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Event Name: From Native Son to Native Song: A Conversation
Event Date: November 19
Location: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Address: 315 E. Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201
Phone: 313-494-5830
Description
Open to the public at-large and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan’s Musical Society, this free event features Tony Award-winning playwright and singer Stew, who will offer an evening of musical homage to the late, great James Baldwin — a writer whose art and activism permanently altered American consciousness.
A contemporary analysis of Baldwin’s 1955 masterwork, the essay collection Notes of a Native Son, Stew’s Notes of a Native Song is an irreverent and spirited rock ‘n’ roll song cycle.
Stew and his band, The Negro Problem, use Baldwin’s work to examine lingering civil rights woes through a rapturous mix of rock, jazz, and soul. His uniquely incisive lyrics pay homage to the writer, who spoke uncomfortable truths about race, love, class division, and politics.
7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
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Event DatesNovember 19, 2019More To ExploreCategories: ART EXHIBITS & EVENTSPERFORMING ARTSCity: DETROITRegion: SOUTHEASThere.
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