doi:10.7916/d8-gfwa-7211Musicians on the Music Part 1video recordingsmoving imageAfrican American musiciansAfrican American women musiciansJazzBlues (Music)United StatesBaraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. Blues peopleDay two afternoon panel: Musicians on music, with panelists Hilda Harris, voice teacher at Sarah Lawrence College, speaking on Victoria Spivey, Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter ; LaShonda Barnett, Professor of Black Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College, speaking on Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln, and Cassandra Wilson ; W. S. Tkweme, University of Massachusetts, speaking on African American musicians and their takes on music ; and John Szwed, Columbia University, giving a "prose praise poem" for Baraka's Blues people