Washington, D.C.-based writer, curator and activist Natalie Hopkinson discusses her work amplifying the voices of Black and Indigenous cultures that face erasure throughout the world. Drawing on her oral history and archival projects that span Washington's go-go music, Guyanese painting and poetry, and African photography, she describes how teams of artists, schools, libraries, civil society organizations, governments and museums are building a world where everyone is heard, everyone belongs, and everyone is free. Hopkinson is associate professor of media, democracy and society at American University and author of "Go-Go Live" and "A Mouth is Always Muzzled." In 2020, she co-led a coalition that advocated for and achieved D.C. Law 23-71 "Go-Go Official Music of the District of Columbia Act." The Botkin Lecture Series is part of the American Folklife Center's ongoing public programming activities highlighting the fields of folklife, ethnomusicology, oral history and related disciplines, foregrounding its archival holdings, and fulfilling its congressionally-mandated mission.
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27 июн 2024
