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Joined February 2021
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The French Feminist Mystique rules tonight's @BBCFrontRow. @AdjoaOsei1 discusses Josephine Baker's terrific memoir - published in English for the 1st time. And the Oscar Nom writer/director of The Substance, Coralie Fargeat. 715pm Radio 4📻
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For the first time, Composer of the Week 12pm @BBCRadio3 celebrates the exquisite music of Afro-Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia. The grandson of slaves, he went on to be hailed as the father of Brazilian classical music. With @KateMolleson bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qvv…
ALT 'King D. João VI listening to José Maurício', oil painting by Henrique Bernadelli (1858-1936)
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We're celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with a special reading list, including free to read articles from @AdjoaOsei1 & @breastlessblack, books from @bronaldbyrd, @chelseastieber, @Neake81 and more from the LUP collection. Browse it all via the blog➡️bit.ly/BHM-Reading-List.
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Introducing Journal of #RomanceStudies Vol 23.3. Articles include Maria Manuel Lisboa (@MMLL_Cambridge) on race and gender in the works of José de Alencar and Bernardo Guimarães, and @AdjoaOsei1 explores black Brazil in jazz-age Paris🔗bit.ly/JRS-Vol-23-3 @drjoeford @ILCS_SAS
ALT Journal of Romance Studies Volume 23.3. Journal cover with a square tile with a flower design in the middle. Crossing national and disciplinary boundaries to stimulate new ways of thinking about cultural history and practice. LUP logo and ILCS logos.
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The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre, published by @EdinburghUP, is now out! It features contributions from over 30 scholars and practitioners. Thanks to all involved. The discount code NEW30 provides 30% off. @cs_warden edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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Rob Marshall, the director of “The Little Mermaid,” asked the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to help him with his take on the musical number “Under the Sea.” Here, he discusses the sequence. nyti.ms/3BYlZQo
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The Americas becoming the home of Italian opera; European Modernism becoming key to Cuban identity;
@PeterBrathwaite's vacuum cleaner becoming Toussaint Louverture's sword - a transatlantic ebb and flow of ideas with @AdjoaOsei1 @DRindom @ShahidhaBari bbc.in/3MFRrcv
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This is such a treat - Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, translated by James E. Falen and beautifully read by Rhashan Stone. Each night at 22.45 @BBCRadio4 or catch up @BBCSounds Produced by @MaryWL1 & sound designed @MairBosworth BBC Audio Bristol bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jc2…
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Our new exhibition celebrates St Anne's alumna, Merze Tate; first female African-American member of Oxford University, and a professor and scholar of US diplomacy. See the full exhibit in Tim Gardam House [1/cont] #BlackHistoryMonth #MerzeTate #BlackHistoryMonthUK
ALT Archival material from Merze Tate's student file including admission letter, report card and telegram in an exhibition case.
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Hot off the presses! An extraordinary collection of material from the Black press in Latin America. Collected and organized brilliantly by three incredible scholars (very student friendly). I hope to see courses designed around this volume. @cambUP_History #AfroLatinAmerica.
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Good morning. Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3 - today a new recording of RVW's Lark from Sonoko Miriam Welde, Walter Sickert paints two great conductors, Duke Ellington visits York, a Psalm by Mendelssohn and we mark the centenary of Washington DC born composer George Walker
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Exploring the life & music of Doreen Carwithen, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, & Dorothy Howell on 23 Jan, 6.45 on @BBCRadio3 - featuring the 1st recording of Coleridge-Taylor's Rhapsody by @DrSamanthaEge! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013xs…
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Here, published for the first time, is an extract from Raymond Williams's famous ‘When Was Modernism?’ lecture, delivered in 1987, and taken from the newly published Culture and Politics – the first Williams book for more than three decades to include new material.
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"Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"
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American-born French performer Josephine Baker, who broke boundaries in the 30s with performances mocking colonialism is being interred into the Pantheon. She was also a resistance fighter during World War II. Research fellow @AdjoaOsei1 joins @Emmabarnett bbc.in/3FVhGVV
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Catch up with #NewGenerationThinker @AdjoaOsei1 talking about Afro-Cuban pianist and vocalist Rita Montaner and her contribution to the Parisian jazz age in the 1920s ow.ly/13to50GvtAL @ahrcpress @BBCFreeThinking @BBCRadio3
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Excellent latest episode of @BBCFreeThinking with discussion of Black British theatre-makers & also #NewGenerationThinker @ahrcpress @AdjoaOsei1 on Afro-Cuban singer Rita Montaner
Can't wait 'til 10pm @BBCRadio3? here's the link to hear @blackpoppies with @NaomiPaxton & Nadine Deller @CSSDLondon championing Black British theatre-makers + #NewGenerationThinker @ahrcpress @AdjoaOsei1 @trincollcam on the Afro-Cuban singer Rita Montaner
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09z01y…
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Akala, Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Okri and more pick 20 classic books by writers of colour theguardian.com/books/2021/o…
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Muitas vezes vendendo comida fresca para marinheiros famintos, as negras de tabuleiro que trabalhavam na ribeira portuária facilitavam o embarque de fugitivos nos navios, permitindo-lhes escapar da escravidão por mar.
Thomas Waterman Wood pintou este retrato raro em 1858.
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