THE COLORED WAITING ROOM

Trumpeter Tony Smith is waiting with us in The Colored Waiting Room and lets us know what he is waiting for.

Be a part of The Colored Waiting Room Project by submitting your response to “What are you waiting for?” through “Submit” on this page or by email to ramseymusic (at) gmail.com. You can also tweet responses by using the hashtag #TheColoredWaitingRoom. 

Producer and photographer Morgan Rogers waits with us in “The Colored Waiting Room.” 

Be a part of The Colored Waiting Room Project by submitting your response to “What are you waiting for?” through “Submit” on this page or by email to ramseymusic (at) gmail.com. You can also tweet responses by using the hashtag #TheColoredWaitingRoom. 

Hammond B3 player and recent University of Pennsylvania graduate Austin Woodlin joins us in “The Colored Waiting Room.” 

Be a part of The Colored Waiting Room Project by submitting your response to “What are you waiting for?” through “Submit” on this page or by email to ramseymusic (at) gmail.com. You can also tweet responses by using the hashtag #TheColoredWaitingRoom. 

Poet and hip hop artist Chris Syms joins us in “The Colored Waiting Room” and he lets us know what he is waiting for.

Be a part of The Colored Waiting Room Project by submitting your response to “What are you waiting for?” through “Submit” on this page or by email to ramseymusic (at) gmail.com. You can also tweet responses by using the hashtag #TheColoredWaitingRoom. 

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Left of Black S2:E17 | January 30, 2012

Memories of the Chitlin Circuit and Education in the Digital Age

w/ Professor Guthrie Ramsey and Professor Cathy Davidson

Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by University of Pennsylvania professor, author, and musician Guthrie Ramsey. Neal and Ramsey discuss the release of The Colored Waiting Room, a new recording from Ramsey’s band Dr. Guy’s MusiQology.  The two scholars discuss the idea of  “colored waiting rooms” as metaphors for the private aspects of Black culture and how critical such spaces were to the cultivation of  Black culture. 

Later, Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Cathy Davidson, professor of Interdisciplinary studies and English at Duke University.  Davidson is the author  of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn The Duke colleagues discuss the impact of digital technology in the classroom and whether infants are aware of race.

Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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Episodes of Left of Black are also available for download @ iTunes U

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Remembering “The Colored Waiting Room” and the “Myth” of a Culture of Distraction on the January 30^th ‘Left of Black’

Left of Black Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by University of Pennsylvania professor, author, and musician Guthrie Ramsey. Neal and Ramsey discuss the release of The Colored Waiting Room, a new recording from Ramsey’s band Dr. Guy’s MusiQology.  The two scholars discuss the idea of  “colored waiting rooms” as metaphors for the private aspects of Black culture and how critical such spaces were to the cultivation of  Black culture. 

Later, Neal is joined in the Left of Black studio by Cathy Davidson, professor of Interdisciplinary studies and English at Duke University.  Davidson is the author  of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn The Duke colleagues discuss the impact of digital technology in the classroom and whether infants are aware of race.

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Left of Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.   

Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. 

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Follow Guthrie Ramsey on Twitter: @DrGuyMusiQology

Follow Cathy Davidson on Twitter: @CathyNDavidson

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University of Pennsylvania’s Director of Jazz Wade Dean is waiting in The Colored Waiting Room. 

Be a part of The Colored Waiting Room Project by submitting your response to “What are you waiting for?” through “Submit” on this page or by email to ramseymusic (at) gmail.com. You can also tweet your response by using the hashtag #TheColoredWaitingRoom. 

Musician Ernest Stuart lets us know what he is waiting for as he waits with us in The Colored Waiting Room. 

Be a part of The Colored Waiting Room Project by submitting your response to “What are you waiting for?” through “Submit” on this page or by email to ramseymusic (at) gmail.com. You can also tweet response by using the hashtag #TheColoredWaitingRoom. 

Guitarist Chris Odom is waiting in The Colored Waiting Room. 

Join us and take part in The Colored Waiting Room Project by submitting your response to “What are you waiting for?”. Chosen submissions will be posted on TheColoredWaitingRoom.com. 

Grammy award winner Bobby Eli is waiting with us in The Colored Waiting Room. 

Let us know “What are you waiting for?” by submitting your responses in whatever format you see fit via “Submit” on this page. Chosen submissions will be posted on TheColoredWaitingRoom.com. 

Producer J. Anthony ThompSon answers the question “What are you waiting for?” as he waits with us in The Colored Waiting Room. 

Let us know “What are you waiting for?” by submitting your responses through “Submit” on this page. 

This is the first video of The Colored Waiting Room project’s “What Are You Waiting For?” video series. Vocalist Denise King is waiting.  Let us know “What are you waiting for?” by submitting your video, photos, artwork, music and any other format through “Submit” on this page. Chosen submissions will be posted in The Colored Waiting Room.

We’re excited to share with you today the first single from Dr. Guy’s Musiqology’s The Colored Waiting Room project, “Stolen Moments.” The song’s message evokes the ideas of enticement, desire and fulfillment.  It musically frames those private and pleasurable “stolen moments” that might begin with a simple phone call, the curious intensity of a passing glance, that something in an acquaintance’s tone of voice that all suggests promise. Poet and writer Honorée Jeffers has written a meditation on this idea from a woman’s perspective. Check it out—then listen to and enjoy vocalist Denise King’s sultry and subtle vibe on this hot Dr. Guy’s Musiqology track! 

For a free download of “Stolen Moments” go to: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/drguysmusiqology2

Learn more about the album at http://musiqology.com/2011/11/29/the-colored-waiting-room-presents-dr-guys-musiqology/ & http://musiqology.com/2012/01/17/what-are-you-waiting-for-colored-waiting-room-single-drops-friday/

Stolen Moments

A grown woman knows what she wants. Knows how to give, knows how to—I want a house on the beach.  Did I tell you that? Windows facing the water. Sun coming up in the morning, after a long night, so sweet. A king-sized bed because I need a lot of room to move in the hours that belong to me. (Please.) And lots of music. I like to hear a man playing his piano in the background, all that sweet night. All those long hours. The keys, his fingers reminding me of when we—now when can you come over? Maybe around midnight, later?  It’s been a while. (If you like, I’ll say please.) I miss you. You miss me. Of course, I know you do. You miss how we—and the sand under my feet. The long walks into nowhere. The thoughts of you I can’t shake from my head.  Music, my king-sized lonely, a brother’s soft, calloused hands—what time? I’ll take off early if you need. It’s been too long. I can keep secrets, even the best ones about music and a moon and wide-open windows. Songs of high, night notes a woman likes to sing. Glimpses of a man in the sun, before he has to leave me—I can’t even lie. I like to steal sometimes. But I do give back, willingly. And I want, but I never tell. No one has to know. That’s what makes us grown.

~Honorée Jeffers

Welcome to The Colored Waiting Room.