“Chasing the Blues: A Guide to America’s Music” Returns to NOVA

November 15, 2022 / Music, Arts & Other Pretty Stuff

Join us for “DEI-Empowering Students Through the Diversity of Music,” Thursday, Nov. 17, from 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Annandale Campus, CA-302.

Speakers and authors Josephine Matyas and Craig jones of “Chasing the Blues: A Guide to America’s Music” return to NOVA. This event will explore the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experiences of brutal oppression. They used the power of music to survive, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular music. Students will learn that, historically, this art form grew to involve all races and ethnicities, becoming one of society’s first and most successful examples of diversity.   

Flyer: Event made possible by the InNOVAtion Grant, DEI Empowering Students Through the Diversity of Music: "Chasing the Blues: A Guide to America's Music" explores the roots of the bloues, the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded int heir shared experience of brutal oppression> They used the power of music to survive that oppression, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular music. Guest speakers, authors Josephine Matyas and Craig Jones. Thursday, Nov. 17, from 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m., Annandale Campus, CA-302

Submitted by:
Connie Robinson, Enrollment Mgt. Coord., CMRobinson@nvcc.edu