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[wd_asp id=1]How Gladys Bentley Bridges a Century: A Conversation with Shirlette Ammons
Merritt photo credit Yasaman Baghban; Ammons photo credit John Vettese
How Gladys Bentley
Bridges A century
A conversation with Shirlette ammons
The "Archives and Creative Process: Blues Women and Rosetta Records" Bass Connections team presents a conversation with Shirlette Ammons. Ammons is a musician, songwriter, producer, poet and sought-after collaborator on music, film, and tv projects across a multitude of genres. In 2013, she released Twilight for Gladys Bentley, which she describes as a 're-imagining' of the trail-blazing blues singer and bulldagger. Ammons and Duke practitioner-in-residence Tift Merritt will be in conversation about Bentley's continuing significance in our world today.
Lunch will be provided.
Hosted by the Forum for Scholars and Publics (Forum @ FHI), with gratitude for the support of Bass Connections, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, the Social Science Research Institute, and Duke Arts.
This event is free and open to the public. Directions and parking info here
Registration is not required, but we are grateful if you let us know you'll be attending.
Speakers
Shirlette Ammons
Shirlette Ammons is a musician, songwriter, producer (music, TV, film), poet, and, according to music journalist Grayson Currin, an all-around "Black queer Southern truth teller." Ammons' latest album Spectacles, co-produced with Phil Cook, is an 11-track examination of the duality between being objectified by the proverbial, patriarchal, white gaze and…...
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Tift Merritt is a Grammy-nominated musician who wanted to be a writer until her father taught her guitar chords and Percy Sledge songs. She has toured around the world with her sonic short stories and garnered a reputation for making her own way and setting an interesting artistic table. The…...
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