joneses

Black Music Month, Day #16 Today’s posting is a video of my appearance on Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal’s program, Left of Black.  We’ve all witnessed interviews in which it’s clear that the show’s producers and not the host prepared for show.  Not so here. We chopped...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 16, 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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Tales of the Real Village People: Or How She Became Kellie Jones

Things to See, Hear, and Read in ’11, Part 3 This spring Duke University Press (together with its admirable “editor’s editor,” Ken Wissoker) will release Kellie Jones’ much anticipated collected essays, and folk outside of the close-knit contemporary “fine art” world will...

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 23, 2011
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The Ivory Queens’ Glass Ceilings: Tributes to Trudy Pitts and Teena Marie

The recent passing of Philly-based pianist and organist Trudy Pitts and pop/funk diva Teena Marie stunned their fans and encouraged reflection.  At first glance, one might ask what could these artists have in common?  Yet each has been noted for how they used their musical talents to break through...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 29, 2010
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Four Nights, Five Sets, and a Long Blog: Ramsey Hits the Town

Last week was not only my time to wind up my fall classes. (Yes!)  It was also a great time to get out on the town and enjoy an eclectic mix of wintertime musicking in Philly.  Although one hears many laments about what the music scene here (and everywhere, it seems) lacks, if you’re persistent […]

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 15, 2010
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Dr. Guy Ramsey’s “Someone Is Listening” to be performed @ UPenn’s MLK Jr. Lecture in Social Justice given by NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous on Jan. 22

WHAT: 9th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice WHERE: Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St. WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 22 Inaugurated in 2002, the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice is an annual event that honors individuals...

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 21, 2010
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