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Saturday, March 24
 

2:15pm

Roundtable: Newark’s Finest: Reflections on Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston’s engrossing “homegoing” funeral service was a potent reminder of her local New Jersey roots and instantiation in traditional black Baptist gospel ritual, even as the service itself drove home how global, hybrid and ubiquitous her cross-over approach to superstardom had been. This roundtable considers the impact of Whitney Houston on singing, on music styles and formats, and on the business itself; and her contribution to the way we think about race, gender, class, and post-civil rights / post-soul politics.

With: Nelson George, Michael A. Gonzales, Margo Jefferson,
Scott Poulson-Bryant, and Danyel Smith

Moderator: Jason King

Speakers

Nelson George

Nelson George is a author/filmmaker who documents and celebrates the black experience in America. Nelson has written the critically acclaimed music histories The Death of Rhythm & Blues and Hip Hop America, plus the current music themed novel The Plot Against Hip Hop. He directed the HBO telefilm Life Support that starred Queen Latifah. He also has two documentaries on national cable channels this spring: Brooklyn Boheme on Showtime and The Announcement on ESPN. His web site is...
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Michael A. Gonzales

Michael A. Gonzales has written cover stories for Wax Poetics, Vibe, One More Robot, The London Telegraph, XXL, Stop Smiling and The Source. His essays have been cited in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2008, 2009 and 2010. In addition, he blogs about pop culture @ Blackadelicpop.blogspot.com and lives in Brooklyn.

Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson is a cultural critic and the author of On Michael Jackson (Vintage). She was a staff writer for The New York Times for 12 years, and received a Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Her reviews and essays have appeared in Bookforum, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Grand Street, The Nation, and Ms. Currently, she teaches writing at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College.

Jason King

(EMP Pop Conference Producer for Clive Davis Institute). Jason King is the Artistic Director of The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, an innovative leadership institute for aspiring young music entrepreneurs at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU - and its founding faculty member. He has been a pop music critic for magazines like Vibe and Blender as well as a producer and manager. He is the author of The Michael Jackson Treasures and Blue Magic (forthcoming from Duke University...
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Scott Poulson-Bryant

Scott Poulson-Bryant is a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s History of American Civilization program, where he is working on a dissertation analyzing performances of race and gender in 1970s African American musicals. One of the co-founding editors of VIBE magazine, his books include HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America (Doubleday, 2006) and The VIPs: a Novel (Broadway Books, 2011).

Danyel Smith

Danyel Smith is the former editor of Billboard magazine. She also runs a popular tumblr known as The Smithian. Smith is the former Chief Content Officer of Vive Media Group/former editor-in-chief of Vibe and vibe.com. She is a former editor-at-large for Time Inc. She has written for Elle, Time, Essence, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Spin, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the New York Times. Smith is also the author of the novels More Like Wrestling and Bliss.

Saturday March 24, 2012 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor (60 Washington Square South, New York, NY)
  10th Floor

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