Black Music Division
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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 Bennington Jazz Weekend (Program and Panel Transcription)(Bennington College, 1964-04)Item Jazz Weekend Participant & Guest Participant lists(Bennington College, 1964-04)Item Bennington College Weekend Shows Off New Sounds of Jazz(Bennington Banner, 1964-04) Tate, LisaItem EPC Report - Music I - Bill Dixon(Bennington College, 1969) LaRocque, AnnetteItem Milford Graves Performs(Bennington College, 1970)Milford Graves, Bennington College faculty member 1973-2012Item John Hagen(Bennington College, 1970)Item Music Division Meeting Minutes(Bennington College, 1972-03-15)Item Proposal for a Department of Black Music(1972-05-08) Cheatham, JimmyWe propose that a division called Black Music should be established, so that a comprehensive study of Black Music is possible. There must be at least three faculty members to start this division. Several teaching assistantships should also be established. This would enable musicians under financial stress to share their knowledge for the right to take classes for credit as well as a salary. Studies must be provided on an equal level in terms of space and quality with the other performing arts divisions in order t o provide an equally broad coverage of the subject.Item Minutes of the Faculty Educational Policies Committee and Attachments(Bennington College, 1972-05-10) Dowling, MargaretThe Galley referenced in the minutes is entitled, "Proposal for a Department of Black Music."Item Music Division Meeting Minutes(Bennington College, 1972-05-24)Item Music Division Meeting Minutes(Bennington College, 1972-09-27) Calabro, LouisItem FEPC Minutes and Attachments(Bennington College, 1972-11-30) ;The Galley referenced in the attachments to the minutes is entitled, "Proposal for a Department of Black Music." This packet also contains FEPC Minutes for 5/10/72.Item Bill Dixon and Glynis Loman - Jack Moore's Improvisation Class 1973-1974(Bennington College, 1973)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty member 1968-1995.Item Quadrille, Vol 7, No 3/4(Bennington College, 1973) Fortney, Alan Jon; Johnson, Stephanie Louise; Cumpston, CatherineArticles: Gail Thain Parker Inaugurated at 1973 Commencement / Emminent Anthropologists Honor Ruth L. Bunzel / Ronald L. Cohen Named New Dean of Studies / Thomas Jeremiah Carroll Drowns at The Tubs / Poetry and Prose Read at Bennington / Green Mountain Poets at Skidmore College / A Blending of Graphics and Poetry / Bennington College Goes Beyond its Gates / Is the American City In a State of Siege? ("Participating were 15 noted architects, city planners, and government officials who are currently involved with various aspects of urban life and city planning") / The Arts Building: Groundbreaking and Beyond / Art Film Series Shown at College and in town / "Journey to a Clear Place" - and other Dances / New York Shows for Four Bennington Artists (Thelma Appel Witkin, Isaac Witkin, Dick Haas, Brower Hatcher) / Prison Photography: Behind the Walls at Comstock (Neil Rappaport) / Feminist Film Festival Tops Film Schedule (A five-day Women 's Film Festival , organized by Camille Paglia, Gail Parker and Sarah Rodman) / Four Plays Presented by Drama Division (Nova Funk, The Hostage, Recipe, and on original play by Larry Atlas) / Nova Funk: Off to Greener Planets / The Hostage: Talent and Feeling for the Play / Funds Raised for Saigon's ToAm (Warm Nest) Nursery / (photo: This May the Pinewoods Morris Men and Women toured Bennington's campus) / Bill Dixon Directs "Sequences and Events in Music" / Vivian Fine's 'Inventive and Elegant Works" / Concerts at and Around Bennington College / Unfair to Chief Boohoo / Calabro Founds Sage City Symphony, Conducts at Armory / Student Council Founds Annual Student Scholarship / Parkers: Presidential Duties Plus / College Expresses Thanks As N.Y. Office Moves / Leonard Rowe Book Fund Established / Alumni Council Holds Annual Meeting on Campus / Governance Plan Voted Down (Almost) / New Publications Schedule / Summer Activities at Bennington /Item Item Music Division Meeting Minutes(Bennington College, 1973-03-28) Calabro, LouisThe division drafted a statement concerning Black Music which it then presented to the FEPC.Item Bill Dixon conducts rehearsal for his concert - May 1973(Bennington College, 1973-05)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty 1968-1995.Item Bill Dixon Conducts - May 11, 1973(Bennington College, 1973-05-11)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty 1968-1995.Item Bill Dixon rehearsing for his concert - May 11, 1973(Bennington College, 1973-05-11)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty member 1968-1995.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.