“The Black Album”: Bowie, Prince & Sonic Experimentalism (conference session)

1.28.17 | 10:30am–12pm
January 28, 2017 | 10:30am–12pm |

Location: 

Yale University Art Gallery see map 
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520

Event description: 

“The Black Album”: Bowie, Prince & Sonic Experimentalism

Speakers:

Michael Veal, Professor of Music and African American Studies, Yale University, “Paint”

Greg Tate, author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America and Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, “This Is What It’s Like When Starships Cry—A Cosmic Soliloquy On The Warp Driven Vessels Christened Bowie and Prince”

Moderator: Richard Yarborough, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

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