“Sound and Witness: Oral/Aural Histories and Materiality” Panel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2021 Spring Fellows Colloquia 04/23/2021
“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 […]
“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 […]
Fourth Panel on “Jazz & Self-Determination” @ the Left Forum 06/29/2019
June 29th, 2019 – Panel Discussion at the Left Forum in Brooklyn, New York with Ras Moshe, Greg Tate, Ahmed Abdullah, and Jeremiah Hosea
On The Organology of the Kora
Published on the online blog of the American Musical Instrument Society; May 30th, 2019. Full text here: https://www.amis.org/post/on-the-organology-of-the-kora
Second Panel Discussion on “Jazz & Self Determination” @ the People’s Forum 06/02/2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019, @ the People’s Forum, Panel Discussion with Ras Moshe Burnette and Althea SullyCole with Warren Smith, Sam Anderson, William J. Harris and Aurora Flores.
Panel Discussion on “Jazz and Self-Determination” @ the Left Forum 06/03/2018
Sunday, June 3, 2018, @ Left Forum, Panel Discussion with Ras Moshe Burnette and Althea SullyCole with Juma Sultan (Legal Aid), Basir Mchawi (WBAI Educator), Joe McPhee (Musician & Proffessor), Warren Smith (Musician, Arranger, Educator and Archivist)
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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