Musical Aromas: A Listening PartySalonIn-Person
The fiftieth anniversary of the release of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life will provide an occasion for us to think about what it is to listen to music. Is listening ever really just listening? How is the full ensemble of the senses involved in what we generally consider to be an aural experience? How is the very idea of the full ensemble of the senses - and the very idea of ensemble itself - expanded by Wonder? How does Wonder expand our musical taste? What is it to wonder? What is the sense of wonder? Let's wonder about all of this together.
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Dinner & refreshments included
Limited to 18 teachers
Fred Moten
Fred Moten is a distinguished teacher, critic, and poet whose groundbreaking work bridges Black cultural studies, performance, critical theory, and poetry. A professor of performance studies at New York University, Moten was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020 for his contributions to understanding the intersection of experimental art and insurgent social movements. Over his quarter-century career, he has authored theoretical texts and poetry collections, coauthoring the influential The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013) with Stefano Harney and writing The Feel Trio, a finalist for the National Book Award. Beyond serving on academic journal boards, his artistic collaborations have appeared at global institutions like the Tate Modern, and in 2020 he received the Stephen E. Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society.