“When It Hits You,

You Feel No Pain”

“When It Hits You, You Feel No Pain”:

A Conversation about Music and Politics

Wednesday, April 27 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Lang Cafe, The New School, 65 West 11th Street, NY, NY, 10003

65 West 11th Street

New York, NY

 

Music has power to move people’s bodies, but does it have power to move their bodies into action? Music and politics are often intimate partners in society whether an artist consciously connects them or not. What role does music play in the politics of today’s world?

What is the responsibility of artists as public figures to be politically conscious? Can the two stand on their own, or are they forever linked? We will explore some of these and other questions at this panel as part of GPIA’s Media and Culture Concentration’s

Conversations series.

With invited panelists Brian Jackson (musician/composer and Gil Scott Heron’s main musical collaborator in the 1970s), Raquel Cepeda (journalist and director of “Bling, A Planet Rock”), DJ Laylo (DJ/filmmaker), Eddie ‘Stats’ Houghton (journalist, The Fader), Wills Glasspiegel (artist manager and radio producer) and Masauko Chipembere (musician, composer).

The panel will be moderated by Megan Bandle (South Africa House Initiative, Brooklyn).

Organized by Sean Jacobs and Boima Tucker.

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