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March 2023
2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, II
Hidden Hybridities II: The Afrogenesis Hypothesis of Creole Language Origins Much of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances, distracting gulfs between the present and the past, and concerns more local to our moment…
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2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, III
Hidden Hybridities III: The Black American Roots of the Broadway Musical Sound Much of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances, distracting gulfs between the present and the past, and concerns more local to…
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