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SUMMARY:Francesca T. Royster Discussion & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join author Francesca T. Royster at the Urbana Free Library for a discussion and book signing on her memoir “Choosing Family: a Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance” as part of Pygmalion 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are times in your life when you make choices that change everything: choosing a new job\, finding a partner\, adopting or having a child. For author Francesca T. Royster\, one of those big changes was choosing to adopt a child with her partner later in life. Her nuanced memoir thoughtfully discusses how this decision affected her notions of family\, adoption\, queerness\, race\, and how these topics also intersected in her life. Her memoir will make you think deeply about your own major life events. \nFrancesca T. Royster is a Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago\, and received her PhD from University of California\, Berkeley in English literature. She’s written scholarly work on Shakespeare\, Black lesbian country-music fans\, Prince\, and Fela Kuti on Broadway\, among other topics. She is the author of the books Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (2022)\, Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance (2023)\, Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (2013)\, and Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (2003)\, as well as numerous scholarly and creative essays. \nReviews on Choosing Family: \n“Affecting . . . Insightful and reflective\, this is a moving tribute to the power of chosen family.” [Publisher’s Weekly] \n“Memorable and fluid\, professor Francesca T. Royster’s memoir Choosing Family blends her family’s history with her story of adopting an infant girl\, juxtaposing personal life with political life and allowing each to illuminate the other. . . . In the lyrical memoir\, the personal and political unite in a queer\, interracial couple’s celebration of choosing to adopt an infant.” [Foreword Reviews] \n“The book builds on an intergenerational lineage of powerful women whose strength Royster brings to her own mothering. . . . A potent love letter to community in all its forms.” [Kirkus Reviews] \nBooks will be available to purchase at the reading. \nThis event is generously funded by The Urbana Free Library Foundation. \n\n\n\nThe Library is committed to making programs accessible for all. If you need an accommodation to attend a program\, please let the Library know at least two weeks in advance. To request an accommodation\, contact the Programming and Outreach Manager via email at programming@urbanafree.org or via phone at 217-367-4057.
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LOCATION:Urbana Free Library\, 201 W. Green Street\, Urbana\, IL\, 61801
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SUMMARY:Musical Crossroads: Interpreting the Material Culture of African American Music
DESCRIPTION:The ways we engage with music are constantly evolving. In recent decades\, countless museums\, historic sites\, libraries\, and archives have built music collections for research\, exhibitions\, and programming purposes. Within this movement to document\, preserve\, and interpret music’s existence\, is a growing interest in music’s material culture\, the tangible objects that are the evidence of its existence. This musical material culture encompassing everything from iconic musical instruments and costumes to the seemingly mundane office equipment or promotional toy\, facilitates research in African American music which is at the center of an eco-system that lives and thrives through a network of connections and encounters among people\, communities\, places\, organizations\, and institutions. \nMcClung Fleming’s 1974 model for artifact study has been a useful framework for analyzing material culture within the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Music and Performing Arts Collection. With four basic operations of identification\, evaluation\, cultural analysis\, and interpretation\, Fleming’s model extends basic museum identification procedures\, which carefully document the appearance and historical significance\, into the realm of humanistic discussion. Applying this model to musical artifacts deepens our understanding of music’s meaning in a social\, historical\, and cultural context. \nDwandalyn R. Reece’s latest book\, Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music (March 2023)\, draws upon a diverse array of objects in the Museum’s music collection to expand our understanding of the culture and the historical impact of African American music-making in the United States and around the world.  This material culture of African American music opens the door to a broad network of encounters\, relationships\, community structures\, and activities that bring music to life. As source material\, objects pose and invite questions that have the potential to unearth hidden figures and additional narratives\, leading to new interpretive possibilities. They can challenge or affirm established paradigms\, uncover the voices and experiences of those who have been unheard or overlooked\, and have the potential to expand historical narratives in new directions. \n  \n \nDr. Dwandalyn R. Reece is Associate Director for the Humanities at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. She brings more than thirty-five years of knowledge and experience in public humanities work\, including twelve years as NMAAHC’s Curator of Music and Performing Arts. Under her leadership\, the Museum built a collection of over 4\,000 objects and curated the museum’s inaugural permanent exhibition\, Musical Crossroads\, for which she received the Secretary’s Research Prize in 2017. Other projects have include author and editor of the publication\, Musical Crossroads: Stories about the Objects of African American Music (March 2023)\, contributing producer of the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap (2021)\, co-curating the Smithsonian Year of Music in 2019 and the museum’s 2016 grand opening music festival\, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration\, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Program\, Rhythm and Blues: Tell it Like it Is in 2011.  She is also chair of the Smithsonian Music Executive Committee\, a pan-institutional group that promotes access to the SI vast musical holdings. Dwan has appeared on numerous media outlets including NPR\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, CBS This Morning\, USA Today\, Vice News and Al Jazeera and has appeared on such podcasts as WTF with Marc Maron\, Sound Expertise\, and the Hikma Collective.    Her 2019 Ted X Mid-Atlantic talk on blackface minstrelsy was posted on Ted.com and has appeared in several documentaries including Rosenwald (2012) and the Unladylike episode on Gladys Bentley (2018). She just completed her second season on the award-winning SiriusXM podcast series\, All Music is Black Music.  Dwan serves as Board Member-at-Large for the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for American Music.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/musical-crossroads-interpreting-the-material-culture-of-african-american-music/
LOCATION:Music Building Auditorium\, 1114 W. Nevada St.\, Urbana\, IL
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