Join us for an engaging presentation by Dr. Tyina Steptoe: “Soul Stories: Music and Community through History,” Nov. 15 (10a) at the Center of Creative Photography as part of the AIAR Speaker Series. Admission is free.
Steptoe hosts a weekly radio program called “Soul Stories” on 91.3 KXCI Tucson. The show explores the roots and branches of rhythm and blues music. In this interactive presentation, she will discuss how her community engagement on KXCI relates to her work as a historian. She will demonstrate how she creates episodes of “Soul Stories,” while showing how music shapes her research and teaching.
Tyina Steptoe was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in Afro-American studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also earned a B.S. in radio-television-film and a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at Austin.
AIAR Speaker Series
Soul Stories: Music and Community through History
Associate Professor Dr. Tyina Steptoe
Friday, Nov. 15, 10a
Center for Creative Photography, Room 108
Admission is free.
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Steptoe’s work focuses on race, gender and culture in the United States. She is an associate professor in history at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Her book, “Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City” (University of California Press 2016), examines how the migration of black East Texans, Creoles of color, and ethnic Mexicans complicated notions of race in Houston between the 1920s and 1960s. She is also the editor of “Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle” (Library of America, 2024).
AIAR Speaker Series
The AIAR Speaker Series seeks to promote critical and creative discussion about Applied lntercultural Arts Research practices through interactive presentations by AIAR affiliated faculty members and engaged community artists and scholars.
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