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Indiana University, Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC)

Reclaiming the Right to Rock : Black Experiences in Rock Music Collection, 2008-2010

46 video files (HD QuickTime) (21 hours, 45 minutes)
This collection consists of documentation and one-on-one interviews from the AAAMC's two-day conference on Black rock hosted on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus on November 13-14, 2009. The conference and related activities were open to local and regional musicians, scholars, students, and brought together Black rock musicians from different generations and regions with music critics and scholars to discuss the socio-political history, musical developments, and the future of Black rock.
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Session 1. "What Is Rock? Definition and Roots," 2009 November 13 3 video files (HD QuickTime) (3 hours, 54 minutes)

This panel examines the following broad areas: (1) the ways in which African American rock musicians conceive of and define rock as a musical genre; (2) how rock is situated within the broader spectrums of African American music and American popular music; (3) the social and political context for the emergence of this music; and (4) the role of rock in African American community life. Video files consist of 14 sec. calibration pattern and 117 minutes of footage from main camera and 117 minutes of simultaneously recorded footage from side camera.

  1. 1. Conference Sessions, 2009 November 13 and 14