USF Presents: “Sensing the City: An Exploration of San Francisco through Sight and Sound” Presidio Lecture Series
“The Bay Area Blues”
A Lecture by Abrol Fairweather (PhD), professor of at the University of San Francisco
- When
- Wed Oct 10, 2012
- Where
- USF Presidio Building
- Time
- 6:00 p.m.
- Tags
- Music, Blues, Education, Universities/Colleges
Description
Centered in the legendary 7th Street corridor of West Oakland from the 1940’s-70’s, the distinct blues music tradition known as “The West Coast Blues” has greatly contributed to the musical genre’s efforts of naming and understanding the deep injustices faced by African Americans in the U.S. This lecture will discuss the rich blues tradition in the Bay Area, and the efforts of The Bay Area Blues Society in preserving this important regional cultural resource for current and future generations of Bay Area residents.Abrol Fairweather (PhD) has been an Instructor in the Department of Philosophy since 1998. His primary research is in the area of Virtue Epistemology (Naturalized Virtue Epistemology, Oxford University Press , forthcoming, but also has very strong personal and academic interests in the Blues. He is the co-editor of Blues: Philosophy For Everyone and his courses on Ethics and The Blues received the Keeping The Blues Alive award by the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame in 2012.
Parking and Transportation: Limited parking available. A free shuttle from USF’s main campus (departing from Golden Gate and Parker Avenues 20 and 50-min prior to the start of the lecture, as well as transportation back to main campus afterward).
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