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Musicology Colloquium Series Presents: Listening for Enslaved Women in Slavery’s Archive by Maria Ryan

Mendel Library Reading Room

African and African-descended women appear fleetingly and anonymously as musicians and listeners in physical sources created during slavery, what we might call the traditional historical record. When they do appear, they are usually represented as dancers and as singers. Sometimes they are extravagantly dressed, sometimes almost nude. They listen on the edges of rooms, they ...