Blue(s) as Cymbal: Beauford Delaney (Elvin Jones) James Baldwin
Professor Fred Moten presents “Blue(s) as Cymbal: Beauford Delaney (Elvin Jones) James Baldwin” Thursday, February 20 at 3:30 p.m. in the Student Union, Room 180. This is the keynote lecture for In Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney.
In his presentation, Professor Moten brings together James Baldwin’s writing, Beauford Delaney’s painting, and Elvin Jones’s theory of music. He will pose whether or not both artists immerse their audiences in the artwork in a way that allows something else of blackness to show up beyond the any predictable nexus of personhood, narrative, and portrait. He will also ask if it is possible that this new and generous way of representing blackness becomes sensible for us through the theory of "musical color" formulated by the great drummer Elvin Jones, as a kind of synesthetic nonsense.
Professor Fred Moten teaches black studies, critical theory, performance studies, and poetics in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. His latest books are all that beauty (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017-2018).
Free and open to the public. Parking is available at Volunteer Hall Garage on White Avenue.
Books will be available for purchase.
Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 3:30pm
Student Union, 180
1502 Cumberland Ave. Knoxville, TN 37996
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