When:
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, Pick-Laudati Auditorium, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Caitlin Kelley Burney
(847) 491-3230
Group: Department of Art History
Category: Academic, Fine Arts, Lectures & Meetings, Multicultural & Diversity
Winter 2025 Warnock Lecture, presented by the Department of Art History
Sangoma: On Miriam Makeba’s Healing Arts
"In 1988, Miriam Makeba released Sangoma, an album that significantly differs from her earlier recordings. It features predominantly a cappella women’s voices, whose harmonization channels Makeba’s memories of the music she learned from her mother, an initiated Swazi healer. Produced in the wake of profound personal loss, the album’s relatively limited airplay serves as a departure point for reimagining recorded sound’s capacity to restructure the multiple temporalities of sonic, spiritual, and visual media. Makeba is an exemplary and singular pan-African figure, and tracing a conceptual matrilineage through her reanimates solidarity’s possibilities."
Lecture: 5:00–6:30pm
Reception: 6:30–7:30pm