All Your Favorite Music is (Probably) Black is topic on March 13

On Wednesday, March 13, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, come to the Menlo Park Library (800 Alma St.) for a humorous, highly immersive and historically-accurate talk uncovering the African American roots of popular music genres that appear to be free of African-Americans.

Utilizing a rich audiovisual presentation, music historian Mark Montgomery French reveals the sonic secrets behind African Americans’ cultural invisibility within the musical categories they helped define.

Featuring: Lil Nas X, Talking Heads, BTS, Tina Bell, and more!

San Francisco native Mark Montgomery French is an award-winning film composer with the group Spiky Blimp, an award-winning Creative Director and Co-Producer of Glide Memorial Church’s Sunday Celebration, host of the YouTube music review show “Still Got It” and the podcast “All Your Favorite Music is (Probably)…”, staff writer at PopMatters, and the manager of critically acclaimed queer country band Secret Emchy Society and classic power-punk band The Furys.

This free event received funding support from the Friends of the Menlo Park Library.