Film montage on “The Ride of the Valkyries” in films; film essay on Wagnerism vs Afrofuturism; James Monroe Trotter museum vitrine; George E. Lewis museum vitrine

Class Interview with George E. Lewis

Composer, Professor of American Music, Columbia University

“The Battle of the Books” in A Century of Infamy

William Peirce Randel

“The Ride of the Valkyries”

Richard Wagner

Cabiria

Giovanni Pastrone

(1914)

Black Panther

Ryan Coogler

(2018)

The Klansman

Thomas Dixon

(1905)

Music and Some Highly Musical People

James Monroe Trotter

(1978)

The Comet

W.E. B. Du Bois

(1920)

“Princess Steel”

W.E. B. Du Bois

(1905)