Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.: "What I Did with Musicology and What It Gave Me Back”

Thursday, September 19, 2024 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
The Prima Memorial Lecture Series presents Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Guggenheim Fellow, musicologist, and Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He will discuss his 30 years of multimodal inquiry as a scholar, author, musician, teacher, and community activist as a route of possibility for an academic career in music. His work includes writing books such as his latest, Who Hears Here: On Black Music Pasts and Present (2022); and consulting for projects such as the 2020 Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary, The Apollo: The Soul of American Culture. Sponsored by Tulane University Special Collections and the Gia Maione Prima Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Undergraduate Research and the Newcomb Department of Music at Tulane University. Free and open to the public. For more information about the lecture, email mweber3@tulane.edu.

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