
Dr. Claudrena N. Harold will trace the evolution of gospel music while considering how it has responded to pressing social issues, including poverty, racial inequality, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and political corruption.
The event will also feature:
- A short interview and Q&A moderated by Dr. Wallace Best, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University
- A brief post-lecture reception and author meet and greet.
Claudrena N. Harold is the Edward Stettinius Professor of History and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the author of three books, The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942, New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, and When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras. She has coedited two volumes, The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration and Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity.
As a part of her ongoing work on the history of African American life at UVA, she has co-directed with Kevin Everson eleven short films that have screened at film festivals and museums domestically and internationally. In 2024, Video Data Bank released Can You Move Like This: Black Fire films by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold. |
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This event is free and open to the public and will also be streamed on YouTube. |
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