Guthrie Ramsey in Conversation with Stefon Harris

On December 14, 2023, Guthrie Ramsey conducted a master class and spoke with Rutgers-Newark faculty member Stefon Harris as part of Express Newark’s “Blues People” exhibition. Dr. Ramsey opened the afternoon with an excerpt of a film he produced “to tell part of the history of African American music.” For the balance of the lecture, Ramsey explored examples of and pedagogical processes related to a type of “vocalization and musicianship” central to Black musicking in America that “gets passed along through oral and aural culture.” Ramsey and Harris's wide ranging coversation returned to many of these themes while addressing Dr. Ramsey's scholarship--past, present and future.