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Columbia College Chicago
Genius without Borders: A Symposium in Honor of the Genius of Michael Jackson
September 24–25
Chicago, IL
The symposium is free and open to the public, but since a capacity audience is expected, pre-registration will be required for admission.
Pre-registration will become available on September 7, 2010, and must be made online from this page. Pre-registration will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis until all available seats are reserved. It is highly unlikely that any seats will be available at the door without pre-registration.
Nonlocal symposium attendees should make their own lodging arrangements.
Symposium Venues
Registration, check-in, and all sessions on September 24 and 25 will be held on the Columbia College Chicago campus at 1104 South Wabash Avenue, Film Row Cinema, 8th floor.
The September 24 evening event, for which separate tickets must be purchased ($20) through www.ticketweb.com, will be held in the Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street. Tickets will go on sale beginning September 7, 2010.
For more information about the event, please call the Center for Black Music Research at 312.369.7559 or email cbmr.contact@colum.edu.
Symposium Presenters
Friday, September 24
8:00–9:30 a.m.
Registration check-in
1104 South Wabash Avenue
Film Row Cinema, 8th floor
9:30–10:30 a.m.
“A Genius Is a Negro Who Dreams of Snow: Michael Jackson and the Pursuit of White Power”
10:45–11:45 a.m.
“Michael and the Motherland”
11:45 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:30–2:30 p.m.
“Smooth Criminality”: Racial Phantasmagoria & Black Fugitivity in Michael Jackson's (Dancing) Body Politic
2:45–3:45 p.m.
“The Postmodern Genius of Michael Jackson”
4:00–5:00 p.m.
“Sampling Michael: The Performance of Rhythm, Masculinity, and Nostalgia”
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Special Panel Presentation: “It's All About the Music: An Insider's Look at Michael Jackson's Art”
Michael Jackson and Ed Eckstein
Moderated by Ed Eckstein, former president, Mercury Records, and co-producer of The Rhythm and Blues Project
Invited guests to include
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street, Chicago
Tickets required, available only at www.ticketweb.com. Tickets go on sale on September 7, 2010.
Saturday, September 25
8:30–9:30 a.m.
Registration check-in
1104 South Wabash Avenue
Film Row Cinema, 8th floor
9:30–11:00 a.m.
“Big Boy: Michael Jackson in Chicago, 1965–1968”
A panel discussion among music industry figures who worked with the Jackson Five during their developmental years as a Chicago nightclub act before their “discovery” by Motown.
Open discussion with the symposium participants
12:00 p.m.
Symposium concludes
3:00–3:45 p.m.
Class: Learn Choreography from Michael Jackson's “Thriller”
Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago dancer Amansu Eason will teach choreography from Michael Jackson's “Thriller”
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
1306 S. Michigan Avenue
Studio 200
Free
Offered in association with
Follow the Symposium Online
Althea Legaspi and Ronnie Reese will live blog the events. Watch this page for more information.
Follow the CBMR on Twitter at cbmrccc. Track and join the conversation using the hashtag #gwb2010.
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Columbia College Chicago
Genius without Borders: A Symposium in Honor of the Genius of Michael Jackson
September 24–25
Chicago, IL
- Registration
- Symposium Presenters
- Preliminary Program
- Symposium Venues
- Follow the Symposium Online
- Own Your Own Michael Jackson Photograph
- Sponsor and Partners
- Press Release
The symposium is free and open to the public, but since a capacity audience is expected, pre-registration will be required for admission.
Pre-registration will become available on September 7, 2010, and must be made online from this page. Pre-registration will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis until all available seats are reserved. It is highly unlikely that any seats will be available at the door without pre-registration.
Nonlocal symposium attendees should make their own lodging arrangements.
Symposium Venues
Registration, check-in, and all sessions on September 24 and 25 will be held on the Columbia College Chicago campus at 1104 South Wabash Avenue, Film Row Cinema, 8th floor.
The September 24 evening event, for which separate tickets must be purchased ($20) through www.ticketweb.com, will be held in the Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street. Tickets will go on sale beginning September 7, 2010.
For more information about the event, please call the Center for Black Music Research at 312.369.7559 or email cbmr.contact@colum.edu.
Symposium Presenters
- Jacob Austen is a music journalist and author of TV-a-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol. He is currently working on a book about Michael Jackson in Chicago 1965–1968.
- Bonnie Brooks is a dance writer, dance educator, and arts advocate with an extensive background in dance administration and production. She is the department chair at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.
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Daphne Brooks is a specialist in African-American literature and culture, performance studies, cultural studies, and popular music culture. She serves as director of Undergraduate Studies in the Center of African American Studies at Princeton University.
- The son of legendary vocalist, bandleader, and matinee idol Billy Eckstine, Ed Eckstein has had a varied and extensive career in the music business. He joined Quincy Jones's budding media operation in 1974 and spent nearly eleven years as a key executive member of Jones's production empire, serving in a variety of positions on projects by the Brothers Johnson, Michael Jackson, George Benson, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Patti Austin, James Ingram, the soundtracks to Roots and the film adaptation of The Wiz, and Quincy's classic recordings. In 1985, Eckstein joined Clive Davis's Arista Records as vice president of A&R, where he contributed creatively to projects by Whitney Houston, Kenny G., Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Expose, and Jermaine Stewart. In 1986, he began a decade-plus-long tenure with Polygram Records. His initial signings there included Vanessa Williams; Tony, Toni, Toné; Robin Harris; and Brian McKnight. In 1990, Eckstein became the first African American to be appointed president of a major non-black-owned recording company. He is currently co-producing with Moon Dog Films an eight-hour documentary television series, tentatively titled The Rhythm & Blues Project, on the history of R&B and soul music from post World War II.
