Opera Company of Middlebury presents:

Music and Social Power:
How Has Music Shaped American Culture? How Does American Culture Shape Music?

By Dr. William Nash

On the historic Rothrock Main Stage

Sunday, September 27 at 2pm

Join Middlebury College Professor William Nash for an engaging exploration of the dynamic relationship between music and social power in American life. A Professor of American Studies and English at Middlebury since 1995, Dr. Nash's scholarship examines Black literature, enslavement and abolitionism, and contemporary Black culture, offering a rich perspective on how music has reflected, challenged, and transformed American society. Drawing on his expertise in the cultural history of race and resistance, Dr. Nash's lecture considers the ways music both shapes and is shaped by the social, political, and historical forces that define the American experience, contextualizing the culminating festival production, Rappahannock County, within the festival theme.