The Erasure of African Roots in Music

After attending the first film in the three-part Africana Film Series at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Andrea Cunliffe invited the curator of the series, Prof. Kevin Hickey, back onto HMM to go deeper into the ideas that this series explores. For more information: www.acphs.edu/africana-film-series The schedule of the series: 07 February Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories (the African roots of Spanish flamenco) 14 February The Mali-Cuba Connection / Africa MIA (Mali’s influence on Cuban music) 28 February Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango