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From Jazz to Hip Hop

One Maryland One Book Event

Explore the origins and evolution of popular music forms that originated in the African American community.

Vivian Fisher, a Deputy Chief at the Enoch Pratt Free Library & State Library Resource Center, will discuss the social and cultural changes that impacted each genre’s development and revisit the songs and artists who remain timeless influences.

This program is being presented in conjunction with the One Maryland One Book program, sponsored by the Maryland Humanities. No Sense in Wishing: Essays on Black Music, Belonging, and Baltimore by Lawrence Burney was chosen as this year's OMOB and focuses on Burney's thoughts on his home city of Baltimore, music from the global Black diaspora, and the traditions, people, places, music, and art that made shaped his upbringing.

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