Rashida K Braggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5235839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rashida K Braggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rashida K |
| FAMILY NAME | Braggs |
| SIGNATURE | BRAGGS R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Runnin' to Grace
Runnin’ to Grace is an interdisciplinary solo performance that foregrounds the experiences, emotions, and thoughts of Rashida K. Braggs as a Black academic surviving the double pandemic of systemic racialized violence and Covid-19. Braggs culls and creates photos, articles, videos, songs, phrases and dance throughout the year of May 2020 to April 2021 for this embodied archive. @font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;ms…
The two Simones at Montreux
This article weaves Nina Simone’s 1976 concert and Lisa Simone’s 2016 concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival with the author’s life experiences. Despite multiple shifts between historical period and person, attention to the dangers of racism and the hope for liberation persist throughout the festival experience
Embodying the Break in Sidney Bechet’s “Summertime”
I tried to stand beside him Sidney Bechet rrrr, rrrr, rrr, de, de, dum 1His bluesdillied sometimes,dalliedsometimesthen pounced attitude over a steady b
Visualizing the Interiority of Mary Lou Williams
Why now? What does Carol Bash’s documentary of Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981) add that we don’t already know about the incomparable composer, arranger and pianist? These were the first questions tha
Excerpt from Jazz Diasporas
Excerpt from Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post–World War II Paris (University of California Press, 2016)
Paris Blues
Book Review| April 01 2015 Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920–1960 Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920–1960. By Andy Fry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13881-7. Paper. Pp. 282. $30.00. Rashida K. Braggs Rashida K. Braggs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2015) 33 (1): 131–133. https://doi.org/10.5406/america…
Between African-American and European
Constrained by racism and increasing white ownership of the music industry in the United States, African-American jazz drummer Kenny Clarke exited the New York jazz scene for Paris in 1956. Clarke's migration not only represented social freedom but also creative freedom. Through his mentorship of French artists and his work to universalize jazz beyond the authority of just African-American musicians, Clarke signified blackness and Europeaness. In…
Lost Jazz Lives Recovered Between Fact and Fiction
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Lost Jazz Lives Recovered Between Fact and Fiction
Between African-American and European
Constrained by racism and increasing white ownership of the music industry in the United States, African-American jazz drummer Kenny Clarke exited the New York jazz scene for Paris in 1956. Clarke's migration not only represented social freedom but also creative freedom. Through his mentorship of French artists and his work to universalize jazz beyond the authority of just African-American musicians, Clarke signified blackness and Europeaness. In…
Paris Blues
Book Review| April 01 2015 Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920–1960 Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920–1960. By Andy Fry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13881-7. Paper. Pp. 282. $30.00. Rashida K. Braggs Rashida K. Braggs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2015) 33 (1): 131–133. https://doi.org/10.5406/america…
Excerpt from Jazz Diasporas
Excerpt from Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post–World War II Paris (University of California Press, 2016)
Visualizing the Interiority of Mary Lou Williams
Why now? What does Carol Bash’s documentary of Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981) add that we don’t already know about the incomparable composer, arranger and pianist? These were the first questions tha
Embodying the Break in Sidney Bechet’s “Summertime”
I tried to stand beside him Sidney Bechet rrrr, rrrr, rrr, de, de, dum 1His bluesdillied sometimes,dalliedsometimesthen pounced attitude over a steady b
Runnin' to Grace
Runnin’ to Grace is an interdisciplinary solo performance that foregrounds the experiences, emotions, and thoughts of Rashida K. Braggs as a Black academic surviving the double pandemic of systemic racialized violence and Covid-19. Braggs culls and creates photos, articles, videos, songs, phrases and dance throughout the year of May 2020 to April 2021 for this embodied archive. @font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;ms…
The two Simones at Montreux
This article weaves Nina Simone’s 1976 concert and Lisa Simone’s 2016 concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival with the author’s life experiences. Despite multiple shifts between historical period and person, attention to the dangers of racism and the hope for liberation persist throughout the festival experience
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