Please join us for a Pedagogy workshop hosted by the Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS). Professor Matthew Morrison will facilitate a workshop entitled, “Interrogating “Diaspora” in African Diasporic Music”

This workshop will unpack how we conceptualize the African Diaspora and African Diasporic music, as we both define and interrogate how diaspora is formed in general, while considering some of the primary arguments of how the music of the African Diaspora is understood historically and in contemporary contexts.

Matthew D. Morrison is an Assistant Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Professor Morrison holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Columbia University, an. M.A. in Musicology from The Catholic University of America, and was a Presidential music scholar at Morehouse College, where he studied violin and conducting. His research focuses on the relationship between (racial) identity, performance, property, copyright law, and inequities within the history of American popular music and beyond.

This Pedagogy workshop will take place on Thursday, February 8 from 10.00-11.00am in the CCSRE Conference room, Building 360. This will be followed by lunch with graduate students. Graduate students, please register here.

This workshop is part of the Black Studies in the Arts (Open Rank) Faculty Search. Each event in the series features a 20-minute mini-lesson followed by Questions and Answers.