Presented By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
SMTD@UMMA: The Star-Spangled Banner: Transformation, Translation, Amnesia & Remembrance
Francis Scott Key’s anthem has traversed a 200-year journey from broadside to victory ballad, protest song to anthem and back again. SMTD Professor Mark Clague, author of an upcoming book on this topic, will explore how these processes of translation and transformation comprise a portrait of the nation, past and present in this lecture-recital- discussion featuring tales from the song’s history, interspersed with live performance. UMMA's exhibition Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask similarly recovers the stories of a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 in Angola and looks at how its meaning and value have changed over the course of its journey through many hands to UMMA’s African collection. Prior to the concert, remarks from Traces curator Laura De Becker, will invite us to consider the relationship we have with objects—whether they be songs or masks—in ways both real and symbolic.
The SMTD@UMMA performance series is generously supported by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund and the Greg Hodes and Heidi Hertel Hodes—Partners in the Arts Endowment Fund.
Lead support for the exhibition Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.
The SMTD@UMMA performance series is generously supported by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund and the Greg Hodes and Heidi Hertel Hodes—Partners in the Arts Endowment Fund.
Lead support for the exhibition Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.
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