[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: "Celebrating Creative Music II : An Afrocentric Perspective, " Mills College, San Francisco, 30 April 2008

[Announcements for the AMS]

"Celebrating Creative Music II: An Afrocentric Perspective"

The Mills College Music department presents the ninth annual lecture performance series, "PATTERNS: MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITION, A Lecture-Performance Series hosted by India Cooke and Mills College Music 170 - African American Music: The Meaning and The Message". This year's symposium is titled "Celebrating Creative Music II : An Afrocentric Perspective".  It will consist of a panel discussion, musical performance, and audience participation. The emphasis of the discussion will be the social, cultural, political, and socioeconomic aspects of improvised music. 

Panel will include:

Dr. David Bernstein
..Mills College Music Dept. 
Melanie Berzon


.Program Director of KCSM AT 91.1FM
Greg Bridges, KCSM-FM, KPFA-FM
Dr. Karlton Hester.
.. U.C. Santa Cruz, Jazz Studies, assoc. prof.
Roscoe Mitchell

....Mills College, Darius Milhaud Chair of Composition
Andrew Rosenthal
... New College media studies
Art Sato



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. host of "In Your Ear" on KPFA
Angela Wellman

... Oakland Public Conservatory, founding director

The symposium is scheduled for Wednesday April 30th 8:00 p.m. on the Mills campus at Lisser Hall.

More information: call 510.430.2171