Senegalese Music & Agency in Afro-Atlantic Cultures, w/ Dr. Timothy Mangin

Dr. Timothy Mangin will draw connections between Senegalese and New Orleans music and cultural practices.

Jazz Generations Initiative New Orleans, in partnership with the Tulane School of Liberal Arts and the Newcomb Department of  Music invites you to join us for Mbalax Cosmopolitanism: Senegalese Music and Agency in Afro-Atlantic Cultures,  Dr. Timothy Mangin’s culminating JGI New Orleans Fellow Lecture.

Dr. Mangin is an ethnomusicologist and visiting scholar at Tulane University who has conducted extensive fieldwork across West Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States. For nearly three decades, his research has documented Senegalese cosmopolitanism through mbalax, the country’s preeminent urban dance music. His work examines how practitioners in Senegal and the United States negotiate musical meaning, from points of agreement to productive dissonances, illuminating cultural connections across the Afro-Atlantic. 

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Limited capacity.