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Skirball Salon: What does decolonization sound like?

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George Lewis (Artistic Director, International Contemporary Ensemble) asks, in his 2023 text Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today, what “decolonization might sound like”; and he has curated, in the Ensemble’s “Composing While Black,” an evening attuned to these sounds. 

In advance of “Composing While Black” at NYU Skirball, join a panel of scholars and artists to explore the innovations of Afrodiasporic sound, intersections of Blackness and performance, and the radical forms of resistance these embodied practices offer in our reading, listening and organizing. 

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