BARNARD FORUM ON MIGRATION PRESENTS ONE DROP:
HOW JAMAICA CHANGED THE WORLD'S MUSIC WITH
VIVIEN GOLDMAN, APRIL 11
Vivien
Goldman |
New
York, NY, March 14, 2002 – Musician, broadcaster
and author Vivien Goldman will speak on the
influence of Jamaican music on a wide range
of American music on Thursday, April 11, 2002
at 7 p.m. in Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
(117th St. and Broadway).
Goldman’s multimedia presentation on Jamaican
influences on everything from punk to hip-hop
will be an integrated lecture with D.J. Ras
Kush playing the music of artists such as No
Doubt, the Artful Dodger, Bob Marley, The Clash
and Shaggy, and photographer David Corio displaying
a stunning slide show.
Goldman has devoted her writing, music and broadcasting
work to the study of Afro-Carribean and global
music links and perspectives. As a pioneering
journalist in the 1970s, she wrote Bob Marley’s
first biography, Soul Rebel, Natural Mystic,
and worked closely with the inventor of harmolodics,
Ornette Coleman, as well as Afrobeat creator
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
Goldman’s most recent book, The Black
Chord: Visions of the Groove, has been described
by Rolling Stone magazine as "a
small miracle". Goldman’s work has
also appeared in Interview, the Village
Voice, Spin, The Daily Telegraph
and Harper’s Bazaar. In addition,
she launched the groundbreaking 1980s TV show
"Big World Café," which combined
world and Anglophone music.
Praised by Le Monde for her solo single
"Launderette" as "a woman of
artistic dimensions and significant politics
who helped evolve the New Wave," Goldman
has also released tracks with trip-hop pioneers
Massive Attack, Cold Cut and Japanese symphonist
Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Photo
by David Corio |
Photographer
David Corio, a London native, began his professional
career by taking photos for New Musical Express,
The Face, Time Out and Black
Echoes. Corio’s photographs have been
exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum
and The Photographer’s Gallery in London.
After a position as music writer at City
Limits and a freelance photographer for
The Daily Telegraph and The Times,
Corio now works for The New York Times,
Mojo, VP, Heartbeat and
Island Records in New York. A comprehensive
collection of Corio’s photographs of black
musicians was published in Goldman’s Black
Chord.
Ras Kush was born in Harlem in 1970 and was
raised in Haiti and New York City, where he
studied music. Kush has been a DJ since 1986
and has played in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.
He has also worked as a percussionist for diverse
reggae producers, including Bullwackies, the
first producer of reggae in the U.S. Kush d.j.s
a monthly program in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
at Family called "DubDance" and a
biweekly event at Swim in Manhattan. He produces
his own music and manages the record store Jammyland
in the East Village. Upcoming events can be
found in publications such as Time Out
and on the website www.geocities.com/ras_kush.
The
Barnard Forum on Migration sponsors special
events including lectures, readings and films
exploring issues connected to the movement of
people from one part of the world to another.
Each year, the Forum hosts distinguished writers
and academics who address a broad range of issues
relating to questions of migration and social
order.
The Barnard Forum is supported by a bequest
establishing the Weiss International Fellowship
Fund to bring distinguished scholars in literature
and the arts to Barnard. The forum is organized
by Caryl Phillips, the Henry R. Luce Professor
of Migration and Social Order.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served. For more information,
please call 212-854-9011.
What: Barnard Forum on Migration presents
One Drop: How Jamaica Changed the World’s
Music.
When: Thursday, April 11, 2002 at 7 P.M.
Where: Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, 117th
St. and Broadway
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Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
Rebecca Eckstein, Office of Public Affairs,
212-854-2037
Cordelia Lawton, English Department, 212-854-9011
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