A panel discussion on Blues music moderated by Professor Gabriel Solis, musicology and theater (UIUC). Professor Solis is a scholar of African American music and of Indigenous musics of the Southwestern Pacific. He has done ethnographic and historical research with jazz musicians in the US, and with musicians in Australia and Papau New Guinea. Drawing on work in African American studies, anthropology, and history, he addresses the ways people engage the past, performing history and memory through music. Other panelists include the performers Candy Foster and Dawn Clark from Candy Foster and the Shades of Blue; Bob Paleczny, Blues Genre Director for WEFT 90.1FM; and Augustus Wood, postdoc, School of Labor and Employment Relations,UIUC. The event is connected to our current exhibit Blues Dancing and Its African American Roots and is part of our Contemporary Conversations series.
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