Spiritual Music and the Brain

Friday, September 19, 2014 - 12:00pm
UA Poetry Center Rubel Room 1508 E. Helen Street Tucson, AZ 85721

Please join us for a presentation of the theory of the positive impact on the brain created by singing the Antebellum Negro Spiritual.

Presenters include Melinda H. Connor, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and Science Advisor for the Georgia and Nolan Payton Archive of Sacred Music, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Sallyanne Payton, J.D., William W. Cook Professor of Law Emerita, University of Michigan Law School and Project Director, Spirituals for the 21st Century, Georgia and Nolan Payton Archive of Sacred Music, California State University, Dominguez Hills; and Hansonia Caldwell, Ph.D., Professor of Music Emerita, California State University, Dominguez Hills and Founding Director, Spirituals for the 21st Century, Georgia and Nolan Payton Archive of Sacred Music, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

This event is free and open to the public.