James Baldwin s writing about music illuminates the significance of racial slavery for American music. Black American music can help America to move forward.
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.