{"id":29759,"date":"2014-02-03T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2014\/02\/04\/necc-professor-to-present-on-african-american-music-at-two-local-libraries\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:27:32","slug":"necc-professor-to-present-on-african-american-music-at-two-local-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/02\/03\/necc-professor-to-present-on-african-american-music-at-two-local-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Professor to Present on African American Music at Two Local Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As part of Black History Month, Kevin Comtois, who teaches in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/resources\/departments\/department-of-global-studies\/\">Global Studies Department<\/a> at Northern Essex, will share his passion for American Music in a presentation titled \u201cFrom Slave Spirituals to Hip Hop: The Social and Political History of American Music\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7886\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2014\/02\/033_DSC_7452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7886\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7886 \" alt=\"NECC's Kevin Comtois will give a presentation on American Music\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2014\/02\/033_DSC_7452-248x300.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NECC&#8217;s Kevin Comtois will give a presentation on American Music.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Comtois will present at the Beverly Public Library, 32 Essex St., on Monday, Feb. 10 at 10:30 a.m. and at the Wilmington Memorial Library, 175 Middlesex Ave., on Wednesday, Feb. 26 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Both presentations are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Using recorded music, film clips, and still images, Comtois will trace the evolution and social and political context of American popular music through four centuries ranging from slave spirituals, minstrelsy, blues, jazz, and Rock and Roll.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Comtois has been teaching History at NECC since 1999. 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