Join us for a very special session!
Thursday 17th March 2022 | 5.30-7.00pm | Maurice Keyworth Building room 1.09 & Zoom (email Ghada on en14gh@leeds.ac.uk to receive the link) Quilting Points is extremely excited to announce our next session: a special guest speaker event where we will be joined by Dr. Dhanveer Singh Brar from the University of Leeds to discuss Paul Gilroy's passion for music, its relationship to freedom movements, and the history of Black British music. Please join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation, interspersed with music from a playlist Gilroy himself composed for Wire... For this session we will be reading a sample of Gilroy's music journalism in the article ' Bohemians, Stamp Collectors, Revolutionaries and Critics ' alongside the essay '"Rhythm in the Force of Forces": Music and Political Time' . For this session we have also put together a list of suggested further listening consisting of the Wire Playlist: Windrush Vibrations , Tony Her