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X-WR-CALNAME:FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Alfred Martin 'Ease on Down the
  Road?: Engaging the Serious Study of The Wiz as a Scholar and a Fan'
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DESCRIPTION:"Growing up in Motown\, the music of Motown and the films of Mo
 town Productions were omnipresent in my life. As long as I can remember I 
 was a fan of the film\, The Wiz. The first Broadway show I saw was The Wiz
  in 1983 at Detroit’s Masonic Theatre. The first play I “produced” w
 as in third grade – and it was The Wiz. Two years later\, my school\, Ve
 tal\, produced a full- scale production of The Wiz in which I was a featur
 ed dancer (The “Eye” of the Tornado). This talk traces these humble be
 ginnings as a fan-producer of The Wiz to a scholar working on a book about
  the film. That is\, this presentation is about the ways\, particularly wi
 thin a socio-political environment hostile to Blackness\, The Wiz provides
  a prism through which to place the “I” and Black joy into research. E
 ngaging media industry studies\, fandom/reception studies\, and media stud
 ies\, this presentation argues that neither the “I” nor Black joy comp
 romises the rigor of academic scholarship. " -Alfred Martin\n\n(Co-sponsor
 ship with Center for the Study of Race\, Ethnicity & Equity\, Department o
 f African & African American Studies\, and American Culture Studies)
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LOCATION:Seigle Hall\, 106
SUMMARY:FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Alfred Martin 'Ease on Down the Road
 ?: Engaging the Serious Study of The Wiz as a Scholar and a Fan'
URL;VALUE=URI:https://happenings.washu.edu/event/fms-colloquium-lecture-ser
 ies-alfred-martin-ease-on-down-the-road-engaging-the-serious-study-of-the-
 wiz-as-a-scholar-and-a-fan
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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