Goldye di Shvartze Khaznte: Black Woman Cantor of the Harlem Renaissance Era

Join in a conversation with Shahanna McKinney-Baldon moderated by Professor Bryan Roby, on the story of Madame Goldye Steiner, the trailblazing African-American vocalist of the Harlem Renaissance era whose career spanned vaudeville, Yiddish theater, early jazz, and the “golden age” of Jewish cantorial singing, or khazones. McKinney-Baldon's research uncovers a vital yet almost forgotten African-American and Jewish story, and uses the lenses of Afrofuturism and Yiddish revivalism to focus a critical and timely discussion on voice, individual and group identity, and the role of the artist-philosopher in periods of political upheaval.

Hosted by The Network: Jewish People of Color of Greater Ann Arbor