BOOK TALK: Matthew D. Morrison's "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States"

Join the Clive Davis Institute for a discussion with our very own Associate Professor Matthew D. Morrison on his new book: Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States. The discussion will be moderated by CDI Alum Kyra Williams ('20), and copies of the book will be distributed (while supplies last)!

Matthew D. Morrison, Ph.D. is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and is an Associate Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. His research focuses on the history of popular music and the relationship between music and identity, and it has be funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard University, the American Musicological Society, Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Center for Popular Music Studies/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Matthew’s book, Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States, is published by the University of California Press (2024).