CAS/MillerComm Lecture: "Getting Their Hands on the Tune: From the Front Porch to the Library of Congress and Back Again" by Stephen Wade

• Event Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
• Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

"Getting Their Hands on the Tune: From the Front Porch to the Library of Congress and Back Again"
Stephen Wade
George A. Miller Visiting Scholar, Musician and Author, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience

Award winning banjoist and author Stephen Wade explores how American music reinvents itself as individuals reshape the songs and tunes of a common, shared repertoire. Through live music and images, Wade will discuss this meeting of the personal and historical: how in the act of putting their hands on a traditional tune, gifted players transform it while connecting it to its history and to their own communities.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the University of Illinois Press in conjunction with the Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Dance, Department of English, Department of Theatre, Division of Musicology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, School of Music, Sousa Archive and Center for American Music, Spurlock Museum, Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival, and Community Center for the Arts (C4A).