Coming soon from HRN, Culture & Flavor is a podcast about food and culture centered in Black & Indigenous foodways. Hosted by Zella Palmer, Director and Chair of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African American Material Culture in New Orleans, Louisiana. Each episode features high vibrational conversations with cultural bearers, chefs, farmers, scholars, bbq pitmasters and more - where there is flavor, there is history - Join Zella Palmer and her guests as they share stories that will have you praise dancing, cooking, conjuring and inspiring your culinary journey.
On this episode of Culture & Flavor, Zella talks with Givonna Joseph, Founder and Director of Opera Creole. Ms. Joseph is committed to the culture of New Orleans, the city of her birth. This is most evident in her research on 19th-century classical music of New Orleans's Free People of Color.
As Founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning OperaCréole, Ms. Joseph’s research has recently been featured on CBS Saturday Morning, NBC Nightly News, and NPR, in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and in magazines such as The New Yorker, 64 Parishes, and Atlas Obscura.
She has received awards such as "Who's Who in America "2024, "Leadership in The Arts" from Washington, D.C.-based Opera Lafayette, and was an Honorary Culture Bearer in The Krewe of Muses parade.
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