Joe Boyd

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Wittliff Collections

Joe Boyd’s career stands at the center of so many music histories: European tour manager for Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe; stage manager at Newport Folk when Dylan went electric; founder of the psychedelic UFO Club at the height of Swinging London; first producer for Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, and so many more; music supervisor for Clockwork Orange and Deliverance; and on and on, as documented in his memoir White Bicycles. 

Please join the Center for Texas Music History on October 8th, 2024 as we welcome Joe Boyd to the TXST campus to discuss his newest book, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, and another aspects of this multifaceted career. And the Roots of Rhythm Remain explores the long histories that informed the elaboration of the “world music” genre in the late twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Boyd shows how the musical history in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston, and Rio are as momentous as the more familiar U.S. or English stories of musical New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon, or Liverpool.