{"id":9070,"date":"2017-03-22T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2017-03-22T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:00:07","slug":"bamboula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/bamboula\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium | Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues with John Davis &#8217;79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/bamboula\/bamboulatitlecard-600px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9072\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/BamboulaTitleCard-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/BamboulaTitleCard-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/BamboulaTitleCard-600px-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bamboula! Symposium has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 11 from 2 &#8211; 3:30 p.m.\u00a0in Petteruti Lounge, second floor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/Facilities\/Facilities_Management\/maps\/index.php#building\/FAUNCEHSE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Campus Center\/Faunce House<\/a>. A reception will follow in the lobby of the John Hay Library.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exhibit,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/bamboula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em> Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, was conceived and curated by Brown graduate, pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/johndavispianist.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Davis &#8217;79<\/a>. It will run from March 21\u00a0to May 5, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues - Symposium\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iQcDvCq7JDo?list=PL2PwShbFBf4DlFPK3GfUB7rY8xrsSPR52\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Organized and moderated by <strong>Tony Bogues<\/strong>, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory and Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown, the symposium will feature panelists <strong>John Davis &#8217;79<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Brandy Monk-Payton<\/strong> <strong>AM&#8217;12, PhD&#8217;16<\/strong>,\u00a0Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: Eric Lott is unable to attend the symposium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9073\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/bamboula\/johndavisaboutphoto\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9073\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/JohnDavisAboutPhoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/JohnDavisAboutPhoto.jpg 264w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/JohnDavisAboutPhoto-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Davis; photo by John Halpern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With <em>Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues<\/em>, the exhibition he has now conceived and curated at Brown University\u2019s John Hay Library, pianist John Davis continues to define, excavate, and disseminate a previously-unacknowledged African American roots music. Davis is most associated with his frequent concerts in the United States and abroad stemming from three critically-acclaimed recordings on Newport Classic: <em>John Davis Plays Blind Tom<\/em> [2000], a top-ten seller in Classical Music at Tower Records and Amazon.com; <em>Marshfield Tornado: John Davis Plays Blind Boone<\/em> [2008], a repeat No. 1 seller on the Ragtime chart at Amazon.com; and <em>Halley\u2019s Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain &amp; John Davis<\/em> [2010], a CD of Twain-related compositions \u201cplayed powerfully and with a rich palette,\u201d according to <em>The New York Times<\/em>. At the core of Davis\u2019 grassroots pursuit of forgotten black culture is the pianist\u2019s personal archive of rare 19<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; and early 20<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>century printed African Americana that is the source for many of the ideas and materials that have filtered into his concerts, recordings, and literary contributions to <em>African American Lives<\/em>, the <em>African American National Biography<\/em>, and <em>Stress and Coping in Autism, <\/em>all published by Oxford University Press. Mr. Davis\u2019 cutting-edge career has been featured on CNN; CNN-International; ABC Radio National (Australia); the <em>BBC World News<\/em>; NPR\u2019s <em>All Things Considered<\/em>, <em>Performance Today<\/em>, and <em>On Point, with Tom Ashbrook<\/em>; PBS\u2019 <em>Life 360<\/em>; <em>The Today Show <\/em>on NBC, ABC\u2019s <em>Good Morning America<\/em>; and in a program-long interview of him on ABC\u2019s <em>Nightline Up-Close<\/em>. Among the countless print publications in which he has been profiled are <em>The New York Times,<\/em> <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>The<\/em> <em>Oxford American<\/em>, <em>The Independent<\/em> (London), and <em>Scientific American<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandy Monk-Payton<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9091\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/bamboula\/b-monk-payton_headshot_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9091\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/B.Monk-Payton_Headshot_2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/B.Monk-Payton_Headshot_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/B.Monk-Payton_Headshot_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/02\/B.Monk-Payton_Headshot_2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandy Monk-Payton, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brandy Monk-Payton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow associated with the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. She obtained her <span id=\"m_-8491567987570302881:21k.2\">Ph<\/span>.D. in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University where she was a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow and a Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Her work on race and representation has been published in the edited collection\u00a0<i>From <span id=\"m_-8491567987570302881:21k.3\">Madea<\/span> to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry<\/i>\u00a0as well as the journals\u00a0<i>The Black Scholar<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Feminist Media Histories\u00a0<\/i>(forthcoming). She is currently working on her first book project\u00a0<i>Dark Optics: Blackness, Exposure, and Celebrity in Media Culture<\/i>. In Fall 2017, she will begin a position as Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at\u00a0<span id=\"m_-8491567987570302881:21k.4\">Fordham<\/span> University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event:<\/strong>\u00a0Symposium<br \/>\n<strong>Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, April 11, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>2\u00a0&#8211; 3:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Petteruti Lounge, Second Floor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/Facilities\/Facilities_Management\/maps\/index.php#building\/FAUNCEHSE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Campus Center\/Faunce House<\/a>, 75 Waterman Street, Providence<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Previous Related Events<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Tuesday, March 21, 2017<\/strong>, the Brown University Library and the Music Department\u00a0also hosted two\u00a0events related to the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibition Opening &amp; Reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<strong> exhibit opening and reception<\/strong>\u00a0took place in the Exhibition Gallery of the John Hay Library from 4\u00a0&#8211; 5:30\u00a0p.m. The exhibit,<em> Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues,<\/em> is an in-depth survey of the African American roots of popular music and show business in the United States. The exhibition includes significant and visually arresting printed artifacts of the shared African- and European-based musical tradition established in colonial America, a cultural synthesis that continues to shape our nation&#8217;s identity. The 19th- and early 20th-century books, sheet music, and ephemera included in the exhibition are drawn primarily from the personal collection of John Davis (Exhibition Curator) and the holdings of the Brown University Library. Mr. Davis&#8217; archive of rare 19th-century printed musical African Americana, widely respected in the antiquarian book and ephemera world, is the bedrock of his career as a concert pianist devoted to works influenced by black culture of the American South.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drawing from materials on display in the exhibition, Mr. Davis gave an extraordinary,\u00a0multi-media <strong>concert performance\u00a0<\/strong>entitled <em>Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues:\u00a0A musical journey with pianist John Davis <\/em>at 7 p.m. at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The concert, organized with the Brown Music Department, included special guests Harmonizing Grace, with Hance Phillipe, director, and the\u00a0Old-Time String Band&#8211;both Brown student music groups.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition and all related events are free and open to the public. No registration or ticketing is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bamboula! Symposium has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 11 from 2 &#8211; 3:30 p.m.\u00a0in Petteruti Lounge, second floor, Robert Campus Center\/Faunce House. A reception will follow in the lobby of the John Hay Library. The exhibit, Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues, was conceived and curated by Brown graduate, pianist John Davis &#8217;79. It <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/bamboula\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Symposium | Bamboula! 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