“Sound and Witness: Oral/Aural Histories and Materiality” was a panel presented as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2021 Spring Fellows Colloquia on April 23rd, 2021 and included the following presentations: Ensemble Pictures: Matȟó Nážiŋ’s Little Bighorn Muslins and the Response-ability of Testimony Ramey Mize, Douglass Foundation Fellow in American Art, The American Wing Of …
Writing
Talks Uncategorized Writing
May 5, 2021
“An Introduction to Mandé Music” Amati Talk in the Musical Instrument Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 04/04/2021
This presentation is an introduction to some of the overarching themes in the study of music from the Mandé region of West Africa. The Mandé region refers to the geographic scope of the Mandé empire, which existed from 1235-1469 A.D. In present-day terms, this region encompasses Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, and Guinea-Conakry. As one …
London Uncategorized Writing
August 18, 2016
Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso at Barbican, London; May 4th, 2016
This piece, written by Althea SullyCole, was originally published for “A World In London” Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil’s triumphant return to the London stage at the Barbican on May 4th was so full of intimacy, grace and humility that one would never know that they remain two of the greatest pioneers of Brazilian …
London Writing
August 18, 2016
Rokia Traoré at Roundhouse, London; February 6th, 2016
This piece, written by Althea SullyCole, was originally published for “A World In London” Singer songwriter Rokia Traoré performed at Camden’s Roundhouse on February 6th and Althea SullyCole was there! Although Traoré is of noble Malian Bamana dissent, it is much more accurate to say that her music is the product of an increasingly …
London Uncategorized Writing
August 18, 2016
Vieux Farka Touré at Kings Place, London; January 27th, 2016
This piece, written by Althea SullyCole, was originally published for “A World In London” Malian vocalist and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré, who has joined us on A World In London on two separate occasions in 2010 and 2015, performed at King’s Place near King’s Cross in Central London. Touré has released three studio albums, one live album, …