9/1/20: New York Public Radio quoted book in feature, “America’s Lost Generation of Black Conductors.”
Link: https://www.wqxr.org/story/americas-lost-generation-black-conductors/
Ricardo Averbach is director of orchestral studies at Miami University and past president of the College Orchestra Directors Association.
Bruno Maderna was one of the most influential composers in the twentieth century. He was the eldest of the group of Italian composers born in the 1920s (along with Berio, Nono, Donatoni, and others) who began their career shortly before the second World War and were able to exploit the opportunities offered by the new world that emerged in the post-war years.
Maderna’s story is quite unique. He rose to fame ea
Introduction
Part I: Beyoncé at Work, Making Beyoncé
1. Surviving the Hustle: Beyoncé's Performance of Work
2. "A Scientist of Songs": Beyoncé's Recording Studio Music Making and the Problem of Authorship in Popular Music
3. "Singing All The Time": Constructions of Cultural Identity in Beyoncé's I am... Sasha Fierce
Part II: Beyoncé On Screen, Reading Beyoncé
4. Beyoncé's Mixed Media Feminism: Sounding, Staging, and Sampling Gender Politics in "***Flawle
Chapter One: In the Open City
Chapter Two: Once Upon a Time Babylon
Chapter Three: In the Lion’s Den
Chapter Four: Toward a New Consonance
What a beautiful duet and deep dialogue between anthropologist Umi Vaughan and his batá teacher Carlos Aldama we find in these pages. We are so fortunate their paths crossed and that we now have the gift of their interwoven story, which makes the meaning of the drum in Cuban history, religion, and culture come alive. . . . This is anthropology carried out with dedication, passion, and trust, and most of all with illuminating grace.
DJ Disciple is a Black artist, DJ, radio host, producer, and community advocate and has toured the world over a forty-year career, playing venues such as Studio 54 in New York, Ministry of Sound in London, and Cream in Ibiza. His GRAMMY-nominated track “Caught Up” reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 2002 and was later featured in the Showtime series Queer as Folk. He won an ARI