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The Pointer Sisters performing in New York City in 1983, the year the group released its album em Break Out /em , which included four top 10 hits.
If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters Jump (For My Love), Automatic or Neutron Dance dominated the charts during the first half of the decade. The popularity of these records rested in the accessibility of their lyrical content and melodic structure and the hypnotic nature of their rhythms. Anyone could sing Jump for My Love after hearing the chorus once; after Neutron Dance was featured prominently in Eddie Murphy s breakout film
in the Life of Gospel Foremother Lucie E. Campbell
Dr. Alisha Lola Jones [BIO]
Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
Tuesday, March 2 - 3:30 pm CST
Closing Address
Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim [BIO]
Professor Emerita, Ethnomusicology, Indiana University;
Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology, Yale University (Spring 2021)
Tuesday, March 9 - 3:30 pm CST
The closing keynote video is not available.
Each year the Pruit Memorial Symposium is made possible by the Pruit Memorial Symposium Endowment that was established in 1996 by Ella Wall Prichard and the late Lev H. Prichard III of Corpus Christi in memory of Helen Pruit Matthews and her brothers, Dr. Lee Tinkle Pruit and William Wall Pruit.