“Celebrating Creative Music II: An Afrocentric Perspective”
Contact:
India Cooke
Mills College Music Department
510.430.2171
Email: indiac@mills.edu
http://www.mills.edu/academics/graduate/mus/
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The Mills College Music department presents the ninth annual lecture performance series, “PATTERNS: MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITION, A Lecture-Performance Series hosted by India Cooke and Mills College Music 170 - African American Music: The Meaning and The Message". This year’s symposium is titled “Celebrating Creative Music II : An Afrocentric Perspective”. It will consist of a panel discussion, musical performance, and audience participation. The emphasis of the discussion will be the social, cultural, political, and socioeconomic aspects of improvised music.
Panel will include:
Dr. David Bernstein…..Mills College Music Dept.
Melanie Berzon……….Program Director of KCSM AT 91.1FM
Greg Bridges, KCSM-FM, KPFA-FM
Dr. Karlton Hester.….. U.C. Santa Cruz, Jazz Studies, assoc. prof.
Roscoe Mitchell……....Mills College, Darius Milhaud Chair of Composition
Andrew Rosenthal…... New College media studies
Art Sato………….……. host of "In Your Ear" on KPFA
Angela Wellman……... Oakland Public Conservatory, founding director
The symposium is scheduled for Wednesday April 30th 8:00 p.m. on the Mills campus at Lisser Hall.
For more information call 510.430.2171
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Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
Cost: Free