We live in the unprecedented information age of immediate access to all types of content, most especially music.
But does the instant access to these works also mean that there is a superficial understanding of the legacy of Black artists and American music as a whole? The crisis of the musical archive is that "...we have people writing about Black culture who have no depth of knowledge about Black culture." -Dr. Mark Anthony Neal In a reversed role, usual-host Dr. Neal finds himself to be the guest in this special episode of Left of Black. He was invited to the City College of New York by longtime colleague and scholar Prof. Vanessa K. Valdés to discuss his new book, Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive, published by NYU Press
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