A Reading from Harmony Holiday
Afrosonics / Author of A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom
PAST – Thursday, April 29, 7:00 PM CDT
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Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, director, and the author of four collections of poetry, Negro League Baseball, Go Find Your Father/ A Famous Blues, Hollywood Forever, and A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom. She founded and runs Afrosonics, an archive of jazz and everyday diaspora poetics and Mythscience, a publishing imprint. Harmony studied Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and taught for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. She received her MFA from Columbia University and has received the Motherwell Prize from FenceBooks, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a NYFA fellowship and a California Book Award. She’s currently completing her next collection of poems M a à f a (summer 2021) and a collection of essays Love is War for Miles. She’s also working on a biography of singer Abbey Lincoln. Her work is deeply influenced by Black music, and collective improvisation with Black people, in the tradition of her father, who was a Northern Soul singer and songwriter and introduced her to artists he worked with like Ray Charles, The Staples Singers, and Bobby Womack.
A Conversation with Dylan Robinson
Author of Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies
Thursday, May 6, 7:30 PM CDT
Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) artist and writer. He is also an Associate Professor at Queen’s University, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts. He is the author of Hungry Listening (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) on Indigenous and settler colonial forms of listening. His current research focuses on the material and sonic life of Indigenous ancestors held by museums, and reparative artistic practices that address these ancestors incarceration in museums. Other publications include the co-edited collection Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) which received both the AMS’s Ruth Solie Award for best collection and the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Ellen Koskoff Prize for edited collections.
“On the Spectral as a Domain of Sonic Thought” with Pedro Oliveira
Decolonising Design
Saturday, May 8, 2:00 PM CDT
Pedro Oliveira is a researcher, sound artist and educator whose work advances a decolonizing inquiry of listening and the materiality of sound. His current artistic and academic research focuses on a historical, aesthetic, and material investigation on the deployment of so-called “accent recognition software” in the asylum system of Germany, with a focus on the limits of “machine listening”. He holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and is currently a PostDoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
Presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers and with Collective Broadcast Co.
