Michael E. Veal
Michael E. Veal is an ethnomusicologist at Yale University focusing on aesthetics, technology and politics in Africa and the African diaspora. He is the author of Fela: The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon (2000), Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (2007) and the forthcoming Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital. Veal plays electric bass and soprano saxophone and is the leader of the band Michael Veal & Aqua Ife.
As of February 2022
Events
On Music
Living Space
Free Jazz Through the Prisms of Architecture and Photography
Reading, concert
Apr 7, 2022
Find the File
Informal Archiving: Crate-Diggers, Selectors, Reissues
With Mark Gergis, Temitope Kogbe, Brian Shimkovitz, Elodie A. Roy, Michael E. Veal, moderated by Florian Sievers
Discussion
Mar 24, 2019
Find the File
Keeping Track(s): Saving Sonic Heritage
With Ahmed Adan, Brigid Cohen, Lucy Ilado, Michael E. Veal, moderated by Florian Sievers
Talks
Mar 23, 2019