Graduate Student Workshop: Sonic Archives and Vernacular Historiography
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Description
*This workshop is only open to University of Toronto graduate students*
Join acclaimed scholars and cultural critics Professor Florence Dore (English Department, University of North Carolina) and Professor Eric Lott (American Studies, City University of New York) for a discussion of music, text and method. What constitutes a vernacular archive and how does one approach it as a historian, as a critic, and as a researcher? What is the relationship between theory, method and object and how does each inform the other in the practices of critical engagement? Please bring your projects, your questions, and your provocations to this graduate workshops. We look forward to the conversation!
You can find samples of recent work by professors Lott and Dore here:
- Read Dore's article titled "Good for Nothing: Lorrie Moore's Maternal Aesthetic and the Return to Form" here: https://post45.org/2020/12/dore-good-for-nothing/
- Read Lott's article titled "Back Door Man: Howlin' Wolf and the Sound of Jim Crow" here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/450012
Speaker: Florence Dore (University of North Carolina) and Eric Lott (City University of New York Graduate Center)