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DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with Music\n	\n	Bonnie Gordon (University of Virgini
 a)\n	\n	Entangled Soundscapes: Thomas Jefferson\, Haiti\, and Diasporic Soun
 d\n	In 1791\, Thomas Jefferson and his eldest daughter Martha exchanged a s
 eries of letters that brought two seemingly dissimilar topics into close p
 roximity: a discussion of domestic musical life in their Virginia home and
  events unfolding in the French colony of Saint Domingue\, now known as Ha
 iti. The most historically significant of the events unfolding in Saint Do
 mingue was what we now recognize as the Haitian revolution\, which was cat
 alyzed in August of 1791 by a clandestine ceremony in which Dutty Boukman 
 led an oath to fight for freedom and a mixed raced priestess named Cecile 
 Fatiman consecrated a vow. This paper explores the sonic resonance of that
  ceremony and its reverberation in diasporic sound. I hear the terror of s
 lave revolution\, the terror of the imperial gaze\, suddenly transforming 
 into the largely aural experience of white listeners hearing black resista
 nce. And the contrasts between the cultivated European music of Martha Jef
 ferson Randolph and the incantations of the Vodou priestess resonate with 
 the entanglement of music and sound emanating concurrently from the power 
 structures in a racist chattel slave society and in early American democra
 cy. Leaping forward over two centuries\, the talk concludes with some thou
 ghts on the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. As the town made fam
 ous by Jefferson\, which has never been quiet or peaceful\, moves from has
 htag back to flashpoint\, I’m convinced that listening to the past and to 
 the complicated relationship among sound\, song\, aesthetics\, and nation 
 building matters very much.\n
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LOCATION:Room C-201\, Strathcona Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 1E3\, 555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series | Bonnie Gordon 'Entangled Soundscapes: Thomas 
 Jefferson\, Haiti\, and Diasporic Sound'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/ahcs-speaker-series-bonnie-go
 rdon-entangled-soundscapes-thomas-jefferson-haiti-and-diasporic-sound-2837
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