Call People magazine, Rolling Stone. Call your next of kin, ’cause your ass is gone”
~Prince from “Positivity”
Even though she was credited incorrectly, being quoted in a special edition Prince magazine is literally a dream come true for De Angela. She is …
#W2AVC Thank You and Recap!
This was NOT a symposium. This was a virtual celebration for the release of Prince’s Welcome 2 America, the first complete, unreleased album from Prince’s vault on Saturday, August 21, 2021.
This event was in the spirit of last year’s …
The Time 1981 press photo (Art: Ron Hart)
In this article, “Another Starr Production: The Time at 40,” for Rock and Roll Globe, I am grateful for the opportunity to further reflect beyond the hilarious #1plusplus1is3 symposium roundtable about 40 years of The Time’s debut …
Sampling Jill Jones #PrinceTwitterThread
The #PrinceTwitterThread is a curated series by Edgar Kruize and Deejay UMB. Jill Jones was their 5th #PrinceTwitterThread. De Angela was honored and grateful to be able to discuss sampling Jill Jones: https://twitter.com/polishedsolid/status/1418650050801061895.
IF you want to read this Twitter …
On June 7, 2021, I moderated a one-hour, virtual, IASPM-US Research Seminar, “Say It Loud: Black Voices in U.S. Popular Music Studies.” The seminar featured presentations by Drs. Brittnay L. Proctor, Matthew D. Morrison, Elliott H. Powell, Kimberly R. Mack, …
On 3 June 2021, De Angela presented, “Conjuring The Prince Mystique” at the virtual 3-day Prince 78-88: The First Decade, a 2-day Interdisciplinary Conference, 3-5 June 2021, organized by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough, Dr. Mike Alleyne, and Kristen Zschomler. She also …
C. Liegh McInnis, Kamilah Cummings & De Angela presented a panel, Prince: Disrupting Notions of Blackness, at Pop Convergence 2021 on Friday, 23 April 2021. Our panel was moderated by Michaelangelo Matos.Pop Conference 2021— the longest-running music writing and pop …
Prince Five Years Later by Jon Bream for Minneapolis’ Star Tribune
I was beyond thrilled to be featured in this article, “Prince: Five Years Later,” written by the one and only Jon Bream in Minneapolis’ Star Tribune on 18 April 2021. …
De Angela was honored to be featured in the article, “Five Years Later: Members of The Prince Community Reflect,” by Miles Marshall Lewis on soulhead.com!Troy Gua (pop conceptualist, creator of Le Petit Prince art project), KaNisa Williams aka Darling Nisi (creator-host of …
On 18 April 2021, De Angela was interviewed by Karen Gabay for The People on BBC Manchester Radio about Prince, five years later.
On 12 April 2021, De Angela appeared in a short segment on The Takeaway to discuss Prince’s Welcome 2 America new album release. Massive thanks to WNYC for the invitation!
You can listen here: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/how-previously-unreleased-album-could-impact-princes-legacy
#1plus1plus1is3 was a polished solid production, curated & organized by De Angela L. Duff. #1plus1plus1is3 was a 3-day virtual symposium, celebrating Prince for 40 years of Controversy, 30 years of Diamonds & Pearls, and 20 years of The Rainbow Children, on 26-28 March 2021 …
De Angela is incredibly proud to be a contributor to the wonderful book, Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design by Golan Levin & Tega Brain, published by MIT Press (2021). She is featured in “Part Three: …
#LTT2021 Creative Coding Session
Learning To Teach Creative Technologies Remotely: A Virtual UnSymposium on 22-23 Jan 2021 was spearheaded by De Angela with a few of her Integrated Digital Media (IDM) colleagues, Tega Brain, Luke DuBois, Reginé Gilbert, and Kathleen McDermott, as well as IDM …
De Angela contributes to the #PrinceTwitterThread curated by Edgar Kruize and Deejay UMB for Prince’s 1988 Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe album.
Her contribution was for the songs, “And That Says What? & It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat …
Peach and Black 2 A Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Celebration
Peach + Black 2 (#SOTTSDC) was not a symposium. #SOTTSDC was a virtual Sign O’ The Times (SOTT) Super Deluxe Celebration on Saturday, 10 October 2020, for the September …
#PrinceTwitterThread
De Angela contributes to the #PrinceTwitterThread curated by Edgar Kruize and Deejay UMB for Prince’s 1988 Sign O’ The Times album.
Her contribution was for the song, “It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night.” https://twitter.com/polishedsolid/status/1276470786858123264
To see the entire series of Come …
Purple Paisley Brunch Brothas of the Park Sep 19, 2020
The Purple Paisley Brunch Presents The Brothas of the ParkThe Purple Paisley Brunch (PPB) is an annual event created by Tonya Giddens, Founder of Bklyngurl Productions, an event planning company that specializes in …
Graffiti Bridge is 30 (Art: Ron Hart)
In this article for Rock and Roll Globe, De Angela was grateful for the opportunity to further reflect beyond the #DM40GB30 symposium about 30 years of Graffiti Bridge!#DM40GB30 shoutouts to Anil Dash, Monique W. Morris, Arthur Turnbull, …
De Angela is super excited to moderate part two of The Purple Paisley Brunch 2020: The Ladies of The Park with Sueann Carwell, Jill Jones, and Ashley Tamar Davis! Part one was so much fun! De Angela is grateful for …
