Podcast appearances and mentions of Christopher C King

Christopher C. King is a Grammy-winning producer, musicologist as well as a prominent 78 rpm collector. He has been profiled in the New York Times Magazine and the Washington Post, and has written for the Paris Review, the Oxford American and Airmail News. Christopher was born and raised in southwest Virginia and studied philosophy at Radford University. Over the course of the last ten years, he has researched the tradition of Greek demotika songs, especially in Epirus. In 2018, W.W. Norton published his book, Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Oldest Surviving Folk Music, to wide critical acclaim. His book was named one of the top ten books of 2018 by the Wall Street Journal and Christopher has presented his work at the New York Public Library, the Gennadius Library of Athens as well as the Athens Conservatoire, among other venues. He currently splits his time between the United States and Greece. Lament From Epirus is available for purchase on https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393248992/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_W70BMMXJXRBG36CBM295 (Amazon.com) Sound Resources: https://soundcloud.com/long-gone-sound (https://soundcloud.com/long-gone-sound) https://www.amazon.com/Lament-Style-1929-1931-Kitsos-Harisiadis/dp/B07CXBXRB2/ref=pd_sbs_1?pd_rd_w=r5806&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=B3AESBYYWFX8E1T6FJG4&pd_rd_r=e828016d-282a-4fd5-8181-2aa73916ab0f&pd_rd_wg=mmzyu&pd_rd_i=B07CXBXRB2&psc=1 (https://www.amazon.com/Lament-Style-1929-1931-Kitsos-Harisiadis/dp/B07CXBXRB2/ref=pd_sbs_1?pd_rd_w=r5806&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=B3AESBYYWFX8E1T6FJG4&pd_rd_r=e828016d-282a-4fd5-8181-2aa73916ab0f&pd_rd_wg=mmzyu&pd_rd_i=B07CXBXRB2&psc=1) https://www.amazon.com/Why-Mountains-Are-Black-1907-1960/dp/B019K8AMZK/ref=pd_sbs_2?pd_rd_w=r5806&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=B3AESBYYWFX8E1T6FJG4&pd_rd_r=e828016d-282a-4fd5-8181-2aa73916ab0f&pd_rd_wg=mmzyu&pd_rd_i=B019K8AMZK&psc=1 (https://www.amazon.com/Why-Mountains-Are-Black-1907-1960/dp/B019K8AMZK/ref=pd_sbs_2?pd_rd_w=r5806&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=B3AESBYYWFX8E1T6FJG4&pd_rd_r=e828016d-282a-4fd5-8181-2aa73916ab0f&pd_rd_wg=mmzyu&pd_rd_i=B019K8AMZK&psc=1) https://www.amazon.com/Lament-Epirus-1926-1928-Alexis-Zoumbas/dp/B07XGSF26Y/ref=pd_sbs_3?pd_rd_w=r5806&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=B3AESBYYWFX8E1T6FJG4&pd_rd_r=e828016d-282a-4fd5-8181-2aa73916ab0f&pd_rd_wg=mmzyu&pd_rd_i=B07XGSF26Y&psc=1 (https://www.amazon.com/Lament-Epirus-1926-1928-Alexis-Zoumbas/dp/B07XGSF26Y/ref=pd_sbs_3?pd_rd_w=r5806&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=B3AESBYYWFX8E1T6FJG4&pd_rd_r=e828016d-282a-4fd5-8181-2aa73916ab0f&pd_rd_wg=mmzyu&pd_rd_i=B07XGSF26Y&psc=1)

Christopher C. King speaks at schools to youth and leads diverse communities with professionals on innovation, equity, and entrepreneurship. King is an activist, entrepreneur, and educator. This year, he was named an Adjunct Professor at Howard University's School of Business in the Information Systems Department. He is also the founder and CEO of We Are Marcus, an education technology company that develops mentoring experiences for youth of color with data-driven tools. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fromno2go/support

Christopher C. King, MPA, MBA is an activist entrepreneur, educator, and consultant recognized by Black Enterprise, Village Capital, the DC Mayor's Office of Greater Economic Opportunity, the National Institute of Health, and the Howard University Trustees for impact and innovation achievements. Learn more about Christopher at www.king-talks.com Learn more about Disrupt Education #disrupteducation --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/disrupt-educ/support

While you live, shine. Have no mourning at all. Life exists a short while And time demands its fee. – From a 2000 year old tombstone in (then) Greek-speaking Asia Minor I’d like to do a little free-association exercise with you. I’m going to say three words and I’d like you to speak or write down all the words that come to mind as a result. No filtering. No judgment. Ready? American Pop Culture. Go!  . . . Ok. Here’s what I got: Kanye Trump Gun Meme YouTube That’s pretty sad, I suppose. And maybe it anecdotally, non-scientifically supports a claim made by my guest today that culture and music, once mutually dependent, have become totally unmoored and lost in the age of globalism. And that the sounds we make and market today just don’t have anything like the healing power that was music’s purpose for thousands of years. Christopher C. King is a writer, Grammy—winning music producer, and something of an ethnomusicologist. His obsessive collecting of rare ‘78s led him to discover the music of Epirus, a region of northwestern Greece. To his ears, the playing of Kitsos Harisiadis, Alexis Zoumbas, and other Epirote masters virtually unknown outside of Epirus had an elemental power transcending even that of Delta Blues legends like Robert Johnson and Skip James. In Epirus, King  found something he thought had been lost in the world: a musical culture with unbroken roots stretching back into prehistory. And some clues, perhaps, as to why we make music in the first place.  Christopher’s new book is Lament From Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Oldest surviving Folk Music. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: David Kennedy on the biggest problem historians face Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices