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Yours Truly, John
by Joyce Stubblefield Patillo
Arkansas Author Event!
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Meet and Greet Book Signing!
Time: 2:00 PM CST
Pyramid Art, Books and Custom Framing
1001 Wright Ave, Little Rock, AR 72206
501-372-5824
Conscious Indiscretions
by "Saige" Annette Jarrett
Arkansas Author Event!
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Meet and Greet Book Signing!
Time: 2:00 PM CST
Pyramid Art, Books and Custom Framing
1001 Wright Ave, Little Rock, AR 72206
501-372-5824
The Inheritance of Amaya Montgomery
by Geletta Shavers
Arkansas Author Event!
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Meet and Greet Book Signing!
Time: 3:30 PM CST
Pyramid Art, Books and Custom Framing
1001 Wright Ave, Little Rock, AR 72206
501-372-5824
The Inheritance of Amaya Montgomery
by Ashton Hall
Arkansas Author Event!
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Meet and Greet Book Signing!
Time: 2:00 PM CST
Pyramid Art, Books and Custom Framing
1001 Wright Ave, Little Rock, AR 72206
501-372-5824
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South Side Impresarios
How Race Women Tranformed Chicago's Classical music Scene
by Samantha Ege
About the Book
Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of music making.
Saturday, June 15, 2024 | 5:30 p.m.
ABOUT STAY BLACK AND DIE
In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He analyzes the works of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Marvin Gaye, Octavia E. Butler, and Kendrick Lamar to show how black cultural practices and aesthetics abstract and reveal the lost mother through performance. Whether attributing Douglass’s intellect to his matrilineage, reading Gaye’s falsetto singing voice as a move to interpolate black female vocality, or examining the women in Ellison’s life who encouraged his aesthetic interests, Durham demonstrates that melancholy becomes the catalyst for genius and genius in turn is a signifier of the maternal. Using psychoanalysis to develop a theory of racial melancholy while “playing” with affect theory to investigate racial aesthetics, Durham theorizes the role of the feminine, especially the black maternal, in the production of black masculinist genius.