Events will be added and updated as they are further finalized. Please check back periodically.
Spring 2023 Semester
Thursday, January 26, 5pm: Zoom
Michael Abels in Conversation
Monday, February 20, 8pm: Baldwin Auditorium
Rhiannon Giddens in Conversation with Professor Anthony Kelley
Fall 2022 Semester
Friday, September 23, 4pm: Biddle 104
This Music is Black Music: Mary Lou Williams and the Identity Politics of Jazz in Black Power-Era America
Thursday, October 20, 5pm: Biddle 104
Black Vocal Music Panel with Louise Toppin and Dr. Lenora Helm Hammonds
Saturday, October 22, 8pm: Nelson Music Room
A Century of Black Song: Louise Toppin, Soprano
Events from Past Semesters
Spring 2022 Semester
Tuesday, January 25
Virtual Black Composer Roundtable
Tuesday, February 15, 7 p.m.
Listening to Black Music: Black Music and the Practice of Improvisation
Wednesday, February 23-Friday, February 25 (POSTPONED)
Series of events with Professor Daphne Brooks
Wednesday, March 2-Friday, March 4
Series of events with Professor Naomi André
Saturday, March 5
Performance of Anthony Kelley’s Crosscurrents by the North Carolina Symphony
Tuesday, March 22, 7 p.m.
Listening to Black Music: Black Music Production and Technology
Tuesday, April 5, 7 p.m.
Listening to Black Music: Black Music and the Arts
Tuesday, April 19, 7 p.m.
Listening to Black Music: Black Music-Making and the Utilization of Musical Instruments
Fall 2021 Semester
Thursday, September 2, 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.
La gozadera: Music/ Dance/ Emotion
Tuesday, September 7, 7 p.m.
Listening to Black Music: Soundtracks to Black Media and Life
Sunday, September 12, 7 p.m.
Imani Winds Performance
Wednesday, September 16, Noon (POSTPONED)
Techniques and Themes of Blackness in Chamber Music Performance: A Conversation with the Imani Winds
Friday, September 17, 4 p.m.
Global Black Sound-Objects: Collection, Reclamation, and the Racial Politics of Ownership
Thursday, September 30, 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.
La gozadera: Music/ Dance/ Emotion
Tuesday, October 12, 7 p.m.
Listening to Black Music: Black Eroticism in Music
Wednesday, October 20, 12:00pm
Lunchtime Colloquium: Teaching the Antebellum Spiritual
Thursday, October 21, 5:00pm
On Performing Black Vocal Music: A Panel Discussion
Friday, October 22, 8 p.m.
Concert: “On the Persistence of the Spiritual in Black Music”
Tuesday, November 2, 7 p.m.
Listening to Black Music: Mary Lou and the Black Cosmology in Music
Friday, November 5, 1 p.m.
Celebrating Mary Lou Williams: a Conversation with Chris Pattishall
Friday, November 5, 6:00 p.m. (CANCELED)
Celebrating Mary Lou Williams: Tammy Kernodle Lecture and book signing
Friday, November 5, 8 p.m.
Celebrating Mary Lou Williams: Chris Pattishall Performance of Zodiac Suite
Saturday, November 6, 8 p.m.
Celebrating Mary Lou Williams: Chris Pattishall Performance of Zodiac Suite
Thursday, November 18, 7 p.m.
Bradley Simmons’s MUSIC 104 Djembe Class: Working Group Visit
