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DESCRIPTION:What are the songs on your life’s playlist\, the sonic touchs
 tones that transport you across time and space? Stanford Public Humanities
 \, Department of Music\, and Creative Writing Program invite you to an eve
 ning of deep listening and musical insights as award-winning author Hanif 
 Abdurraqib discusses 12 tracks from across his life experience. He will be
  in conversation with Nate Sloan\, musicologist\, co-host of the podcast S
 witched on Pop\, and Stanford PhD graduate. Book selling/signing to follow
 . \n\nPlease RSVP at this link to attend this free event. \n\nHanif Abdurr
 aqib is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columb
 us\, Ohio and the 2025-26 Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford. His newest 
 release\, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random Ho
 use\, 2024) was a New York Times Bestseller and longlisted for the Nationa
 l Book Award in nonfiction and the winner of the National Book Critics Cir
 cle Award for Criticism. His previous book\, A Little Devil In America (Ra
 ndom House\, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordo
 n Burn Prize. In 2021\, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow\, and in 2
 024 was named a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of Beec
 hcroft High School.\n\nNate Sloan is a musicologist and performer who rese
 arches jazz\, classical\, and popular music. He is assistant professor of 
 musicology at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Mus
 ic and co-host of the podcast Switched on Pop. Nate is co-author of Switch
 ed on Pop: How Popular Music Works and Why it Matters and has contributed 
 articles about music to the New York Times\, Musical Quarterly\, and Journ
 al of Musicology\, and appeared as a music commentator for NPR\, CBS\, PBS
 \, and CNN and other acronymic media companies. Nate graduated from Stanfo
 rd University with his PhD in musicology in 2016. \n\nThis event is made p
 ossible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman De
 nning. Cosponsored with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Songs in the Key of Life with Hanif Abdurraqib and Nate Sloan
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