Yet Do I Marvel: Revisiting HBCU Music Ecosystems

Join Professor Fredara Hadley, ethnomusicology professor at the Juilliard School, for a talk entitled "Yet Do I Marvel: Revisiting HBCU Music Ecosystems."

The event will be held in room 202 of C. Ruth Edwards Music Hall on March 29, 2022, at 4 p.m.

HBCUs have been and continue to be innovative sites of Black music-making. Young Fisk students developed the arranged Negro spiritual, Black composers taught at HBCUs and composed music for their students and ensembles, and HBCUs were a critical source of support for classical singers such as Marian Anderson. Yet, our consideration of music history often omits how HBCUs, their faculties, their students and the Black communities in which they exist continue to be fertile ground in American music.

In this talk, Fredara Hadley will theorize what she terms "HBCU music ecosystems" and what is gained by centering the contributions of this ecosystem to American music history.