Three key researchers in musical scholarship lead timely conversations on African American music.

• Clifton Boyd

Wednesday, October 30, 1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Dr. Boyd is an assistant professor at New York University. He is a music theorist and musicologist whose book project, Racial Dissonance: American Barbershop Harmony in the Age of Jim Crow, considers the foundational and ongoing racial division in barbershop quartet singing organizations. He explores the stylistic influence of African American music that shaped barbershop music despite the social gatekeeping efforts that kept Black people from participating.

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Hosted by OSU Department of African and African American Studies.