A Keynote by Mykaell Riley at HKW
Mykaell Riley is a Senior Lecturer, Director for The Black Music Research Unit (BMRU) and Principal Investigator for Bass Culture Research at the University of Westminster. He has also worked as the external examiner for Open University, City University, South Themes College, Leeds College of Music, Tech-Music -UK/Dublin and the University of West London and the University of Hull.
Abstract With a large number of African archives located mostly in the basements of Western museums and the current US administration focused on rewriting history, Mykaell Riley asks: Who owns our story? Can we depend on the advancement of AI to promote the cultural contribution of Black music? As the so-called AI revolution approaches, so too does the need to reclaim cultural memory from this twenty-first century colonizing force.Mykaell Riley recently curated Beyond the Bassline, 500 Years of Black British Music at the British Library/ National Sound Archive, the first national exhibition in the UK on the long history of Black British music. His experience during the research for the show confirmed that history is curated by the victors.
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