Book launch: Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality Event

Time:: 17:00
Date:: 19 March 2024
Venue:: St Michael and All Angels Church, Bassett

Event details

This event will include a shape note hymn singing workshop (get ready to join in!) by Erin Johnson-Williams, a keynote by visiting guest speaker Dulcie Dixon McKenzie, and a closing performance by Liz Gre, accompanied by Samantha Ege.

Programme:

5pm – sacred harp singing workshop (Erin Johnson-Williams)

5:45 – drinks / break

Join us online from 6pm with this Panopto link [https://southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=da9150a8-1f36-4273-9a07-b11c00f3f5b7]

6:00 – Dulcie Dixon McKenzie (The Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham); Keynote lecture: ‘“Give me that Old-time Religion” Reimagining Old-time Black Pentecostal Singing as Mobility, Agency, and Decoloniality’

Video responses

6:45 – performance by Liz Gre, accompanied by Samantha Ege

This event is jointly hosted by the University of Southampton Centre for Music Education and Social Justice, the University of York, and Baylor University (USA).

For further details, contact Erin Johnson Williams: e.johnson-williams@soton.ac.uk.