Local artist Pampi and her incredible talented musical friends are excited to present a once-only free after-school show on the day Boston's 75 street pianos for Celebrity Series' Street Pianos Festival
are unveiled. Her piano is dedicated to acquainting the famous Ragtime
composer Scott Joplin with the inimitable dancer-cum-media-maker
Josephine Baker. This after-school street performance will explore the
history of African-American entertainment through a presentation on
ragtime and jazz.
Performance themes:
*History of how ragtime and jazz ushered in a new era of
African-American entertainment that resisted the racialized iconography
established by minstrel and blackface forms
*Negotiating cultural appropriation in identity creation
*The importance of remembering and learning history in resisting
and critiquing contemporized racialized iconography in big media
Local artists will be joining in this joyful story-telling through live piano, song and dance:
Set 1: Pampi, as Josephine Baker, dance and song | Odaine Williams, piano | Matt Pearsall, clarinet & Friends
Set 2: Justin Francos, piano
Set 3: Banjineh "Op" Browne of Foundation Movement, spoken word
This performance is a production of alpoarrentao Productions, a program of Pampi & Lore.
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Please forward widely, especially to middle and high school teachers in the area who might encourage their students to go
