Tavia Nyong'o Colloquim October 22, 2010

Old Cabell Hall room 107

Tavia Nyong'o is associate professor of Performance Studies at New York University. His research interests include the intersections of race and sexuality, visual art and performance, and cultural history. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), which investigates musical, aesthetic, and political practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
(Presented by the University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music Critical and Comparative Studies )

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