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SUMMARY:We\, Too\, Write Rock and Roll
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DESCRIPTION:UToledo's Kimberly Mack\, Ph.D.\, will present on two prominen
 t Black American rock writers--Cynthia Dagnal-Myron and Vernon Gibbs--who 
 wrote during the 1970s and 80s for many publications..\nhttps://toledo.lib
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Humanities in Public-Speaker Series<br />P
 resented by the UToledo Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities</p>\n<p>Thi
 s presentation focuses on two prominent Black American rock writers--Cynth
 ia Dagnal-Myron and Vernon Gibbs--who wrote during the 1970s and 80s for m
 any publications\, including Detroit's legendary CREEM magazine. Prof. Mac
 k's talk will show how their bold writing style disrupted that era's race 
 and gender expectations for what a rock writer (and rock star!) should loo
 k like.</p>\n<p><img src="https://toledo.libnet.info/frontend-images/edito
 r/toledo/KimberlyMackCPAweb.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="389" /></p>\n<
 p>Kimberly Mack&nbsp\;(PhD UCLA) is an associate professor who specializes
  in African American literature and culture\, twentieth- and twenty-first 
 century ethnic American literature\, autobiographical narratives\, and Ame
 rican popular music. She&rsquo\;s the author of&nbsp\;Fictional Blues: Nar
 rative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White&nbsp\;(University of
  Massachusetts Press\, 2020)\, which won the&nbsp\;2021 College English As
 sociation of Ohio&rsquo\;s Nancy Dasher Award.&nbsp\;Her in-progress book 
 projects\,&nbsp\;The Untold History of American Rock Criticism&nbsp\;and&n
 bsp\;Living Colour&rsquo\;s Time&rsquo\;s Up&nbsp\;(part of the&nbsp\;33 1
 /3 book series and forthcoming May 2023)\, are under contract with Bloomsb
 ury. Kimberly&rsquo\;s scholarly and public-facing articles have appeared\
 , or are forthcoming\, in&nbsp\;African American Review\, Popular Music an
 d Society\, Journal of Popular Music Studies\,&nbsp\;AMP:&nbsp\;American M
 usic Perspectives\,&nbsp\;Longreads\, No Depression\, and elsewhere. Dr. M
 ack teaches courses on the undergraduate and graduate levels on African Am
 erican literature and culture\, as well as other courses for majors and no
 n-majors\, including Writing About Literature\; Contemporary Literary Theo
 ries and Criticism\; and Literature of Postcolonial\, Diasporic\, and Nonw
 hite Communities.&nbsp\;</p>\nhttps://toledo.libnet.info/event/6998540
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