A Symposium on New South Sounds and Culture

Musicians, artists, scholars and critics celebrate the sounds and culture of the New South at a symposium Friday and Saturday, May 8-9, in McCosh Hall, Room 50 and Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, examining rock musicians, artists, scholars, politicians, spiritual figures and critics that emerged from the American Southeast during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The symposium also marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Allman Brothers Band, the influential Southern music group. Symposium participants will examine the significance of the vanguard art of the Allman Brothers and the generation of Southern postmodernists inspired by them.

The event is presented by the Program in American Studies and organized by music critic and 2008-09 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies Kandia Crazy Horse.

Schedule

Friday, May 8

Keynote Address

• Stanley Booth
  Booth, author of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones and Rhythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South, pays tribute to the late Jerry Wexler, the legendary Atlantic Records music producer who worked with artists such as Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin.

Saturday, May 9

Panel

• Camara Holloway
  Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
• Arthur Jafa Fielder
  Filmmaker; cinematographer for the movies Crooklyn and Daughters of the Dust
• Ned Sublette
  Musician; author of The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
• Charles Hughes
  Doctoral student in history, University of Wisconsin-Madison