- Althea Legaspi is a Chicago-based writer/journalist. She's a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, and her work has been featured in USA Today, Independent UK, Paste Magazine, Time Out, and Relix Magazine, among others. She is NPR-affiliate WBEZ's on-air music critic, and her features also air on “All Things Considered.” She teaches Music Journalism, Writing for Radio, and Radio Interviewing at Columbia College Chicago and has also served as an on-camera correspondent for Rollingstone.com, HOB.com, and the radio show “Sound Opinions.”
- Raquel Monroe is a scholar, artist, and activist with a long history in academia and in diverse communities engaging the ways in which dance influences and is influenced by the social discourses on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture. She is assistant professor at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.
- Mark Anthony Neal is professor of black popular culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio and contributes to several on-line media outlets, including The Root.com.
- Ronnie Reese writes for Wax Poetics magazine, Stones Throw Records, and AOL. He is pursuing a graduate degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
- Stephanie Shonekan is a professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago, where she teaches classes that focus on the art and literature created by people of African descent. She is currently completing work on a collaborative autobiography depicting the life of the notable African-American opera singer, Camilla Williams.
- Greg Tate was a staff writer at The Village Voice during 1987–2005. His writings on culture and politics have also been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Artforum, and Rolling Stone, among many other publications. He is currently working on a book about James Brown.
Friday, September 24
8:00–9:30 a.m.
Registration check-in
1104 South Wabash Avenue
Film Row Cinema, 8th floor
9:30–10:30 a.m.
“A Genius Is a Negro Who Dreams of Snow: Michael Jackson and the Pursuit of White Power”
- Gregory Tate, presenter
10:45–11:45 a.m.
“Michael and the Motherland”
- Stephanie Shonekan, presenter
11:45 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:30–2:30 p.m.
“Smooth Criminality”: Racial Phantasmagoria & Black Fugitivity in Michael Jackson's (Dancing) Body Politic
- Daphne Brooks, presenter
2:45–3:45 p.m.
“The Postmodern Genius of Michael Jackson”
- Bonnie Brooks and Raquel Monroe, presenters
4:00–5:00 p.m.
“Sampling Michael: The Performance of Rhythm, Masculinity, and Nostalgia”
- Mark Anthony Neal, presenter
7:30–9:30 p.m.
Special Panel Presentation: “It's All About the Music: An Insider's Look at Michael Jackson's Art”
Michael Jackson and Ed Eckstein
Moderated by Ed Eckstein, former president, Mercury Records, and co-producer of The Rhythm and Blues Project
Invited guests to include
- Greg Phillinganes, musical director for Michael Jackson's Bad and Dangerous concert tours
- Other musicians and artists who have worked with Michael Jackson
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street, Chicago
Tickets required, available only at www.ticketweb.com. Tickets go on sale on September 7, 2010.
Saturday, September 25
8:30–9:30 a.m.
Registration check-in
1104 South Wabash Avenue
Film Row Cinema, 8th floor
9:30–11:00 a.m.
“Big Boy: Michael Jackson in Chicago, 1965–1968”
A panel discussion among music industry figures who worked with the Jackson Five during their developmental years as a Chicago nightclub act before their “discovery” by Motown.
- Jake Austen (host and moderator)
- Gordon Keith – As owner of Steeltown Records, Keith helped manage the Jackson Five and released the group's first single, “Big Boy,” in 1967.
- Clinton Ghent – Best known for hosting the local version of Soul Train(1970–1976), Ghent was also a choreographer who developed some of the Jackson Five's earliest dance routines.
- Larry Blasingaine – As a teenage guitarist, Blasingaine and his band the Young Folks shared stages and rehearsal spacewith the Jackson Five. Blasingaine also played with (and coached) the Jackson brothers on their first known studio recording session. He would later play guitar with the Emotions and Jackie Wilson.
- Wilton Crump – With his vocal group, Crump competed with the Jackson Five at Roosevelt High talent shows. He later did arrangements on the group's second Steeltown single, “We Don't Have to Be Over 21 (To Fall in Love).” He later managed doo wop legends the Spaniels and is currently that group's lead singer.
Open discussion with the symposium participants
12:00 p.m.
Symposium concludes
3:00–3:45 p.m.
Class: Learn Choreography from Michael Jackson's “Thriller”
Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago dancer Amansu Eason will teach choreography from Michael Jackson's “Thriller”
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
1306 S. Michigan Avenue
Studio 200
Free
Offered in association with
- The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, 1306-Ten Years Later
- Columbia College Chicago alumni weekend
Follow the Symposium Online
Althea Legaspi and Ronnie Reese will live blog the events. Watch this page for more information.
Follow the CBMR on Twitter at cbmrccc. Track and join the conversation using the hashtag #gwb2010.
Event sponsor
Media partners
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