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Hip Hop to Opera via Negro Spirituals

Sunday 13th September, 2020 – Online

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Queen Nzingha Lecture 85

A musical journey covering the hidden history and links between some of the most popular and obscure musical forms. Hip Hop is a billion dollar world wide industry and cultural norm while Opera is seen as an elite art form, but what do both of them have to do with Negro Spirituals ? Dr Kimberley Hawkins will take you on an audio-visual tour including live opera singing, ‘lining’ and rap samples.

Topics will include

-Negro Spirituals; a form of resistance, decoded
-African roots of Opera
-Voice as a weapon
-Life as a Black Opera Singer
-Civil Rights in Music: The many untold stories
-Plus Q & A

Queen Nzinga was an African Queen who fought against the European invasion of southern Africa (Congo/Angola). The Queen Nzinga lecture series feature Black female academics / holders of expert knowledge, speaking on topics of their choice on a monthly basis. The Nzinga lecture series will provide a regular platform for women of African descent to highlight important issues in an academic setting.
See previous Queen Nzingha lectures on Black History Walks YouTube Channel  – A National Association of Black Saturday Schools and Black History Walks  production

About the Speaker

Dr Kimberley Hawkins was born in Chicago and raised in Aurora, Illinois. She earned her Masters degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of California in Santa Barbara. She started her opera career while in graduate school and sang oratorio and concert repertoire with local orchestras. She has performed in concerts/recitals in New York, Chicago, London and Paris.

Other coming events from Black History Walks

 www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

-African Women Resistance Leaders: Political and Spiritual. (Course)
-Titian Sex ,Race and Murder, the Black image in art
-Inter-generational trauma in Haiti and Louisiana
-Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Caribbean: Barbados
-Black British Race Riots of 1919 and current relevance
-Medical Apartheid: European experiments on Black Bodies Part 1 and 2
-What were Black people doing in World War 1 ?
-The Black History of video games
-Hidden History of the Real McCoy
-African Superheroes Day

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