Negro Baseball League: Sounds and Voices of an Era
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 12:30-1:30
Lipinsky Hall 018 (UNC Asheville Music Department)
Ramsey Library takes great pleasure in inviting you to “Negro Baseball League: Sounds and Voices of an Era,” a celebration of the athletes who broke baseball’s color barrier and the contributions of African Americans to sports, the arts, and culture. This event will feature music, poetry, spoken word, and history of the Negro Baseball League set to jazz accompaniment. Featured performers will include the UNC Asheville Big Band, directed by Dr. David Wilken, and the spoken word talents of UNC Asheville students, faculty, and staff. Lunchtime refreshments will be served. Contact event coordinators Anita White-Carter (whitecar@unca.edu; 251-6436) and Bryan Sinclair (sinclair@unca.edu; 251-6636) for more information.
This event is part of a week-long series of community events, “Spring Training: Baseball in Black and White,” March 11-15, 2008, celebrating the Negro Baseball League and involving the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Guild, UNC Asheville, Asheville High School, Asheville Middle School, Asheville Tourists, Lake Eden Arts Festival, Reid Center, YMI, Stephens-Lee Alumni Association, North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement, Center for Diversity Education, and a broad cross section of our Asheville community. The culminating event will feature a performance of “Pastime,” a new composition by Richard Danielpour based on a poem by Michael S. Harper, as part of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra’s program on Saturday, March 15th. Both the poem and music honor the Negro League and three of its biggest stars: Josh Gibson, Jackie Robinson, and Henry Aaron.
OPEN ACCESS
A recent item in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s News Blog noted that “Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (has) adopted a policy . . . that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online.” In a news release following the vote, “Stuart M. Shieber, a professor of computer science at Harvard who proposed the new policy, said . . . that the decision ‘should be a very powerful message to the academic community that we want and should have more control over how our work is used and disseminated.’” Check out the article and comments at “Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement.”
In other news from the world of “open access,” on February 15 the Chronicle reported that “The American Anthropological Association’s journals will be disseminated through a for-profit publisher for at least the next five years, but scholars are still debating the merits of open access.” See “Some Anthropologists Continue the Slow Push Toward Open Access.”
And finally, in a landmark announcement, the Chronicle of Higher Education recently announced that “Columbia University Press has radically restructured its high-profile experiment with history monographs (and that) . . . Its books are being made available in two online forms, one of them open access.” See “Landmark Digital History Monograph Project Goes Open Access.”
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Posted by Brandy on February 28, 2008 3:50 PM
