In August 2020, the Dean of Faculty and the Endowment Administration Office at Dartmouth College approved the music department's creation of the Leonard J. Reade Distinguished Lecture on Music and Racial Justice. These annual lectures are supported by the Leonard J. Reade 1917 Institute for American Music.
"Sacred Noise: Improvisation, Dissonance, and the Divine in Black Music"
This talk explores Black music making as a spiritual quest and ritual practice through which participants deploy improvisation, dissonance, and musical joy as strategies of cultural affirmation and social defiance.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
12:00 p.m. coffee and reception
12:30 p.m. lecture
East Reading Room, Baker-Berry Library
Free and open to the public