Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

Cincinnati Sounds presents a double feature film screening of directors’ cuts of the documentaries Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City’s Spaces, Places, and Sounds directed by Melissa Godoy and co-produced with Davison Black at CCM Recording Productions and King of Them All: The Story of King Records by Yemi Oyediran and co-produced with JP Leong. This community engagement event hosted by Cincinnati World Cinema* includes a moderated public talkback and storytelling.

Cincinnati, particularly its West End, is a significant American cultural marker as Black Americans traversed US southern and northern geographical, political, and racial borders during the Great Migration. Cincinnati Sounds documents our community-based week-long exploration of American musics, sounds, geographies, and landmarks––some carefully preserved and curated, others remaining only in public memory. It weaves together workshop highlights and autoethnographic reflections of a newly-formed community including interdisciplinary scholars from across the US and internationally in anthropology, English, ethnomusicology, folklore, geography, musicology, performance,…