2023 Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture
A Love Supreme: The (Rhetorical) Legacy of John Coltrane
Location
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Date & Time
September 14, 2023, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Description
***This event is organized by the McNair Scholars Program. Original event posted here.***
The UMBC McNair Scholars Program will present the 5th Annual Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture, named in honor of Cynthia M. Hill, former UMBC Associate Provost & Founding UMBC McNair Director, and Thomas Robinson, PhD., Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and McNair Research Methods Faculty for over 30 years.
A Love Supreme: The (Rhetorical) Legacy of John Coltrane
Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor, English, UMBC
Jazz musician John Coltrane’s oeuvre, including his iconic album A Love Supreme, represented a synthesis of competing discourses and sensibilities in Black America: that of moderate integrationists of the Civil Rights Movement and the emerging concerns of countercultural Afrocentrism. In this concert/talk, I argue that such syntheses propelled Coltrane’s larger status as a cultural symbol of Black innovation and aesthetics through his role as a purveyor of epistemic sonic schema–a body of sonic material that produces knowledge–as an aural analog to theorist Kenneth Burke’s critical practice of “perspective by incongruity” as well as the communication of doubled meanings associated with African American rhetorical traditions popularly known as signifying.
Featuring special guests: The UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matt Belzer.
For more information & sponsorship opportunities, please contact Michael A. Hunt, Program Director, UMBC McNair Scholars Program, michaelahunt@umbc.edu.
Organized by the McNair Scholars Program and cosponsored by: the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Department of Music; the Department of Education; the College of Engineering and Information Technology; the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences; the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; the Division of Professional Studies; the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; the School of Social Work; the Center for Women in Technology; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; the Department of American Studies; the Individualized Study Program; the Department of English; the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; the Department of Africana Studies; the Office of Alumni Engagement; and the Initiatives for Identity,
