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Black Music courses were listed in the curriculum as extra-divisional or interdisciplinary courses from 1968- Spring 1974. From Fall 1974 - Spring 1984 Black Music courses were listed in the curriculum as Black Music or Black Music Division. After Fall 1985 courses were listed in the curriculum under Music.
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Item Bill Dixon Interview(1973-05-15) Dixon, BillBill Dixon interview - May 1973. Topics include: 0:52 his childhood growing up in Nantucket, MA and 6:48 Harlem, NYC, 13:44 his school P.S. 89, 22:00 seeing Louis Armstrong play, 24:48 getting his first instrument at age 16, 25:00 attending art school, 32:00 hearing bands at the Apollo, studying music at age 20, 42:53 racism, 43:08 his time in the US Army, 44:00 studying at the Art Students League, 44:16 the GI Bill, 54:00 working on a retrospective of his work,1:01:20 relationships with other musicians, the elusive quality of happiness, playing at Cafe Bohemia and Birdland, and planning the Black Music Festival at Bennington College.Item Bill Dixon Questions Bernie Iser about Commons Renovations (Memo)(Bennington College, 1978-05-30) Dixon, BillItem Black Music Division Lack of Space(1976-09) Brooks, Art; Horenstein, Stephen; Ash, Jay; Dixon, Bill; Hoyer, Jeff; Milford, Graves"Due to the inadequacy of the space situation as it currently exists at the college for the practical implementation of teaching and the work of students in the Division (and we need not mention that occasional performances arise out of such situations), all classes in the Black Music Division will be indefinitely cancelled."Item Black Music Division Record Library(1982) Dixon, BillThis is a list of records (LPs) in the Black Music Library collections. The records were on reserve in Crossett Library. Students submitted a list of requested records (up to 5) and reserved a time in the listening room (Jennings 214). The records were delivered to the room for the allotted listening time in 90 minutes blocks. The Listening Room was open 1:00 pm-3:00 pm and 7:00 pm-10:00 pm Mon-Fri, 1:00-4:00 pm Sat & Sun. A "Listening Room Monitor" was available during these hours.Item Black Music Division Workshop Jimmy Lyons on Improvisation(1974-11) Dixon, BillItem Curriculum and Class Scheduling for 1975/76 [memo circulated to Division Secretaries from your office 13 March 1975](Bennington College, 1975-04-15) Dixon, BillThe following pages are in response to your above mentioned memo.Item Documents Relating to Adding More Space for the Black Music Division(Bennington College, 1977-10-26) Dixon, Bill; Black Music StudentsWe never did get in writing from your office, as promised, the college's commitment to the Division about the use of the space that we now have; in other words it appears that our use of the current space hinges upon a verbal 'agreement' and we know how those things workItem Documents Relating to the Black Music Division(Bennington College, 1981-09) Williams II, John H.; Atkins, Carl J.; Dixon, BillIn short, instead of being accepted and esteemed for its contribution to the arts and its message for society, the Bennington College Community has in part isolated Black Music. Camille Paglia of the Literature Division, and one of the few champions of Black Music, explained this phenomenon at the dedication of VAPA in 1976 in a speech of tribute to Bill Dixon: "There is no consolation here: those who seek assurance of the principle of benevolence pervading the universe will not find it in Bill Dixon's music. For the tradition of black music of which he is an advanced exponent, the reality of experience is suffering, pain, sacrifice, bitterness, anger. In the urgency of this black music at its most intense we find untamed energy, a violence of emotion and expression...the Black music that is practiced at Bennington is still unabsorbed by the bourgeoisie, for it is too raw, savage, unnerving; it possesses too much enriching estrangement, too much 'metaphysical uneasiness'"Item Journal of Contemporary Black Music Aesthetics(1974-10-08) Dixon, Bill"The Black Music Division is in the process of assembling manuscripts, articles, essays, art work, photos, etc. for a Journal of Contemporary Black Music Aesthetics. Since this Journal will be emanating from Bennington College it is quite appropriate that the design for the cover of this Journal should come from a member of the student body. This then is to announce a sort of competition, competition in the sense that the design deemed most appropriate for this Journal will be the one used."Item Item THIS //// is OUR Strategy(Bennington College, 1976-05-22) Dixon, Bill; Tristman, Richard; Paglia, Camille; Agard, Robert