Event

Conference: "From the plantation to the ghetto: A journey through the history of Blues"
By Manolo López Poy and the musical performance of the guitarist Martin J. Merino

"From the plantation to the ghetto" is a conference with music and images that narrates the evolution of African-American music since the arrival of the first slaves to the coasts of Virginia in 1619 to the present. It is a historical journey through the blues and avatars of the people who created it, the descendants of those slaves. The narrative stops at life on the plantations, the long racial segregation, the struggle for civil rights, the creation and evolution of the blues as a unifying cultural phenomenon and self-expression of African-Americans and their subsequent evolution and development in an urban blues and electrified that ended up generating the base of popular music of the 20th century. This conference is a summary of the book “Rodo Blues”, which serves as a presentation.

Ateneu l'Harrmonia, c / Sant Adrià 20 (Recinte Fabra i Coats)