GREG TATE & ARTHUR JAFA
In Conversation:
THE SOUL AESTHETIC: BARKLEY HENDRICKS & BLACK MUSIC
Saturday, 2/16/08, 7 pm
Auditorium at the Nasher Museum of Art
Free
Greg Tate
Greg Tate is a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition, a staff writer at the Village Voice and the leader of the Burnt Sugar Chamber Ensemble. His writings on art, music, and culture have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, and Artforum.
His books include: Flyboy In The Buttermilk; Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience; and Everything But The Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture. He is currently working on a biography about James Brown.
Arthur Jafa
Cultural critic, visual artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa, in his work, explores Black cultural politics, cultural nationalism, and film. He shot Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, Spike Lee's Crooklyn, and Manthia Diawara's Rouch in Reverse. Jafa currently lectures at Bard.