“I’m Workin' on my Buildin'”: Sonic Foundation-building in Florence Price’s Violin Fantasy in F-sharp Minor (1949) Performers: Katharina Uhde and R. Larry Todd Lecture: 0:00 - 52:59 Recital: 53:00 - 1:04:59 Q&A: 1:05:00 - 1:16:46 Florence Price (1887-1953) was instrumental in establishing a “black musical [...]
Musical Minneapolis: An Online Tour "Musical Minneapolis: An Online Tour" is a virtual musical tour of the City of Minneapolis, featuring diverse voices from the community. It was originally written and recorded for the 2020 annual meetings of the Society for American Music (SAM) and [...]
Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Concert: Hog-Eyed Man & The Griddle Lickers Close out a day of Old Time Music at the Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Festival by joining us for a concert with Hog-Eyed Man and friends. Fiddler Jason Cade and multi-instrumentalist Rob […]
Teaching Vernacular Music Traditions of the Southeastern United States Vernacular music traditions are increasingly embraced by music departments, not only as objects of academic inquiry but as musical practices in which to immerse and train our students. While jazz has become nearly ubiquitous in higher [...]
Learning (With) Software: Listening to and Making Contemporary Recordings Contemporary music making in America is supported and constrained by recording software. Over the last two decades, digital tools like digital audio workstations (DAWs), plug-ins, which operate within existing software, and modelers, which "model" analog [...]
Gospel Music in Pittsburgh https://vimeo.com/821414483?share=copy In a tribute to Pittsburgh’s rich gospel-music history, the Alton Merrell Trio and the Heritage Gospel Chorale, under the direction of Herbert VRP Jones, will present the music of composer, arranger, and publisher Charles Henry Pace. With his wife Frankie, [...]
Rhiannon Giddens A Special Concert and Q&A Rhiannon Giddens–North Carolinian folk musician, MacArthur “Genius” Award Recipient, former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Grammy-award winner–comes to Davidson College for a special concert and Q&A. This event is sponsored in part by the “Many […]
Kansas City Jazz: An Online Tour In Kansas City, Missouri in the 1920s and 1930s, jazz musicians pioneered a new, more improvisational style of jazz. The evolution of Kansas City jazz was influenced and shaped by significant social and historical forces like the Great […]
Música y las misiones in South Texas The history of mission music in South Texas is as rich and diverse as the cultures that have lived and interacted here, from chant to mariachi masses. Join us for an introduction to that music by musicians who [...]
Seminole Legends and Songs Seminole Legends and Songs is a public event, co-organized with the Center for Music of the Americas (CMA) at Florida State University, that explores the musical and artistic traditions of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Seminole artist, Brian Zepeda will present [...]
