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Souls, 2019
Anndretta Lyle Wilson (2019) Interview with Raniyah Copeland, President and CEO of the Black AIDS... more Anndretta Lyle Wilson (2019) Interview with Raniyah Copeland, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute Discussing Black Feminist Leadership, and Black Women at Risk. As the new President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, Raniyah Copeland offers insight on her commitment to the organization being a model for nonprofit community based advocacy and intervention. Copeland shares ideas about collaborative Black solutions for Black people, and including Hollywood influencers in the effort to
reach Black families. The Black AIDS Institute is the only national Black organization dedicated to ending HIV and supporting those living with HIV.
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2019
The histories of Black Americans who significantly influenced French life and culture, 1 whether ... more The histories of Black Americans who significantly influenced French life and culture, 1 whether lauded musicians or the four hundred thousand troops brought into France during WWI, are hardly marked or visible across the most frequented tourist destinations nor within state-sponsored museums dedicated to national history. 2 There are neither "environments of memory" nor "sites of memory," for either visitors or residents interested in the historical presence of African-descended Americans in Paris. 3 Instead, performance events meet the demand of curious travelers who would not otherwise find any commemoration of Black Americans in the form of buildings, statues, plaques, or artifact collections. In the absence of inanimate objects and structures formally dedicated to black-bodied American soldiers and musicians who helped to shape Paris's culture and history since WWI, certain tourist-oriented live performances constitute audible monuments to Black soldiers and musicians. Audible monuments are sound objects constructed through live orature, collective participation , or sound-producing movements that recall history and memory for the purpose of witness engagement or tourist consumption. 4 Toward a critical analysis grounded in performance studies theory, this essay first replays and reinterprets the music and the military histories shared between African-descended US soldiers and the nation of France as a gendered and misaligned romance, and then suggests how that romance was rehearsed and then ruptured by a contemporary African presence during a "Black Paris Tour" performance event in Spring 2015. 5 Paris tourism events that promise "Black" content are often likely to recall historical military and musical service through contemporary lenses in ways that concurrently create and satisfy nostalgia for tourists and local participants. 6 There are at least three distinct tourist experiences that offer a guided tour of Paris with an emphasis on Black or noir experiences, history, and culture in the city. The longest
Journal of African American Studies, 2019
American performance traditions and music industry trends have historically denigrated religious ... more American performance traditions and music industry trends have historically denigrated religious practices and spaces that African descended people considered sacred or worthy of regard. This legacy of sacrilege is an extension of colonialism wherein the cultural traditions of those conquered are marked primitive, strange, or laughable. Mahalia Jackson resisted such colonial systems of meaning through her discursive song and narratives incorporating both sacred and vernacular Black American traditions across the United States of America and Europe. It was her European success in the early 1950s that boosted her domestic career and distinguished her from peers with equal or greater talent. This critical hearing of her performance, together with a brief archeology of the term gospel,^ reveals how Jackson’s decolonial song labor disrupted structures that had previously excluded the African descended practices and people, and Negro women in particular, from the realm of the sacred.
2015 August Wilson Monologue Competition Program
"As a strategy for listening to a word so loaded with the history and memory of inequality, I sug... more "As a strategy for listening to a word so loaded with the history and memory of inequality, I suggest that we think of the n-word as an utterance that signifies feeling and condition, rather than a word that signifies actual people."
Souls, 2019
Anndretta Lyle Wilson (2019) Interview with Raniyah Copeland, President and CEO of the Black AIDS... more Anndretta Lyle Wilson (2019) Interview with Raniyah Copeland, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute Discussing Black Feminist Leadership, and Black Women at Risk. As the new President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, Raniyah Copeland offers insight on her commitment to the organization being a model for nonprofit community based advocacy and intervention. Copeland shares ideas about collaborative Black solutions for Black people, and including Hollywood influencers in the effort to
reach Black families. The Black AIDS Institute is the only national Black organization dedicated to ending HIV and supporting those living with HIV.
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2019
The histories of Black Americans who significantly influenced French life and culture, 1 whether ... more The histories of Black Americans who significantly influenced French life and culture, 1 whether lauded musicians or the four hundred thousand troops brought into France during WWI, are hardly marked or visible across the most frequented tourist destinations nor within state-sponsored museums dedicated to national history. 2 There are neither "environments of memory" nor "sites of memory," for either visitors or residents interested in the historical presence of African-descended Americans in Paris. 3 Instead, performance events meet the demand of curious travelers who would not otherwise find any commemoration of Black Americans in the form of buildings, statues, plaques, or artifact collections. In the absence of inanimate objects and structures formally dedicated to black-bodied American soldiers and musicians who helped to shape Paris's culture and history since WWI, certain tourist-oriented live performances constitute audible monuments to Black soldiers and musicians. Audible monuments are sound objects constructed through live orature, collective participation , or sound-producing movements that recall history and memory for the purpose of witness engagement or tourist consumption. 4 Toward a critical analysis grounded in performance studies theory, this essay first replays and reinterprets the music and the military histories shared between African-descended US soldiers and the nation of France as a gendered and misaligned romance, and then suggests how that romance was rehearsed and then ruptured by a contemporary African presence during a "Black Paris Tour" performance event in Spring 2015. 5 Paris tourism events that promise "Black" content are often likely to recall historical military and musical service through contemporary lenses in ways that concurrently create and satisfy nostalgia for tourists and local participants. 6 There are at least three distinct tourist experiences that offer a guided tour of Paris with an emphasis on Black or noir experiences, history, and culture in the city. The longest
Journal of African American Studies, 2019
American performance traditions and music industry trends have historically denigrated religious ... more American performance traditions and music industry trends have historically denigrated religious practices and spaces that African descended people considered sacred or worthy of regard. This legacy of sacrilege is an extension of colonialism wherein the cultural traditions of those conquered are marked primitive, strange, or laughable. Mahalia Jackson resisted such colonial systems of meaning through her discursive song and narratives incorporating both sacred and vernacular Black American traditions across the United States of America and Europe. It was her European success in the early 1950s that boosted her domestic career and distinguished her from peers with equal or greater talent. This critical hearing of her performance, together with a brief archeology of the term gospel,^ reveals how Jackson’s decolonial song labor disrupted structures that had previously excluded the African descended practices and people, and Negro women in particular, from the realm of the sacred.
2015 August Wilson Monologue Competition Program
"As a strategy for listening to a word so loaded with the history and memory of inequality, I sug... more "As a strategy for listening to a word so loaded with the history and memory of inequality, I suggest that we think of the n-word as an utterance that signifies feeling and condition, rather than a word that signifies actual people."