MC professor to speak on blues
tradition in musicRelease Date: March 24, 2004
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Joel Rosen, an authority on the
history of blues music, will present a free lecture and performance
entitled “Singing Jim Crow: The Narrative and Musical Culture of the Blues
Tradition” on April 1 at Monmouth College.
The program, which is part of the college’s
Monmouth Guest Lecture Series, will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Underground
café, on the lower level of Grier Residence Hall.
Rosen, of Savannah, Ga., is a visiting faculty
member in the MC sociology department this semester. He has spoken
extensively on the subject of black and white country music traditions and
has taught courses in the blues and its related genres at several colleges
and universities.
The program will open with a discussion of the
evolution of the blues tradition in the American South during the
so-called “Jim Crow” period and will finish with a demonstration of some
of the regional distinctions in the blues. Rosen, who plays guitar, will
be assisted by Dick Johnston, associate professor of political economy and
commerce, on the harmonica.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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