Townsend Ludington Professor of American Studies
"If Beale Street Could Talk: Towards a Vernacular Music Criticism"
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Place: Donovan Lounge, 3rd Floor Greenlaw Hall, UNC
The Folklore Program is proud to host a presentation by Dr.
Robert Cantwell, Townsend Ludington Professor of
American Studies at
UNC,
on Thursday, September 25, at 3:30 p.m. in Donovan Lounge,
on the 3rd Floor
of Greenlaw Hall at UNC. Dr. Cantwell
will be speaking about "If Beale Street Could Talk:
Towards a Vernacular Music Criticism." Through the presentation Cantwell will look
for the basis of a vernacular music criticism in a process of reflexive listening
where memory and history come together.
Professor Cantwell arrived here in the early '90s, having taught literature at Kenyon College,
Exeter University, the University of Iowa, and Georgetown University. His research includes
work on bluegrass music, the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife, and the folk revival.
A new collection of essays, If Beale Street Could Talk, due from Illinois in October, includes
the essay upon which this lecture is based.
