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The African American Folklorist – Wanda G Addison
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Featured Folklorist Wanda G Addison, PhD In this episode I speak with February’s African American Folklorist of the month is Wanda G. Addison. Addison, an African American folklorist, and Professor of English sat on the board of the American Folklore Society, and through storytelling, social groups and community practices use her folklore experience for…
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AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKLORIST DOC SERIES EP6
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The African American Folklorist Doc Series Ep 6 title – “Who Knows Our Story Better Than Us” Guest – Langston Collin Wilkins – Folklorist & Ethnomusicologist.
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AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKLORIST DOC SERIES EP5
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The African American Folklorist Doc Series Ep 4 title – “Who Is Black Enough?” Guest Gabriel Greaves – Scholar, Activist & Historian
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Hot Supper
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Published/Written by Lamont Jack Pearley In the late 1980’s throughout the 1990’s I attended several social gatherings from the south to the northeast in which I had no idea, that in fact, I was living a piece of history and tradition shared by my ancestors. This living history and traditional space was once called…
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Shirley Moody Turner – African American Educator, Writer and Folklorist
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley I have the honor to speak with Shirley Moody Turner, an associate professor of English and African American Studies. She is the author of Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation, co-editor of Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon, and has recently signed on as editor of…
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Zora Neale Hurston – Episode 3 African American Folklorists, Writers and the Blues
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Published By Lamont Jack Pearley Talking Bout The Blues Video series African American Folklorist, Writers and the Blues. This series highlights African American writers, folklorists, ethnologist, composers and playwriters, that documented, described and flat out canvased the Black experience through their works, connecting the dots between the Blues, Spirituals, Work songs, Prison songs and…
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African American Writers, Folklorists and The Blues
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode we will be looking into and discussing Eileen Southern, a scholar of Renaissance and African-American music and the first black woman to be appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard University, and her works. After that, I have the honor to speak with Shirley Moody Turner,…