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Farah Jasmine Griffin | New Shades of Blue: Black Women Singers in the Seventies

Wednesday, Nov 12 5:00p
Penn Museum Philadelphia, PA

2014-2015 Penn Humanities Forum on Color University of Pennsylvania
In the same years that black women writers were emerging as major innovators in American literature, black women singers like Syreeta Wright, Minnie Riperton, and Deniece Williams were forging new pathways in American music, rethinking traditional ideas about race and women's vocality. Farah Jasmine Griffin, whose latest book is Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II, will play some of the great
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Penn Museum
3260 South St.
Philadelphia, PA 19194
(215) 898-4000
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