Black Music & Freedom: 3-part Lecture With Marcus Shelby - Jazz Camp Online at Living Jazz

This 3-part Zoom class explores the role of Black Music during freedom movements in the United States. Each class will include discussion and inquiry, recordings, video clips, photos and charts, and live performance.

Thursday June 25: Harriet Tubman and the Blues: Field Shouts, Work Songs, Spirituals, Early Blues

Thursday July 2: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Blues: Freedom Songs, Folk Songs, Blues and Swing, R&B

Thursday July 9: Beyond the Blues: Ending the Prison Industrial Complex
$60 for 3-part series.

Please note: This master class will be conducted live via Zoom. You will need a reliable internet connection, a computer, tablet or mobile device with a webcam and microphone....

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This 3-part Zoom class explores the role of Black Music during freedom movements in the United States. Each class will include discussion and inquiry, recordings, video clips, photos and charts, and live performance.

Thursday June 25: Harriet Tubman and the Blues: Field Shouts, Work Songs, Spirituals, Early Blues

Thursday July 2: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Blues: Freedom Songs, Folk Songs, Blues and Swing, R&B

Thursday July 9: Beyond the Blues: Ending the Prison Industrial Complex
$60 for 3-part series.

Please note: This master class will be conducted live via Zoom. You will need a reliable internet connection, a computer, tablet or mobile device with a webcam and microphone.

Marcus Shelby
Marcus Shelby is a composer, arranger, band leader, bassist, and educator who currently lives in San Francisco, California. His work focuses on the history, present, and future of African American lives, social movements, and music education. In 1990, Marcus Shelby received the Charles Mingus Scholarship to attend Cal Arts and study composition with James Newton and bass with Charlie Haden. Currently, Shelby is an artist in residence with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and a new resident artist director for the San Francisco Jazz Festival 2019-2020.

marcusshelby.com

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