M. Lamar: Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman

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FREE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC EVENT

M. Lamar: Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman
Thursday, March 2, 2017
7:00 p.m.
Winifred Smith Hall

With a libretto that draws from G.W.F Hegel’s “Lordship and Bondage” from Phenomenology of the Spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Übermensch” from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Sun Ra’s interviews and writings on discipline and freedom, this piece engages African Americans’ experiences of enslaved and liberated consciousness. It is a melodramatic epic solo expressing and enacting a becoming of Black mind, body, and soul beyond the violence of both slavery and liberty.

Sponsored by Illuminations and Campus Climate Council, with additional support from Postmodern Culture and Departments of Music, Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Asian American Studies, History, Spanish and Portuguese, English, East Asian Languages & Literatures, and the Graduate Program in Culture and Theory.

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