Goldye di Shvartze Khaznte: Black Woman Cantor of the Harlem Renaissance Era Shahanna McKinney-Baldon in conversation with U-M Professor Bryan Roby

Join in a conversation with Shahanna McKinney-Baldon moderated by U-M Professor Bryan Roby. Shahanna McKinney-Baldon will discuss the story of Madame Goldye Steiner, the groundbreaking African American vocalist of the Harlem Renaissance era whose career spanned vaudeville, Yiddish theater, early jazz, and the “golden age” of Jewish cantorial singing, or khazones. McKinney-Baldon’s research uncovers a vital yet almost forgotten African-American and Jewish story, and uses the lenses of Afrofuturism and Yiddish revivalism to focus a critical and timely discussion on voice, individual and group identity, and the role of the artist-philosopher in periods of political upheaval.

Sponsored by The Network | Jewish People of Color of Greater Ann Arbor.
With support from: Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation, Beth Israel Congregation, Edot Midwest, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor Community Engagement Fund, and , U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies