Duke University | Fall Semester 2014

Wednesday @ 6:15pm – 8:45pm | White Lecture Hall (107)

Duke East Campus

Instructor:

Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D. | man9@duke.edu | 919.684.3987

Twitter: @NewBlackMan  

The course posits the Black Performance tradition as a living and breathing archive that helped produce Jackson’s singular creative genius within the realms of music, movement and politics, including the influence of Black vernacular practices like signifying and sampling, the network of Black social spaces known as the Chitlin’ Circuit, the impact of Black migration patterns to urban spaces in the Midwest (like Gary, Chicago and Detroit—all critical to Jackson’s artistic development) and Black performance traditions including Blackface minstrelsy.