Black Banjoists’ History and Music with Maya Brown-Boateng

Center for the Arts in Society Hospitality Initiative

October 24, 2024 - 12:30pm

Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts

Please come & join Dr. Alexa Woloshyn’s World Music class to learn about Black banjoists’ history and music with Maya Brown-Boateng.

Brown-Boateng is a classic banjoist and a PhD student in Ethnomusicology and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include the contemporary manifestations of blackface minstrelsy, nineteenth-century African American music, women in music history, banjo performance, and the perpetuation of Blackness through banjo histories and sounds.

This event is sponsored by the School of Music.