Musical Reparations (w/Big Freedia & Hannah Mayree)

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Let's get straight to it, Classmates! Today on ART CLASS, we are honored to be talking with a bonafide legend! Whom you ask? How about the ambassador for New Orleans bounce music, who's also an iconic entrepreneur, and a fierce advocate for racial justice and queer rights? Yes, that's right, on this episode we will be chatting with the Queen Diva herself, BIG FREEDIA (0:13:55)!!! 🤯 And as if that weren't exciting enough, we're also bringing you the next installment of our Kinfolk series with Hannah Mayree of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project (0:42:28). In this first conversation of two, Hannah and Paige talk all about BBRP and their mission to reconnect Black people with the banjo, an incredibly important part of our musical and cultural history. All that, plus the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:39:11) and a special PB&J for all you soap opera fans (0:59:14). Take your seats, y'all, because class is in session!

***Oh, and if you're in NYC on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30pm, please come check us out live at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium. Rumor has it that we'll be joined by another spectacular, legendary, iconic guest. For more details, go here. We hope you'll come hang out and have some fun with us!***

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)

Guests: Big Freedia, Hannah Mayree

Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Big Freedia (Website) (Instagram)

Black Banjo Reclamation Project (Website)

Fresh, Bold and So Def Symposium at Lincoln Center (Website)

Hip Hop Education Center (Website)

Tray Wellington Band (Website)

Generations with Jonelle Allen and Vivica A. Fox

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Syllabus

Ashley N. Payne (2024), “Hip Hop, identity, & Black girlhood: how Black girls (re)construct racial and gender identity through Hip Hop”

Ashley N. Payne & Aria S. Halliday (2023), “From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women”

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