AFS Media Workshop, Director: Dr. W. McAdoo

Day one, first panel on Coltrane, Monk and Jazz Criticism: Salim Washington, Brooklyn College, speaking on Baraka's writings on John Coltrane; Robin Kelley, Columbia University, speaking on Baraka's writings on Thelonius Monk; John Gennari, University of Vermont, speaking on Baraka's crucial role in 1960s jazz criticism; Scot Brown, UCLA, speaking on Baraka's role in African American cultural nationalism. Moderator: Komozi Woodard.

Day one, second panel with Farah Jasmine Griffin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of African American Studies at Columbia University, speaking on chapter 7 of Blues people which focuses on women blues singers; Daphne Duval Harrison, Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, speaking on the foregrounding of study of music in the African American experience; Mark Anthony Neal, scheduled to speak but absent. Moderator: Mary Dillard, Professor of African History, Sarah Lawrence College.

Day one, third panel with Travis Jackson, University of Chicago, giving a talk entitled Multiple reflections: Blues people as blessing and curse; Ingrid Monson, Professor of Music and African American Studies at Harvard University, giving a talk entitled Blues people: Amiri Baraka as a social theorist.