EVENTS
Tuesday, February 9, 2021. Time TBA
In conversation with Daphne Brooks and Gayle Wald
In conjunction with Nikita Gale’s PRIVATE DANCER exhibition at the California African American Museum, Mahon will be in conversation with Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 and Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, and Gayle Wald, author of Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe and "It's Been Beautiful": Soul! and Black Power Television.
Installation view, Nikita Gale: PRIVATE DANCER. Photo by Elon Schoenholz.
November 19, 2020 at at 6:00 PM Eastern on Zoom
A Discussion About African American Women
in Rock & Roll
Mahon and Honeychild Coleman, musician and DJ, joined Reggie Blanding, librarian at the James Brown African American Room of the Newark Public Library in Newark, NJ, for a conversation about Black women and rock and roll. WATCH>
November 11, 2020 at at 7:30 PM Eastern
Greenlight Bookstore’s “In Conversation”
As part of the author event series at Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore, Mahon was in conversation with Bridgett M. Davis, novelist and author of the memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers. WATCH>
Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7PM Eastern on YouTube
NMAAHC x NPR Music – Black Diamond Queens: A conversation between Maureen Mahon and Ann Powers
In partnership with NPR Music, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture hosted Mahon in an interview with Ann Powers, NPR Music’s critic and correspondent and the author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music. LISTEN>
October 27, 2020 at 5:00 PM Eastern
African American Women and Rock
Popular Music Books in Process Series. In conversation with Francesca T. Royster, author of Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era.
Two Trains Runnin’,
October 9, 2020 at 5:00 PM Eastern
Screening of Two Trains Runnin’
Maureen Mahon will be in conversation with director Sam Pollard and producer Ben Hedin following a screening of their documentary Two Trains Runnin’. NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History.
October 4, 2020
Visions and Revisions in Popular Music
The story of popular music—the meaning and legacy of its key figures and unrecognized innovators, and how it has both shaped and reflected the societal forces, conversations and revolutions of our times—is forever being written and rewritten. Explore with three bold chroniclers of sound and politics: Sasha Geffen (Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary), Maureen Mahon (Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll), and Marcus J. Moore (The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America). Moderated by Bandcamp’s Jes Skolnik. PLAY>
