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Winter 2018 Chapter Meeting (Boston College, Feb. 24th)

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 24th, 2018 Lyons Hall, rm. 423  Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA Photo Source: https://www.bc.edu/offices/its/support/mts/classroomsupport/classrooms/lyons.html DIRECTIONS PARKING CAMPUS MAP 8:45 - 9:15 a.m. Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: The politics of music’s transmission 9:15 a.m. Welcome 9:20 a.m. "Hannibal Lokumbe’s One Land, One River, One People as Political Resistance”   Benjamin Safran (Temple University) Hannibal Lokumbe’s identity markers and presentation make him the ultimate outsider within the classical music world. Born in the segregated south as Marvin Peterson and known mononymously as Hannibal, during a residency with the Philadelphia Orchestra he has so far created music for black churches, prisoners, and neuro-diverse communities. Unlike some of his other projects, his large-scale work One Land, One River, One People appears on the surface to function as a