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Alice Randall: My Black Country

2024-06-07

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My Black Country is a recent release by Alice Randall,  award-winning professor, songwriter, and author. In the book, Randall recounts her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. My Black Country celebrates the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture through the work of DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries.

 

Register HERE for this online event hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Randall will be joined in conversation by Steven Lewis, Curator of Music and the Performing Arts, and Kelly Navies, Oral History Museum Specialist.

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Alice Randall: My Black Country

Organizer

National Museum of African American History and Culture
Website
https://nmaahc.si.edu/

Location

Online

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Office Location:

1258 Ortiz SE

#304

Albuquerque, NM 87108

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Phone: (505) 407-6784

Email: info@nmblc.org

Date

Jun 07 2024
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Time

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Alice Randall: My Black Country

My Black Country is a recent release by Alice Randall,  award-winning professor, songwriter, and author. In the book, Randall recounts her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. My Black Country celebrates the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture through the work of DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries.

 

Register HERE for this online event hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Randall will be joined in conversation by Steven Lewis, Curator of Music and the Performing Arts, and Kelly Navies, Oral History Museum Specialist.

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