Black Mountain College Archive

Resistance at Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry’s Black Mountain Songs

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There’s a similar simplicity to Black Mountain Songs. “The spirit of learning through doing and emphasis on self-exploration for both teachers and students,” was one of the qualities of Black Mountain College Dessner hoped to convey with the performance.

The Roving Poets of Black Mountain College

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Black Mountain College sprung up in the 1930s, near Asheville, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a short-lived school born in a time of crisis.