DJ Scholarship: Diggin’ Through the Crates of Black Women’s Lives

Led by DJ Lynnée Denise

When: March 12th, 2023

Time: 9am PST, 12pm EST

Where: Zoom | Cost: Free!

In this workshop, Lynnée discussed their approach to writing about musicians and discussed that approach as a methodology that works as a liberation practice that protects the humanity of artists, highlights their legacies, and recognizes the social conditions that produced the work they've contributed to the sonic archives of Black life.

Lynnée Denise is an artist, scholar, writer, and DJ whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African Diaspora. Denise coined the phrase “DJ Scholarship” to re-position the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist, cultural custodian, and information specialist of music with critical value. Through interactive workshops, lectures, and presentations at universities, conferences, and performance venues, Denise harnesses music as a medium for vital public dialogue on how to transform the way that music of the Black Atlantic is understood in its social context and beyond entertainment. Denise lives and works in between Amsterdam and London.