Posts tagged with ‘Nottingham Contemporary’
Heavenly sounds in hi-fi: the art and philosophy of easy listening
Alternately despised and rehabilitated, easy listening music dominated the popular music landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, introduces a selection of recordings that attempts to encompass a sprawling, multifaceted and complex genre.
Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, race and rights, seminar
The rebirth of the protest song in the era of #BlackLivesMatter
Music has played a key role in the angry response to racist policing and contemporary America. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, plays and discusses some examples and asks whether the protest song is enjoying an artistic and political renaissance.
Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, race and rights, seminar
‘Black Man Struggle’ – Jamaican Pop from Mento to Dancehall
Patrick Henderson, doctoral student and C3R associate, surveys Jamaican pop music from the 1950s to the present day, playing and discussing examples of mento, ska, reggae and dancehall and considering their cultural significance.
Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, Patrick Henderson, race and rights, seminar
‘I must keep fighting until I’m dying’ – Paul Robeson’s Freedom and Protest Songs
In this session, C3R postdoctoral co-director Hannah Durkin plays and discusses the slave spirituals and international protest songs of African American singer Paul Robeson to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.
Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Hannah Durkin, Nottingham Contemporary, race and rights, seminar
LGBT Film Festival
Join the Centre for Research in Race and Rights and the University’s Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice for a film festival at the Nottingham Contemporary, Saturday 6 February, 11-5pm. Part of our LGBT History Month 2016 celebrations.
Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, fesitval, film, gay and lesbian, LGBT, LGBT History Month, LGBT History Month 2016, Nottingham Contemporary, Rights and Justice, trans
A Time to Break Silence – screening and Q&A
Join the Centre for Research in Race and Rights for a screening of Edgar Arceneaux’s A Time to Break Silence. Featuring an introduction and Q&A with Patrick Henderson, PhD student in the Department of American and Canadian Studies.
Tags: Arts Council England, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, film, Martin Luther King, Nottingham Contemporary, Patrick Henderson, screening
Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives
The Centre for Research in Race and Rights, the Department of American and Canadian Studies, and Nottingham Contemporary present ‘Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives’.
Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, diversity, equality, history, Nottingham Contemporary, race, Sharon Monteith
Representation and abstraction: politics and the body
In this free event, Professor Richard King discusses ‘Representation and abstraction: politics and the body’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.
Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary
Text paintings and speech acts: literary encounters
In this free event, Professor Sharon Monteith discusses ‘Text paintings and speech acts: literary encounters’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.
Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary
Civil rights photojournalism and open letters on race and rights
In this free event, Professor Sharon Monteith discusses ‘Civil rights Photojournalism and open letters on race and rights’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.
Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary