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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Advent of American Mass Culture

Thursday, October 4, 2007
8:00 - 9:30pm
Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art

Reading from Dancing in the Dark, by Caryl Phillips
Novelist and Professor of English, Yale University

dubois2Friday, October 5, 2007
9:00 - 10:30am
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University Room 109
Session One: African American (Self) Representation at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

  • "Black Representation in Nineteenth-Century Sheet Music Illustration" Stephanie Dunson, Department of English, University of Rhode Island 
  • “The Real Thing: Turn-of-the-Century African American Theatre”
    David Krasner, Department of Theater, Emerson College
  • “Creating an Image in Black: African American Photographers and Mass Culture”
    John Stauffer, Departments of English and of American Civilization, Harvard University

Discussion moderators:
Lyneise Williams, Department of Art, UNC-CH
Matt Harper, Department of History, UNC-CH

10:30 - 11:00am: Break

micheaux11:00 - 12:30pm
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University Room 109
Session Two: Ragtime, Cinema, and the Blues: African American Artistry and the Emergence of Mass Culture

  • “Crossing Boundaries: Black Musicians who Defied Musical Genres”
    Thomas Riis, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • "The Secret Life of Oscar Micheaux: Race Films, Southern History, and the Making of American Mass Culture”
    Robert Andrew Jackson, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
  • "Hear Me Talking to You": Racial Rebellion from the Blues to the Folk Music Revival
    Grace Elizabeth Hale, Department of History, University of Virginia

Discussion Moderators:
Mark Katz, Department of Music, UNC-CH
Charlene Regester, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-CH

12:30 - 1:30pm:  Lunch

joplin1:30 - 3:30pm
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University Room 109
Session Three: Creating and Consuming Mass Culture

  • “Black Creativity and Black Stereotype:  Re-thinking Twentieth-Century Music in America”
    Susan Curtis, Department of History, Purdue University
  • “'We Rather Think its Our Newcomers to the City": The Great Migration and the Making of a Modern U.S. Mass Culture"
    Davarian Baldwin, Department of History, Boston College
  • “Sacred Blues: African-American Religion, Race Records, and the Culture of Mass Consumption, 1910-1940”
    John Giggie, Department of History, University of Alabama

Discussion Moderators:
John Kasson, Professor of History, UNC-CH
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Department of Religion, UNC-CH

louis3:30 – 5:00pm
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University Room 109
Session Four: The Artistry of African American History, Celebrity, and Brawn in Post World War One America

  • "'At the Feet of Dessalines': African Americans Put Haiti on Stage, 1919-1939"
    Clare Corbould, Department of History, University of Sydney
  • “The Black Eagle of Harlem”
    Shane White, Department of History, University of Sydney
  • “More than a Prizefight: Louis, Schmeling and the Transnational Politics of Boxing”
    Lewis Erenberg, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago 

Discussion Moderators:
Kenneth Janken, Department of African and African American Studies, UNC-CH
Greg Kaliss, Department of History, UNC-CH
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