How Black Music Took Over the World: A Book Discussion with Melvin Gibbs
Book talk on Black musical influence and credit
Based in Brooklyn, United States
This is a conversation, not a performance. Expect Melvin Gibbs talking through the book’s ideas about the 'cell' and the 'frame', with Dylan Green drawing him into questions of lineage, credit, and how music moves across media and communities.
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Melvin Gibbs is a Brooklyn-bred composer, musician, artist, and writer, and the book is released by Basic Books. Dylan Green is a co-founder of Hearing Things and a writer who covers rap, film, and politics; together they frame the book inside Black music as a system of knowledge and a history of transmission.
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- 2026-11-06 2026-11-06T11:00:00 · How Black Music Took Over the World: A Book Discussion with Melvin Gibbs · Theater Utrecht
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