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Friday, April 21 • 3:45pm - 5:15pm
Black Politics in the Reagan Era

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In our current political condition, many of us are looking back to the Reagan era, remembering the climate of dissent and rage that made our pleasures political. Presenters on this panel look back at a range of black musical genres and artists, from Prince to punk rock to house, asking just how their work articulated the “sign o’ the times,” and what it meant to “party like it’s 1999” as people died and wars were waged. The papers explore the structures of collectivity in the ways these musics were formed, as well as the kinds of communality these musics and artists galvanized.

Jayna Brown, “’These are Coptic Times,’ Thrashing to the Bad Brains, 1983”
Tavia Nyong’o, “Strange Relationship: Prince and the Political”
DJ Lynée Denise, “Fatal Pleasure: House Music, Disappearing Bodies, and Dance Floor Ghosts”
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Salamishah Tillet

TwitterSalamishah Tillet is an associate professor of English and Africana Studies and a faculty member of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania. She has appeared on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and PBS, and in Ebony and Essenc... Read More →

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Jayna Brown

TwitterJayna Brown is Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. Her first book, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern was published by Duke University Press in 2008. Her new book Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other... Read More →
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DJ Lynée Denise

DJ Lynnée Denise works as an artist who incorporates self-directed, project-based research into interactive workshops, music events, and performative lectures. She coined the term “DJ Scholarship” to explain DJ culture as a mix-mode research practice, both performative and subversive... Read More →
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Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is Professor of African-American, American Studies and Theatre Studies at Yale University. His first book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Minnesota, 2009), won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance... Read More →

Friday April 21, 2017 3:45pm - 5:15pm PDT
Learning Labs MoPOP, 325 5th Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109
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