Award winning banjoist and author Stephen Wade explores how American music reinvents itself as individuals reshape the songs and tunes of a common, shared repertoire.  Through live music and images, Wade will discuss this meeting of the personal and historical: how in the act of putting their hands on a traditional tune, gifted players transform it while connecting it to its history and to their own communities.Hosted by: University of Illinois Press

In conjunction with: Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Dance, Department of English, Department of Theatre, Division of Musicology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, School of Music, Sousa Archive and Center for American Music, Spurlock Museum, Champaign-Urbana Folk and Roots Festival, Community Center for the Arts (C4A)