“As an artist I ask myself Dr. King’s question every day. What am I doing for others?”
Vijay Iyer is a Grammy-nominated composer-pianist and professor of music at Harvard University whose most recent honors include a 2013 MacArthur fellowship. Iyer’s work as an artist rests on the foundation of his social and political activism, and on Thursday he will come to Princeton University to discuss, with Professor Noriko Manabe, questions of art and activism especially with regard to structural racism in America.
Noriko Manabe is an assistant professor in the Music Department at Princeton University. She studies the relationships between music and social movements and is the author of books such as The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Music and the Antinuclear Movement in Japan Post-Fukushima Daiichi and The Revolution Remixed: A Typology of Intertextuality in Protest Songs.
Join us if you love Iyer’s music or care about issue of art, race, social justice, and how these things relate to each other.