Left of Black S2:E11
Has the Hip-Hop Generation Squandered Black Music’s Legacy?

w/ Nicole Fleetwood and William Banfield 
November 21, 2011

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by Bill Banfield, the author of Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again?  Banfield is a  composer, recording artist, musical director, scholar and the Professor in the Music and Societies program at the Berklee School of Music. The Detroit native talks about growing up in the city that bred the Motown sound, and highlights the significance of his relationships with communities of artists including composer T.J. Anderson.  Neal and Banfield also contemplate why younger generations are not knowledgeable of great music in history.  

Later Neal is joined by Nicole Fleetwood , Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University and  the author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. Fleetwood and Neal discuss the promises and pitfalls of black iconic images, the photography of  Charles “Teenie” Harris, and the role that her grandmother played in having her consider how “blackness” is seen. Lastly, Fleetwood discusses the importance of a realist aesthetic in black art.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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