Ashon Crawley, "Made Instrument: Cancer"

Ashon Crawley, Religious Studies and African American and African Studies, University of Virginia

"Made Instrument: Cancer" 

Ashon Crawley will be reading from his in-progress work, Made Instrument, about the AIDS crisis and the sound of the Black Church. Exploring the interrelation between landscape architecture, black sonic practices and black life, the chapter "Cancer," argues that we must reconnect our lives to severed earth.