Buchan Lecture - Remembering and Reclaiming Folk

Buchan Lecture - Remembering and Reclaiming Folk
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2022 David Buchan Lecture

Remembering and reclaiming folk traditions can be a powerful tool of empowerment for everyday people, especially those who are marginalized. Drawing examples from storytelling traditions of the African diaspora, and particularly the Caribbean, the lecture will demonstrate the value of folk traditions for navigating everyday life, positing that now more than ever people across the globe need tools to traverse our hypermodern and increasingly disconnected world.

Frustrated with the field of ethnomusicology, in 2014, Danielle Brown, PhD left a tenure-track position at Syracuse University to start My People Tell Stories, a company based on the premise that people of colour need to tell and interpret their own stories. Since then, much of her work has sought to decolonize music studies by focusing on the use of indigenous pedagogical strategies to teach Caribbean music and other BIPOC musical traditions.

This event will be in person and live streamed.

Speaker
Danielle Brown
Hosted by
Elphinstone Institute
Venue
The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Floor 7, Meeting Room 1 (Craig Suite) / Online
Contact

Free but please book your place by e-mailing elphinstone@abdn.ac.uk or by telephone on 01224 272996. If you are joining the event online, please let us know and we will send you the Zoom link.