AMP: American Music Perspectives
Super excited to be in this AMP: American Music Perspectives special issue on Prince, Vol. 2 No. 1, Pennsylvania State University Press, alongside Natalie Clifford, Sam Coley, Kamilah Cummings, Darryle Merlette, and Twila L. Perry, with an …
DMSR Controversy Podcast
I had a blast talking for (four) hours about my favorite Prince album, Controversy, on the Dance / Music / Sex / Romance podcast with my brother in Lovesexy Harold Pride and host, Zachary Hoskins.
It is my very first time being on somebody else’s …
It was so so great to finally meet and share a meal with Jon Bream, music journalist and the author of my very first Prince book, Prince: Inside The Purple Reign (1984), at this year’s 2022 Prince Celebration at Paisley …
Journal of Popular Music Studies
Massive gratitude to the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, p. 5–27, for highlighting last year’s Prince #1plus1plus1is3 Virtual Symposium in their field notes section of their June 2022 edition, released just in …
GreyArea1001 The T&A SHOW: LIVE! Celebrating Prince Flyer
@TonyaPendleton invited me to speak about Prince and more specifically my Prince symposia on Clubhouse on a very significant date, April 21 (the date of Prince’s passing). It was my first time speaking …
#SexyMF30 was a polished solid production, created and curated by De Angela L. Duff.
This 2-day virtual symposium celebrated Prince for 30 years of the Love Symbol album, on 26-27 March 2022 (Sat-Sun)!
There were 33 speakers (academics, music journalists, podcasters, authors, and independent scholars), …
Black Portraiture[s] VII Flyer
De Angela presented at the Black Portraitures[VII] conference: Play and Performance on Feb 18, 2022, at Express Newark at Rutgers University-Newark in Newark, NJ, on the What Else Can There Be? Black Play / Cultural (Dis)Locations panel.
“Under The Cherry Moon: Prince …
Betty Davis photographed in New York in 1969 by Anthony Barboza/GI
I compiled this Betty Davis Syllabus (#BettyDavisSyllabus) quickly to seize the moment to introduce Betty Davis to new fans and music lovers who want a deeper dive. I also compiled …
Journal of Popular Music Studies
I am thrilled to have the transcript of my virtual talk, “Conjuring the Prince Mystique” from the virtual 78-88: Prince, The First Decade: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 3 – 5 June 2021 (organized by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough, Dr. Mike Alleyne, …
On Saturday, 13 November 2021, De Angela is co-producing, alongside the PRN Alumni Foundation, a one-day virtual event to commemorate five years of the PRN Alumni Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit founded by former Prince staff who share the global icon’s philanthropic …
I was honored to present “Pour Some Water On Me: Prince and the Ohio Players” at the 2nd Annual Dayton Funk Symposium, at the University of Ohio in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, 6 November 2021. Even though my presentation was virtual, …
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 …
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