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Farah Jasmine Griffin - New Shades of Blue Black Women Singers in the Seventies

  • Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street


Wednesday, 12 November, 2014 • 5:00–6:30 pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

In the same years that black women writers were emerging as major innovators in American literature, black women singers like Syreeta Wright, Minnie Riperton, and Deniece Williams were forging new pathways in American music, rethinking traditional ideas about race and women's vocality. Farah Jasmine Griffin, whose latest book is Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II, will play some of the great recordings from the mid–1970s and discuss their cultural significance.

Cosponsored by Penn's Departments of English and Music.

See here for more information:
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/14-15/griffin.shtml