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Cornel West “The Musical Vocation in our Bleak Times”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Dr. West delivered the UC Regents’ Lecture “The Musical Vocation in our Bleak Times,” in Schoenberg Hall at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Dr. West’s decades-long status as a leading public intellectual – and philosopher, activist, musician, and actor – brought an enthusiastic crowd.
“Cornel West’s lecture, “The Musical Vocation in our Bleak Times,” was anything but dreary. West believes music is a vocation, not a profession, grounded in the spirit and speaking truth with honesty and integrity. He traced the subversive power of music back to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato and through the soul music of the legendary Curtis Mayfield. West’s concept of integrity stretched from 19th century transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson to author Henry James to human-rights activists Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Source: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/cornel-west-delivers-ucla-regents-lecture/
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