BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:484@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T173000 DTSTAMP:20241106T215933Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/karmiole-2024/ SUMMARY:Funding London’s Elite Music Scene Through the Profits of Slavery in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond: Bio-Bibliographical Work as Reparat ive History DESCRIPTION:\nNineteenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Boo k Trade\n\nLecture by David Hunter\, Librarian Emeritus\, University of Te xas at Austin\n\nUntil eleven years ago\, when David Hunter found Handel ’s signature on several share transfer slips in the records of the Royal African Company at The National Archives\, Kew\, London\, no one had thou ght to investigate the ways in which the profits of the slave trade and th e plantation economy made their way into the musical world in London and e lsewhere in Britain and its Caribbean and North American colonies. Those w ays included subscription to opera and concert seasons\, to music publicat ions\, the purchase of musical instruments\, the hiring of teachers\, priv ate music-making sessions\, and even the trafficking of a minor\, Muzio Cl ementi. The bio-bibliographical research method\, using printed lists of s ubscribers\, such as those at the Clark Library for the Concerts of Antien t Music\, involves checking names against databases\, notably “Legacies of British Slavery\,” as well as in numerous collective and individual f amily histories. Its success in identifying families whose income derived largely from plantation ownership is unrivaled. It has also turned up a di stinctive bibliographical genre\, hand-held fans printed with a plan of th e boxes at the King’s Theatre and the occupants’ names. As reparative history\, the effort is both necessary and rewarding.\n\nDavid Hunter was Music Librarian\, and Senior Lecturer\, at the University of Texas at Aust in from 1988 to 2017. He is now Librarian Emeritus. After an intensive mus ical education as a chorister at Chichester Cathedral\, he went on to sing with numerous collegiate and city choirs in Wales\, England\, Champaign\, IL\, and Austin\, TX. He earned his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author or editor of several books including Th e Lives of George Frideric Handel (2015)\, in which he revealed that Hande l had investments in the slave-trading Royal African Company. His articles have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals\, most recently in th e Galpin Society Journal (2021 and 2025) Music in Art (2024) and the Cambr idge Opera Journal (2025). He has given invited lectures at universities a cross the United Kingdom  and the United States. He has been a consultant with the Royal Opera House\, Covent Garden on slavery. Hunter is writing a book on the use of the profits of slavery to fund musical activity in Br itain and its colonies ca.1660–ca.1850.\n\nThe lecture will be presented live by Dr. David Hunter remotely\, to in-person attendees at the Clark a nd online via livestream\, with Q&\;A and discussion with the audience to follow. A display of related materials from UCLA collections will be on view at the Clark before the lecture\, please see here for the list of ma terials. A light reception for all attendees will follow the program.\n\n\ n\nThe lecture is free to attend with advance registration. It will be hel d in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTub e Channel. No registration is required to watch the livestream. In-person registration will close on Tuesday\, November 12. Seating is limited at th e Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoadi ng…\n\n\n\nImage: Lee\, William. 1794. The Plan of the Boxes at the King ’s Theatre\, Hay-Market with an Alphabetical List of the Subscribers ..  : 1794. England. Courtesy of the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Li brary. CATEGORIES:Lectures LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252 0 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UCLA Willi am Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR