Please join Professor Hubert Walters and the Voices of Imani in welcoming Dr. Arthur C. Jones, guest performer from the University of Denver.
Dr. Jones will be performing at Boston College on Thursday, October 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Lyons Hall in Room 423. For more information, or to see a map of the area, please see our contact page.
Coming
to us from Colorado, Dr. Arthur Jones has accomplishments and
accolades that stretch over the artistic and academic fields.
Currently, Dr. Jones is a Senior Clinical Professor of Psychology at
the University of Denver, where his areas of research include cultural
and psychological functions of African American music, African American
and intercultural mental health and spirituality, social justice and
social change, and Jungian psychology. As Dr. Jones writes from his
website, he has "approached this work as both a professional singer and
as a multidisciplinary scholar and teacher."
Dr. Jones will be presenting and series of lecture-concerts in the Boston Area from October 18-20. You can also see him perform on Saturday, October 20, from 1 to 3 p.m. at The Peoples Baptist Church, located at 134 Camden Street in Boston. For more information on this performance, please call : (617) 427-0424
Perfomances
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In
addition to his academic work, Dr. Jones is also the founder of The
Spirituals Project, a non-profit community agency based at the
University of Denver since 1994. The mission of The Spirituals
Project, as stated on their website, is "to preserve and revitalize the
music and teachings of the sacred songs called 'spirituals,' created
and first sung by enslaved Africans in America in the 18th and 19th
centuries." Dr. Jones is a member of the Project's 70-voice
multi-ethnic community choir. The Spirituals Project also features a
multimedia educational website project,
school and community programs, an oral history project, and television
programs.
Critical Praise for Dr. Jones:
“ Arthur Jones…offers us a richly textured, remarkably insightful rendering of the spirituals, their original settings, and their possible meaning for us today…he takes seriously Bernice Johnson Reagon’s concern when she says, ‘I’m not sure if black people can get through the next century without this repertoire.”
Vincent Harding, author, There is a River: The Black Struggle in America
“Once in a while a book comes along that literally sings…Such is ‘Wade in the Water.’ Arthur Jones has done us all a service by recreating the very fiber of African-American culture.”
Andrew Billingsley, author, Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
“ A mesmerizing treatise on the beginning, development and refinement of the Negro Spiritual and its important cultural and psychological meanings….It is a welcome addition to our understanding of humanity.”
Horace Clarence Boyer, author of The Golden Age of Gospel