The WVU Humanities Center will host a talk from George E. Lewis: "Black Liveness Matters: Karel Čapek meets Blind Tom" tonight (Jan. 27) at 7 p.m. in Bloch Hall.
Musicologist, composer, and experimental musician, George E. Lewis, the Edwin H. Case Professor of Music from Columbia University has been awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lewis has been at the forefront of electronic and computer music, multimedia installations and improvisational forms and his book, “A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music” (2008) won an American Book Award. Through his philosophical background and musical experience, he brings a critical perspective to Afrofuturism—black cultural production and its intersection with technology to reimagine black futures from the black past in order to differently inscribe future-foreword possibilities.