Power of Diversity Lecture: The 'Blurred Lines' of Marvin Gaye's 'Here, My Dear': Music as a Communication Tort, Divorce Narrative and the Performance of Masculinity w/ Bryan Adamson

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom C

Power of Diversity: Bryan Adamson
The 'Blurred Lines' of Marvin Gaye's 'Here, My Dear': Music as a Communication Tort, Divorce Narrative and the Performance of Masculinity

Professor Adamson is the David L. & Ann Brennan Professor of Law, and Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion. His areas of expertise are mass media and First Amendment law, and he has practiced extensively in re-entry advocacy, housing, mortgage lending and consumer protection.

In his lecture, Adamson will focus on Marvin Gaye's 1978 album Here, My Dear and its surrounding relational and legal layers—including Gaye's ex-wife's public threat to sue him. Adamson's talk explores the legal dimensions of that threat, and whether Here, My Dear conforms to or confounds frameworks which inform the performance of masculinity.

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