Wednesday, April 17, 2019
6:30pm-7:30pm ET
Sweeten Alumni House or Online

Join Penn Professor Guthrie Ramsey for an interactive discussion of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Theodore Witcher’s Love Jones, and Professor Ramsey's article MUZING NEW HOODS, MAKING NEW IDENTITIES Film, Hip-Hop Culture, and Jazz Music .
Both films are available on a number of platforms, including Amazon Prime, YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play.

This program, free and open to all Penn alumni, is co-hosted by the Center for Africana Studies and Penn Alumni Education, and is co-sponsored by The Black Alumni Society and Penn Spectrum Programs.

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About Dr. Ramsey

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is a pianist, composer and the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop, African American Music (Grove Kindle Editions) and Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., with Melanie Zeck and Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., The Transformation of Black Music: The Rhythms, the Songs and the Ships of the African Diaspora. He is currently completing two new books, a collection of mid-career essays titled Who Hears Here? and Soundproof: Black Music, Magic and Racial Intimacies, a history of African American music from the slave-era to the present.

As the leader of the band Dr. Guy’s MusiQology, he has released three recordings and has performed internationally at legendary venues such as The Blue Note in New York. Among his other musical works is “Someone Is Listening,” a commission written with poet Elizabeth Alexander and commemorating the 100th anniversary of the NAACP. His documentary film Amazing: The Tests and Triumph of Bud Powell was a selection of the BlackStar Film Festival in 2015. He co-curated the 2010 exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institute and was a contributing scholar to the Museum of Modern Art’s recent exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works. Ramsey is the founder and editor of the popular blog, Musiqology.com, which takes on musical issues of the day. He received a doctorate in musicology from the University of Michigan and taught at Tufts University before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1998. He was a Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow at Dartmouth College, a DuBois Institute Fellow at Harvard University, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and Harvard University.