All programs will take place in the Event Oval in the Diana Center at Barnard College

Friday, February 13th

Opening Reception: The 12-Bar Blues

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Reception with light refreshments, followed by opening remarks by symposium chairs and a class on the origins and evolution of the 12-bar blues as a song form. Barnard’s own a cappella group

Bacchantae will help develop a greater understanding of the mysterious origins of the song form and the implications therein.

The BARNARD COLLEGE and COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

BLUES SYMPOSIUM

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The Collection of Blues 78-RPM Records 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Amanda Petrusich, Nathan Salsburg, Gayle Wald, Sonnet Retman New York Times popular music critic Amanda Petrusich, author of "Do Not Sell At Any

Price,” and Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Alan Lomax Archive and guitarist, as well as “Shout, Sister, Shout!” author Gayle Wald and University of Washington professor of

African-American Studies Sonnet Retman discuss the curation and collection of blues 78s.

Saturday, February 14th

Talkin’ Bout Mojo: Reconstructing The 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Sophie Abramowitz, Parker Fishel, David Beal

Since 2009, Parker Fishel (CC ’10), Sophie Abramowitz (BC ’11), and a rotating group of students at WKCR-FM, including David Beal (CC ’15), have catalogued, preserved, and

restored field recordings of The 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Using new research and oral history interviews, this presentation reconstructs the festival within the historical

and living tradition of the blues.

The Bessie Smith Salon: From Bessie to Bearden

3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Farah Griffin, Bob O'Meally, Daphne Brooks, Emily Lordi

Moderator: Monica Miller A panel discussion with professors Daphne Brooks, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Emily Lordi, and Robert O'Meally. Professor Monica Miller will moderate. Panelists will present and

discuss Bessie Smith's musical importance, as well as the broader cultural resonance of her work in 20th-century African-American art forms.

We thank our sponsors: Professor Aaron A. Fox, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard Student Life, Critical Consortium of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University, the

Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Warner Music Group.

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