LMU students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend a presentation and conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, the 2020 LMU Common Book. This event will be hosted in Zoom. Abdurraqib will be in conversation with Evelyn McDonnell, professor of journalism and New Media, and with artist and scholar DJ Lynnée Denise.

Please note: This event is only open to LMU students, faculty, and staff. Register here.

Learn more about Hanif Abdurraqib and the LMU Common Book at https://academics.lmu.edu/commonbook/

About Our Two Additional Panelists:

Evelyn McDonnell is a Professor in the English Department and Director of the Journalism Program at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of four books: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways, Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Army of She: Icelandic, Iconoclastic, Irrepressible Bjork and Rent by Jonathan Larson. She also edited Women Who Rock and Rock She Wrote, as well as the Music Matters series at University of Texas Press. She has been the editorial director of MOLI.com, pop culture writer at The Miami Herald, senior editor at The Village Voice, and associate editor at SF Weekly. Her writing on music, poetry, theater, and culture has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including  the Los Angeles Times, Ms., Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Spin, Travel & Leisure, Us, Billboard, Vibe, Interview, Black Book, and Option.

DJ Lynnée Denise is an artist, scholar and writer whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape and electronic music of the African Diaspora. Through interactive workshops, lectures and presentations, Lynnée Denise harnesses music as a medium for vital public dialogue on how to transform the way that music of the Black Atlantic is understood in its social context and beyond entertainment. Lynnée Denise’s DJ Scholarship has been featured at institutions such as the Broad Museum, the Tate Modern, Savvy Contemporary Gallery Berlin, Goldsmiths University of London, Iziko South African Museum, Stanford, Yale, NYU and Princeton University. Her writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Black Scholar Journal, The Journal of Popular Music Studies and as part of anthologies including Women Who Rock and Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity.  Lynnée Denise was the 2020 Visiting Artist at Stanford University’s Institute of Diversity in the Arts and is a lecturer for the Department of African American Studies at UCLA.