Professor David Peimer
Songs about Migration: Beautiful, Sad, Thrilling Music and Tales of Journeys
Summary
We will delve into some of the great songs about migration by a wide range of singers, from traditional Jewish songs to Robert Johnson and Woody Guthris, to Gershwin, Barbra Streisand, and Neil Diamond, and Ella Fitzgerald, Springsteen, and Tom Petty, and many more. These are beautiful, sad, thrilling songs about the migration experience–the story of humans on a ceaseless wave to an imagined shore.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.