Description: The Auburn Avenue Research Library, will host Rhythms of The Exodus: Cultural Genocide and Black Musical Survivance. This community dialogue featuring Amir “Dr. KnuckleHead” Whitaker Ed.D, Esq., will explore the histories of various musical genres crafted out of Black Diaspora (including various categories of contemporary Trap music) focusing specifically on the global history and ongoing criminalization of Black musical expression. Facilitated by Georgia State University, Doctoral Student, Shady Patterson this event will include a musical performance by Trapbonist and street musician, EryktheRadical who will present a demonstration of trap techniques using a trombone and talk about his experience as a global street performer and his related encounters with local law enforcement. The concept of Black Survivance is rooted in the scholarship Native American Studies cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, that describes survivance as the renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry, in which contemporary Native American peoples go beyond merely subsisting in the ruins of tribal cultures to actively inheriting and refashioning those cultures for the postmodern age.

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