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

• Matthew D. Morrison

Wednesday, October 23, 1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Dr. Morrison is a respected musicological scholar and Associate Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His recent book, Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States, acknowledges the political and aesthetic agency of blackface minstrelsy in the U.S. This enables Morrison to explore the relationships between racial identity, performance studies, and intellectual property as they shape the global popular music industry.

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• 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.