When I deleted my Twitter account on April 27, 2022, I woke up later that morning with a clear mind and the intention to write a book based on my dissertation research. With my study on the Go-Go music-cultural community, I had developed a framework called Being of the Community that provides an alternative way…
Author: Tahira Mahdi
Beats & Breaks for Free Fall Baltimore 2019
Saturday, October 26, 2019 – 6:30pm Arch Social Club 2426 Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore Arch Social Club invites the public to explore lesser-known musical histories of Maryland’s diverse African American populations. For more, visit Beats & Breaks for Free Fall Baltimore
UMBC’s BreakingGround in ‘Urban University’ Blog
Read about UMBC’s BreakingGround initiative in a recent post on Urban University, a blog managed by the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU)/Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). The author is David Hoffman, Assistant Director of Student Life for Civic Agency at UMBC. The post includes a brief version of BreakingGround’s origin story and…
“Art As Protest” at UMBC
Tonight at UMBC, the “Art as Protest” event! In addition to artists and audience members, we invite qualitative researchers to join us in a study of the themes from this event. We encourage participants to use the hashtags #ArtasProtestUMBC and #ArtAsProtest on social media during the event. These posts will be our data, as Baltimore…