http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/rss/rss.xmlCBMR Digest is a publication of the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago.Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:28:05 -0500Cascade Servercbmr.contact@colum.edu (CBMR Webmaster)http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/voices-of-changeThe CBMR and Columbia College’s Fashion Study Collection assisted in the creation and design of Voices of Change: Black Women in Music, an exhibition that was curated and organized by the Hokin Project, a student-run collaboration of the Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department (AEMM) and Student Affairs/Department of Exhibitions and Performance Spaces (DEPS) of Columbia College Chicago. The exhibition explored the lives of three influential African-American female performers and their impact on twentieth-century popular music: gospel legend and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson, pioneer composer, arranger, and jazz trombonist Melba Liston, and the genre-traversing singer Mavis Staples. Their stories chronicle early black music entrepreneurship, the uniting force of music during the civil rights movement, and the effect of African-American vernacular musics—especially jazz, gospel and soul—on the global landscape. Above all, Voices of Change showcases these women’s determination to create music in historical moments when female musicians of color were often outnumbered and disregarded, opening the door for generations of artists to come.Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:43:54 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/voices-of-changehttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/eventsNovember 1–4, 2012Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:23:49 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/eventshttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/treemonishaCBMR is proud to be one of the supporting organizations of the exhibit, Treemonisha: Celebrating African Americans in Classical Music. This traveling exhibit is the thesis project developed by Rosaleen Rhee, a masters degree candidate in Museum Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. The five large panels focus on the contributions of past and living classical musicians of African-American heritage, including Francis Johnson, Blind Tom, Scott Joplin, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still, George Walker, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Harry Burleigh, Marian Anderson, Sylvia Olden Lee, and Robert McFerrin, plus local classical African-American musicians in the Seattle area.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:47:02 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/treemonishahttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/travel-grantsJames Carrier and Neil Clarke were awarded travel grants in Fall 2011. Carrier, an independent writer and film maker from Madison, Wisconsin, was awarded a grant to work at the CBMR toward the completion of a film documentary on the work of Dena Epstein titled “The Librarian and the Banjo.” He was in residence at the CBMR during June 2012.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:16:46 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/travel-grantshttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/reading-roomBecause of the renovation of the building facade at 618 S. Michigan Avenue, the Center’s Library and Archives has temporarily moved its reading room next door to the sixth floor of 624 S. Michigan. Full remote and on-site service has not been interrupted. We expect to occupy the temporary space during the summer months and then move back to 618 S. Michigan by early fall when the construction is finished.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:44:07 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/reading-roomhttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/blues-people /* */ Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:16:30 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/blues-peoplehttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/jnbc-fellowshipThe John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University has named CBMR executive director Monica Hairston O’Connell a 2012 public humanities fellow. The JNBC offers fellowships “to encourage thoughtful reflection on issues of concern to the public humanities and to connect cultural organizations and the public.” Fellows are asked to present on their work, participate in and contribute to intellectual life at the JNBC, and produce an essay, case study, instructional materials, or other documents for publication. Hairston O’Connell’s project proposal, titled “Re/Sounding the Black Music Archive,” asks how “differently situated publics, constituencies, and communities acknowledge, promote, and steward the counter-histories in and of the culturally-specific archive while simultaneously amplifying and innovating around the archive’s connection to contemporary (political and creative) conversations.” She will be in residence at Brown during the fall 2012 semester.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:47:15 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/jnbc-fellowshiphttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/in-memoriam /* */ Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:07:29 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/in-memoriamhttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/crazy-bluesCrazy BluesWed, 01 Aug 2012 17:33:15 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/crazy-blueshttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/errataIn Gianpaolo Chiriacò’s article “The Legacy of Field Hollers: A Research Framework” (CBMR Digest, Fall 2011, vol. 24, no.2, 7), the reference “…by Frederick Law Olmstead from 1873” should be corrected to read “…by Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: with Remarks on their Economy, 1865 (the journey was made in 1853).”Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:07:58 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/erratahttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/sphinxconSphinx, the national organization that is dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts, will convene a national event to address the issues of diversity in the performing arts, bringing together leaders from all disciplines of the performing arts to share ideas, challenges, successes, and lessons learned in pursuit of increased diversity in all aspects of the performing arts sector. Organizations working in all aspects of the performing arts will share challenges and interest in diversity, whether it be engaging diverse audiences, building diversity among program participants, or supporting the work organizations are doing around diversity.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:32:52 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/sphinxconhttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/internsThe CBMR Library and Archives was fortunate to host two interns in residence during the past academic year. Both interns recently graduated after completing their Library and Information Science programs. Dustin Witsman from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, worked on the Fernando Jones papers, a “hybrid” collection that includes both paper-based and digital files. Jones is a professor in the music department at Columbia College Chicago and a well-known blues guitarist, educator, and blues advocate. He offers a popular Blues Camp every summer for children (mostly 6th grade and up) as well as professional development seminars for K–12 teachers. Witsman undertook a comprehensive integrated catalog of the donation (which is ongoing), facing the challenges of working with a large set of born-digital files, digitized materials, and a wide assortment of paper and print items, including a board game that Jones designed. This project served as a pilot project for exploring ways to keep related files and documents linked in the real world, while providing access to the materials from both a hard drive and archival boxes. A virtual exhibit on the WordPress platform and other ideas for accessing the Fernando Jones collection are in progress. During his two-semester internship, Witsman also conducted two personal interviews and observed a professional oral history interview with Jones, which informed the description and organization of the collection.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:57:07 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/internshttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/bmrjBlack Music Research Journal is published for the CBMR by and available through University of Illinois Press. For ordering, subscription, and CBMR membership information, please visit the CBMR’s membership page.Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:29:44 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/bmrjhttp://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/accessions /* */ Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:50:05 -0500http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/digest/2012/spring/accessions