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  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session Two: William Dawson, Up Close.
  • Session Two: William Dawson, Up Close.
  • Session Two: William Dawson, Up Close.
  • Session Three: The Spirituals: Meaning and Mythology in African American Identity.
  • Session Three: The Spirituals: Meaning and Mythology in African American Identity.
  • Session Three: The Spirituals: Meaning and Mythology in African American Identity.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Seven: The Ecology of the Music: Identity, Artistic Expectation, and Arts Institutions.
  • Session Seven: The Ecology of the Music: Identity, Artistic Expectation, and Arts Institutions.
  • Session Seven: The Ecology of the Music: Identity, Artistic Expectation, and Arts Institutions.
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Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.

Archivist Marva Carter uses her discoveries from the Dawson archives to chronicle Dawson's life and work and its relationship to the Tuskegee Institute--and through it, Booker T. Washington. She opens with an account of Dawson's marching behind Washington's hearse, his saving of a flower from Washington's funeral, and his use of a brick from Washington's house in his own chimney--at the center of his home. She continues by outlining the ways in which Washington's teachings and concepts influenced Dawson throughout his career.