Session 1 (Units 1-2): The Goodness of God: Critical Gastromusicology and Research Methods
Sat, Feb 03
|Zoom
Have you ever experienced food that makes you wanna sing? This expression is an aesthetic value at the core of African-American gastromusicology (music & foodways). This course comprises live & recorded courses that cover 8 units of critical gastromusicology. Manual included. (Details below)
Time & Location
Feb 03, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Zoom
About the Event
Seasoning: A Course in Gastromusicology
Shortly after the term “soul food” was popularized on the heels of the “soul music” genre, culinary anthropologist and Sun Ra touring musician Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor published the cookbook-memoir Vibration Cooking or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (1970). In the tradition of Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographic research and Ms. Edna Lewis’ culinary culture-bearing, Vibration Cooking challenged the primacy of the “soul food” concept by centring on food as a source of pride, a site of sensuality, an art of multisensory storytelling, a validation of Black womanhood and Black consciousness-raising. Deeply rooted in her musical experiences, Smart-Grosvenor wrote, “When I cook, I never measure or weigh anything. I cook by vibration.” Through her cultural anthropological writing, she pinned an intersection of music/sound, sensuality, and culinary perception that has yet to be explored through the lens of music or sound studies.
Probing that constellation of soulful, musical, sensual, and culinary perception, the textbook Seasoning: A Course in Gastromusicology is a ground-breaking critical investigation into the interconnectedness of African American embodiment, oral transmission, cultural production, wealth extraction, and consumption in the global marketplace as emblematic of what I coin as gastromusicophysics or multisensory “taste.” Highly competent culture-bearers in the marketplace that I call “ultrasonic tastemakers” resonate with and register their talent, tapping into high vibrations, and frequencies of creative expressions, decision making and influencing what is, will be, and their products endure as en vogue, succulent, and mellifluous.
Units Covered
Unit 1 -- Basic Gastromusicology Research Methods
Unit 2 -- GOODNESS: An Introduction to Critical Gastromusicology
Unit 3 -- The Vagina Dentata: The Unutterable Confluence of Diet, Discordance, and Black Sexual Purity in Gospel Music.
Unit 4 -- On Soundness, Despite Seasoning: Tortured Lullabies as Work Songs
Unit 5 -- The Sound of Wise Women: The Poetics of Smoky Sizzling Inventiveness and Preservation in Kitchen Beauty Salons
Unit 6 -- “I Don’t Want No Peanut Butter and Jelly”: Indulgence Management and the Loss of Appetite for the “Wrong Food”
Unit 7 -- Global Tastemakers: Touring Musicians Cooking Food that Makes You Want to Sing
Unit 8 -- COMMUNION: “Bad Blood” Stigmata and Remembrance
Session Dates:
*All Sessions are First Saturdays from 10 am - Noon
**Sesssion 1: Units 1 and 2 **
3 Feb, 2024
Session 2: Units 3 and 4
2 March, 2024
Session 3: Units 4 and 5
6 April
Session4: Units 6 and 7
4 May
Session 5: Unit 8
1 June
Fee Schedule
Session 1 (Units 1-2)** $150 Mandatory Session (Live and Recorded)
All Sessions Package: $772.10
Individual Sessions: $108.88
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Session 1 (Units 1-2)
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