Tsou Music Scholar Series: Lecture by Dr. Tammy Kernodle

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Your Friend Langston: 
An Examination of Langston Hughes' Collaborations with Black Women Musicians

Arthur Zankel Music Center

Made possible by the <a href="https://www.skidmore.edu/music/tsou-music/index.php" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Judy Tsou '75 Music Scholar Series</a>Writer/activist Langston Hughes has been identified as a radical and progressive voice whose imprint stretched throughout the 20th century. Little attention has been given to his collaborations with women artisans who were key in the formation of black liberation ideology during the height of the black civil rights movement. This talk explores the personal and collaborative relationships that Hughes cultivated with folk singer Odetta, jazz musician Nina Simone, and composer/pianist Margaret Bonds during the late 1950s and 1960s. It seeks to illuminate how these relationships and the resulting compositions/performances linked the intellectual labor of black women to the mid-century black liberation movement.Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle, musician and scholar, teaches and researches in the areas of African American music (concert and popular music). She has worked closely with a number of educational programs including the American Jazz Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, NPR, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the BBC. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, she is the author of the biography Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, and she served as Associate Editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American Music. She appears in several acclaimed documentaries including Carol Bash’s Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, Judy Chaikin’s Girls in the Band and Stanley Nelson’s Emmy-award winning Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. She is the immediate Past President of the Society for American Music and currently holds the rank of University Distinguished Professor of Music at Miami University in Oxford, OH. Free &amp; open to the public

<h3>Zankel welcomes Skidmore students, faculty, staff, and the general public back to the Music Center!</h3>Zankel Event Safety Guidelines:All event guests 12 and older are required to be vaccinated.All guests must wear masks at all times.If you are showing any COVID-19 symptoms, please refrain from coming to the event in person.All events, if permitted, will be available via a Livestream link: <a href="https://vimeo.com/event/1653655" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://vimeo.com/event/1653655</a>

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