Past event: CANCELLED. Talking Blues
This event has now finished. Please see our events website for details of upcoming events at Brookes.
Wednesday 21 March 2012, 18:00 until 19:00
Open to all
Location
Main Lecture Theatre, Clerici Building, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Details
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled, sorry if this has caused any inconvenience.
Professor Paul Oliver, MBE, is a distinguished academic in architecture and a leading authority on the Blues. Professor Oliver has been Associate Head of the Oxford School of Architecture (1978-88), Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, author of several influential books in Architecture including Dwellings (1987), Dunroamin (1981) the Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture spanning 3 volumes and 2500 pages (1997).
He has written 10 books on the blues including Bessie Smith 1959 and Barrelhouse Blues in 2009. He has lectured, published and written extensively all round the world.
Professor Oliver will be talking to us about his first hand field work interviewing blues singers, from the very famous who recorded extensively, to singers known only in their local community from the rural south to the urban north. The audience will have the pleasure to listen to some of his original recordings with the blues.
This lecture is the second annual Brookes Society Lecture.
