Interview Transcript of Black Music Matters and The Black Messiah Album: An Interview with Adrian Dunn

Adrian Dunn; Leah Gipson; Marisol Norris

doi:10.15845/voices.v21i1.3291

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Adrian Dunn Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University, USA
Leah Gipson Art Therapy & Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Marisol Norris Creative Arts Therapies & Counseling, Drexel University, USA

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https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3291

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The Black Messiah Album, Adrian Dunn, The Adrian Dunn Singers, Black Music Matters

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In einem Audio-Interview bespricht Adrian Dunn sein Album The Black Messiah mit Leah Gipson und Marisol Norris. Als Kommentar zum religiösen Leben in den USA wurde die Musik erstmals in dem Jahr aufgeführt, in dem Donald Trump zum Präsidenten gewählt wurde - als Widerstand gegen den vorherrschenden, weißen, christlichen Nationalismus und gegen Hassreden. Dunn versuchte, diese Geschichte in einem Album zu bewahren. Dunn erklärt, dass The Black Messiah die Befreiung und Gerechtigkeit der Schwarzen bestärkt und sieht die Verantwortung dafür bei jedem einzelnen als das Werk der humanen Gemeinschaft. Die Diskussion reflektiert über amerikanische Musiktraditionen, Narrative, schwarze Spiritualität und eine integrale Beziehung zwischen Musik und Freiheit.

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Adrian Dunn, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University, USA

Adrian Dunn is an accomplished singer, songwriter, and producer. Dunn holds a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree in Voice from The Music Conservatory at Roosevelt University with additional musical studies in opera at The Sibelius Academy of Music in Finland. Dunn is faculty at Roosevelt University, and Advisor for Racial Equity and Minority Student Success in the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA. He has sung with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Grant Park Symphony Chorus, Blossom Festival Chorus, and as a soloist with the North Shore Choral Society. Dunn has sung in the CCM Spoleto Opera Festival in Spoleto, Italy and is a frequent soloist in Handel’s Messiah. He served as the opera chorus master for the midwest premiere of the opera Harriet Tubman – When I Crossed That Line to Freedom (2016) with the South Shore Opera Company of Chicago, and sang the lead role in the Chicago premiere of the Paul Laurence Dunbar opera The Poet (2017).

Leah Gipson, Art Therapy & Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Leah Gipson is Assistant Professor in the Art Therapy and Counseling Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is a registered and board-certified art therapist (ATR-BC), and a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois, with a Master of Theological Studies. Leah is a board member for A Long Walk Home, an organization that uses the arts to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. She is also a board member of Praxis, an organization that provides affordable, democratically managed housing to individuals and families involved in social justice movement building. She is a co-founder of the BIPOC Student Fund by Black Arts Therapy Educators and an organizing member of the Critical Pedagogy in the Arts Therapies Alliance, formed in 2018.

Marisol Norris, Creative Arts Therapies & Counseling, Drexel University, USA

Marisol Norris, PhD, is a music therapist, critical arts therapies educator, cultural worker, and founder of the Black Music Therapy Network, Inc. Her music therapy practice and supervisory experience have spanned medical and community health settings and include music therapy with adolescents experiencing housing insecurity, adults with psychiatric and dual diagnoses, families within the city court system and medically fragile children. These experiences have profoundly contributed to her multicultural relational lens and her dedication to fostering culturally sustaining, liberatory frameworks in music therapy education and practice. Her teaching and cultural work is an extension of a broader commitment to healing justice and dismantling relational and structural violence through community-based advocacy, education, and action.

Interview-Transkript von Black Music Matters und dem Black Messiah Album

Ein Interview mit Adrian Dunn

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Adrian Dunn, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University, USA

Leah Gipson, Art Therapy & Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Marisol Norris, Creative Arts Therapies & Counseling, Drexel University, USA

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