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Musician And Scholar To Speak At W&L
The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Washington and Lee University will welcome Tammy L. Kernodle, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at Miami University, to campus to deliver a lecture at 5 p.m. on Nov. 15 in the University Chapel.
The lecture, “All Rhythm, But None of the Blues: Black Music, Black Women and the De-Mythologizing of Post-Racial America,” is free and open to the public.
Kernodle is a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, and her visit is supported by the Class of 1963 Scholars in Residence Program, W&L’s PBK chapter and the national Phi Beta Kappa Society. During her visit to W&L, Kernodle will also visit the DeLaney Center, the Department of Art History and the Department of Music.
An internationally recognized musician and scholar, Kernodle’s research focuses on African American music, gender studies in music and race in American popular culture. She currently serves as curator of the New World Symphony’s “I Dream a World” festival, a multiyear initiative which celebrates the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, and she was previously the president of the Society for American Music.
Kernodle is the author of the book “Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams,” which chronicles the six-decade career of educator and jazz pianist and arranger Mary Lou Williams.
She was the associate editor of the threevolume “Encyclopedia of African American Music” and served on the editorial board for the revision of the “New Grove Encyclopedia of American Music.” She has written for and consulted with the American Jazz Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Walker Art Center, NPR, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the BBC and Carnegie Hall.
Her scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she has been featured in award-winning documentaries, including “Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band,” “Girls in the Band” and “Miles Davis: The Birth of Cool.”
