LECTURE: Music and Social Power with Dr. William Nash

2:00pm
FREE/Donations welcome, registration required

Join Middlebury College Professor William Nash for a multimedia exploration of music and social power in American life. Through recordings, videos, and historical images, Nash examines how diverse musical traditions - from campaign songs and miners' songs to protest music - have reflected, challenged, and shaped the nation's political and cultural history. Drawing on his interdisciplinary expertise in American Studies and English, Nash reveals how music has long served as both a mirror of society and a force for change. This engaging lecture provides historical and cultural context for the festival's culminating production, Rappahannock County.