Check out the article published by CTNOW regarding the upcoming "Blackstar Rising & the Purple Reign" conference being held at Yale University from Jan. 25 to the 28.

Here is the article:

http://www.ctnow.com/musi...story.html
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Oh, wow. Thanks for the info. I'll definitely check it out.

Here is more info:

http://schwarzman.yale.ed...-questlove
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Listened to the Funkenberry podcast and they said Sheila E will be there too.
Free entry😀

LovePaisley said:

Will you be able to attend the conference?

This sounds nice.

Latin said:

100%, I'm in.



I'm already giggling over an academic take on Prince: "The psychosexual impact of "Do Me Baby" (long version) on the rock & roll slow jam milieu."

OK, I may or may not have totally made that up. I plan to be there for both Wednesday and Thursday evening sessions. I'd attend them all, but I'll be away that weekend.

Are you going? I think you're in NYC? Easy train up.
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Here is another article about the conference published by okayplayer:

http://www.okayplayer.com...rence.html

FYI all: tickets are free and available on eventbrite. They're going quick. I got a ticket for Wednesday, but just missed Thursday and am wait listed instead.

If to plan to go to any of the sessions, don't wait!

Here are more details:

http://ritm.yale.edu/even...and-prince
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journalism16 said:

LovePaisley said:

Thank you for letting us know LovePaisley.

Missmusicluver72 said:

Would love to hear how it goes - and if anyone hears about streaming, post ASAP!

They've not answered any of my (half dozen?) e-mail or voice mail messages from my official university address since the beginning of December. Looking to find out if my students can access a stream, since we're studying Prince in class.

That's uncollegial of them, so do me the favor of eating far too much of their reception food if you're going. Or use up all the milk at the coffee station, or something.

LittleProfessor said:

Hopefully, you will find the following video helpful for your class:

http://prince.org/msg/7/437085
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Here is another article on the conference published by The Fader:

http://www.thefader.com/2...aign=share

The program for the 4 day conference is out. The following are some of the highlights.

Day 1:

Sound & Vision: Listening Together to David Bowie & Prince (concert & critical deejay session with Questlove and Kimbra)

Event time:
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 8:30pm to 11:00pm

Event description:

Questlove and Kimbra are the featured speakers in Sound & Vision: Listening Together to Bowie and Prince, a critical deejay conversation.
Opening concert - “The Beautiful Ones”: A Yale Symphony Orchestra Tribute to David Bowie & Prince

Please note:

Doors will open at 7:45pm.
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Day 2:

“Everybody Still Wants to Fly”: Activism in Pop from Prince to Solange (roundtable conversation and keynote conversation with Solange)

Event time:
Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 9:00pm to 11:00pm

Event description:
“Everybody Still Wants to Fly”: Activism in Pop from Prince to Solange featuring an opening roundtable discussion of cinematic Prince in concert and his socio-political activism.

Speakers:
Alan Light, author of Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
Kandia Crazy Horse, author of Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock ‘n Roll

Moderator: Sherae Rimpsey, Lecturer in Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Keynote Conversation with Solange

Moderator: Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies; American Studies; Theater Studies; and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

Day 4:

“Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality (conference session)

Event time:
Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Event description:
“Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality

Speakers:
Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University, “Trans*Bowie”
Ann Powers, author, critic, and correspondent for NPR Music, “I Am Something You’ll Never Understand: Facing the Strange with Bowie and Prince”
Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Theater Studies, and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Yale University, “Blackstar, Bright Star, Not a Gangstar: Revolutionary Black Feminisms through Bowie & Prince”

Moderator: Hazel V. Carby, Professor of African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University

Day 3:

“Housequake”: A Critical Karaoke Tribute (conference session)

Event time:
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Event description:
“Housequake”: A Critical Karaoke Tribute

Nine distinguished scholars and so many classic songs. Join us for a special session in which conference participants offer meditations on their favorite tracks by Bowie and Prince—set to the music they each love.

Participants:
Daphne Carr, Sound Studies scholar, New York University
Andreana Clay, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University
Nicole Fleetwood, Associate Professor of American Studies, Rutgers University
Farah Griffin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, Columbia University
Matt Jacobson, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and History, Yale University
Kathryn Lofton Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History and Divinity, Yale University
Gus Stadler, Associate Professor of English, Haverford College
Alexandra Vazquez, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, New York University
Gayle Wald, Professor of English and American Studies, George Washington University

Moderator: Daphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies; American Studies; Theater Studies; and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

Day 3:

“Around the World in a Day”: Traversing Cities & Borders in Bowie & Prince (conference session)

Event time:
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 2:15pm to 3:45pm

Event description:
“Around the World in a Day”: Traversing Cities & Borders in Bowie & Prince

Speakers:
Josh Kun, Professor of Communications, University of Southern California, “Mister Prince and Man, Ruler of the World: Heroes Across the Border”
Zaheer Ali, Lecturer, New York University; Brooklyn Historical Society Oral Historian, “That Ain’t Lake Minnetonka!: Prince’s Sonic and Spatial (Re-) Making of Minneapolis”
Alexander Weheliye, Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University, “New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s and David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers”

Moderator: Emily Lordi, Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Day 4:

“The Black Album”: Bowie, Prince & Sonic Experimentalism (conference session)

Event time:
Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Event description:
“The Black Album”: Bowie, Prince & Sonic Experimentalism

Speakers:
Michael Veal, Professor of Music and African American Studies, Yale University, “Paint”
Greg Tate, author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America and Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, “This Is What It’s Like When Starships Cry—A Cosmic Soliloquy On The Warp Driven Vessels Christened Bowie and Prince”

Moderator: Richard Yarborough, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Day 3:

“Modern Love”: Bowie & Prince & the Art of Collaboration—In Conversation with Donny McCaslin and Sheila E. (roundtable conversation)

Event time:
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 8:30pm to 11:00pm

Event description:
Roundtable conversation with Donny McCaslin and Sheila E.

Moderators: Maureen Mahon, Associate Professor of Music, New York University; and Alexandra Vazquez, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, New York University

Welcoming remarks by Jacqueline Goldsby, Professor of English and African American Studies, Yale University

Didn't Prince get his honorary doctorate degree from MN? He was aware of this and thought it was pretty cool from what I read.

http://time.com/4366863/prince-honorary-doctorate-university-of-minnesota/

musicfan77 said:

Wow. Cool. Thanks for sharing.
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MD431Madcat said:

Solange Knowles?!!!

IKR? will she discuss her own history of unseemly,possibly criminal, incident in an elevator? or did jz send he as an emmisary?