Dr. Renee Wilson is Mississippi College’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Dr. Wilson’s lecture, Elevated: The Influence of Vernacular Music on American Art Music, will be presented 2/18/25 at 6:00 pm on the college’s campus in Jean Pittman Recital Hall, Aven Hall Rm 202. The presentation explores vernacular music as music of the people. Lovingly passed along within and among culture groups, it both preserves and shares the culture(s) among us. It includes folk music and, in the United States, it includes styles such as jazz and blues. This presentation calls attention to masterworks for band, choir, and orchestra which have been clearly influenced by folk music, jazz, and blues.
Dr. Wilson will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The event pays tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of the state’s institutions of higher learning.
