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SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Bernice Johnson Reagon - =22Song Culture of the Civil Rights Movement=22
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Bernice Johnson Reagon will be in residence at Stanford University from March 5-8=2C 2007 to deliver the 29th in the Raymond F=2E West Memorial Lecture series=2C jointly presented by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts=2E On March 6=2C Dr=2E Reagon will give a lecture demonstration entitled =22Song Culture of the Civil Rights Movement=2E=22=0D=0A=0D=0AFor over four decades=2C Bernice Johnson Reagon has been a major cultural voice for freedom and justice=2E An African American woman=27s voice=2C a child of Southwest Georgia=2C a voice raised in song=2C born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s=2C she is a composer=2C songleader=2C scholar=2C and producer=2E Dr=2E Reagon is Professor Emerita of History at American University and Curator Emerita at the Smithsonian Institution=27s National Museum of American History=2E Her work has been recognized with the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities=2C the Presidential Medal for contribution to public undestanding of the Humanities=2C and MacArthur Fellowship=2E=0D=0A=0D=0ADr=2E Reagon=27s publications and productions include =22If You Don=27t Go=2C Don=27t Hinder Me=3A The African American Sacred Song Tradition =282001=29 and =22Voices of the Civil Rights Movement=2C Black American Freedom Songs =281980=2C 1994=29=2E In 2004=2C Reagon retired after thirty years from performing with Sweet Honey in the Rock=2C the internationally renowned a capella ensemble she founded in 1973=2E Perhaps no individual today better illustrates the transformative power and instruction of traditional African American music and cultural history than Bernice Johnson Reagon=2C who has excelled equally in the realms of scholarship=2C composition=2C teaching=2C and performance=2E
LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Dinkelspiel Auditorium=0D=0A471 Lagunita Drive=0D=0AStanford University
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