Upcoming Events:

The Institute of African-American Affairs at New York University and Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire at New York University proudly present

HUGH MASEKELA

Spring 2005
Artist-in-Residence

Tuesday, February 15, 8pm
Hugh Masekela in Concert

Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Kimmel Center for Student Life
60 Washington Square South at LaGuardia Place

Tickets are:
$100-premium seat, copy of "Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela", one-year subscription to Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire, and pre-concert reception.
$60-premium seat and one-year subscription to Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire
$20-reserved seat
$10-reserved NYU student seat (valid ID must be presented for purchase)

Concert tickets go on sale Tuesday, February 1, 2005. For more information, please call the Skirball Center Box Office at 212-992-8484.

Tuesday, February 22, 7pm
Hugh Masekela and Harry Belafonte in Conversation

Join these two activist-musicians as they discuss their multi-continental roles deploying music in the struggles against segregation in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa.

Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor
Kimmel Center for Student Life
60 Washington Square South at LaGuardia Place
This event is free and open to the public.

Friday, February 25, 7pm
Reading, Discussion and Book Signing for
"Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela"

Silver Board Room
Kimmel Center for Student Life, 9th Floor
60 Washington Square South at LaGuardia Place
This event is free and open to the public.

Picture identification is required for entrance to all events.
For more information on these events call: 212-998-2130.

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Each year the Institute of African-American Affairs brings internationally acclaimed Black artists, including writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, to the NYU Community. During their residency, the artists participate in academic seminars, offer public presentations of their work, and meet with students and faculty. As with past participants-Salif Keita, Danny Glover, Anna Devere Smith, Walter Mosley, Jayne Cortez, Amiri Baraka, Randy Weston-Hugh Masekela's residency is designed to foster intellectual
and creative exchange.

Hugh Masekela is a globally renowned trumpeter and a giant of world music. A fountainhead of African jazz and South Africa's generous, eclectic and courageous musical ambassador to the world, his musical career spans over four decades during which time he has released over 30 albums, conceived the Broadway musical, Sarafina, and written his long awaited autobiography, "Still Grazing" (Crown Publishing, May 2004).

Masekela was present in the most important music scenes of the late
twentieth century: from being adopted by bebop legends in New York to advising a young Bob Marley in Kingston, from organizing the Rumble in the Jungle musical extravaganza in Zaire to getting lost in Fela's Afropop explosion in Lagos. Through [his musical] Sarafina, the Graceland tour with Paul Simon, and his political activism, he worked to destroy the apartheid regime of the South African homeland from which he was exiled.

His trumpet has been an instrument of resistance, a call to freedom and a celebration of the resilience of his people. His powerful blend of jazz, funk and afro-beat has mourned the tragedy of apartheid and rejoiced at its demise.

Masekela is a pioneer in contemporary African music, having laid the groundwork, along with such musical giants as Fela Ransom Kuti, Franco, Miriam Makeba, Rochereau, Babatunde Olatunji, Montebango, and Sunny Ade, for the world beat explosion that's led to the success and popularity of other African superstars such as Angelique Kidjo, Salif Keita, Baba Maal and Youssou N'Dour.
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Since its inception in 1969, the Institute of African-American Affairs at New York University has been a vibrant cultural community center dedicated to research, documentation, and the celebration of Black culture and creative expressions. Both the Institute and its affiliate, the NYU Africana Studies Program in the Faculty of Arts and Science, are committed to the study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies. These distinct organizations share staff and facilities.

Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire, published three times a year by New York University's Institute of African-American Affairs, is that rare journal that takes a global perspective on literature, politics, history, culture, and visual art, targeting the African diaspora in English and French.

Special thanks to the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, and the Jazz Studies Program, The Steinhardt School, at New York University for their generous support of these programs. Call the Institute of African-American Affairs' event hotline at 212-998-4222.

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