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Music Appreciation Series with Dr. Edward Markward The Nationalists Continued: Zoltán Kodály & Béla Bartók Broadcasted via Crowdcast on August 19, 2021
Music Appreciation Series with Dr. Edward Markward: Nationalists Continued
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Bestselling author (and Newporter) Bing West, a combat Marine and assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan, has written a dozen books about our recent wars. His book with Defense Secretary General Jim Mattis was the #1 NYT bestseller last year. His new book is The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War. Like The Caine Mutiny, it captures the drama of leadership under mounting stress. The reviews on Amazon are remarkable. Bing will discuss the novel as a metaphor for an ill-conceived war. Broadcasted via Crowscast on July 28, 2021
The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War by Bing West
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Presented in partnership with the Newport Middle Passage Port Marker Project, Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes will explore how the dynamics underlying the fundamental gendered/raced/sexual relationships that were created under colonialism exist in the same form in global patriarchal capitalism and pop culture, including mainstream music and pornography. She will also explore contemporary Black feminist literature which critiques foundational Black feminist thought on this subject. In an effort to bridge the two, she will analyze media representations of the Black female body in the context of human rights and sexual rights, as this offers global and historical perspective without minimizing the agency of those whose bodies have historically been exploited for profit. Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes is the Curator of Social History at the New Bedford Whaling Museum where she is responsible for curation of exhibitions, exhibit installation, historical research related to exhibitions, publications, lectures, symposia, collections guides, interpretive public programs and public outreach. She has documented and done archaeological work on Native American, African American, and Caribbean histories, culture and landscapes, and has done anthropological fieldwork in Caribbean Rastafarian communities, in West African Vodun communities, and Northeastern Native American communities. Before coming to the New Bedford Whaling Museum in August of 2017, she taught for nine years as an anthropology professor in the Departments of Psychology and Human Development, American Studies and Political Science at Wheelock College in Boston and taught as an adjunct professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Salve Regina University, and a Master of Arts and Doctoral degree from the University of Connecticut. Broadcasted via Crowdcast on July 21, 2021
The Colonization of Black Female Bodies
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Music Appreciation Series with Dr. Edward Markward Between The Wars: Part IV: The Americans featuring Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, William Grant Still Broadcasted via Crowdcast on July 14, 2021
Music Appreciation Series with Dr. Edward Markward Between The Wars: Part IV: The Americans
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Presented in partnership with the Newport Middle Passage Port Marker Project, poets Afua Ansong and Jacqueline Johnson will share their poetry and discuss their creative process. Through their work, they help us to question and explore themes of identity, transition, and belonging. Afua Ansong is a Ghanain American scholar and artist who writes poetry and teaches contemporary and traditional West African dance. A 2018 and 2015 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes its Own) recipient, she writes about the challenges of the African immigrant identity in the United States, exploring themes of transition, citizenship, and identity. Her work can be seen or is forthcoming in FOLIO, TAB, The Seventh Wave, PUBLIC POOL, Vinyl, Main Review, joINT, Frontier, and others. Jacqueline Johnson is a multi-disciplined artist creating in poetry, fiction writing and fiber arts. She is the author of A Woman’s Season, on Main Street Rag Press and A Gathering of Mother Tongues, published by White Pine Press, and is the winner of the Third Annual White Pine Press Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in: “Show Us Your Papers,” on Main Street Rag press, 2020, “Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era,” Routledge 2020, “About Place Journal”, the “Langston Hughes Review,” and The Slow Down, American Public Media, October 16, 2019. She is a Cave Canem fellow, VONA fellow, and Black Earth Institute fellow 2018–2021. Works in progress include a novel The Privilege of Memory and How to Stop a Hurricane, a collection of short stories. She is a graduate of New York University and the City University of New York. A native of Philadelphia, PA., she resides in Brooklyn, New York. Broadcasted via Crowdcast on July 8, 2021
Readings with Poets Afua Ansong & Jacqueline Johnson
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At the Redwood Doug Fitch Then and Now: Tales from the Big Chair
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Editor Norm Desmarais as he discusses his recent publication, The Road to Yorktown: The French Campaigns in the American Revolution, 1780-1783 Broadcasted via Crowdcast on June 23, 2021
The Road to Yorktown: The French Campaigns in the American Revolution, 1780-1783
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Dr. Edward Markward continues his series “Between the Wars: Part III: The Soviet Union” featuring Serge Prokofiev and Dimitri Shostakovich Broadcaster via Crowdcast on June 16, 2021
Music Appreciation Series with Dr. Edward Markward Between The Wars: Part II Soviet Union
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"Between The Wars: Part II" featuring Kurt Weill. Paul Hindemith and Carl Orff Broadcasted via Crowdcast on May 19, 2021
Music Appreciation Series with Dr. Edward Markward Between The Wars: Part II Germany
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