#4080 The Geopolitics of Music: Protests and Anthems

Thursday, Octorber, 24, 2024  10:10am - 12:00 pm

#4080 The Geopolitics of Music: Protests and Anthems

Instructor Dr. Dick Fairley

Urban blues and country blues, as the names imply, are distinct subgenres of music. Country blues developed
in rural areas, including those in Mississippi, Texas, the Appalachian Mountains and other locales. Urban blues
developed in northern cities of the United States as a byproduct of the Great Migration of southern Black people
who migrated to escape the severe discrimination of the South and to seek better economic opportunities in the
North. More than six million Black people migrated from South to North between 1916 and 1970, which
resulted in a geopolitical transformation of both North and South.

Dick Fairley: PhD in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from UCLA.  He worked as an engineer, university professor, consultant, and as a jazz disk jockey at KRCC.

$25 PILLAR Members / $40 Nonmembers