Scott McCullough

Scott McCullough's Prince Credits List

Scott McCullough


FEATURE FILM

  • Graffiti Bridge Casting Coordinator – Prince, director – Warner Bros. Pictures

MUSIC VIDEOS

  • Prince “Sexy MF” Segment Director-DP/’A’ Camera Operator – Warner Bros. RIAA GOLD
  • Prince “Gett Off… Violet The Organ Grinder” DP – Paisley Park/Warner Bros. RIAA GOLD
  • Prince “Gett Off… Houstyle” DP – Paisley Park/Warner Bros. RIAA GOLD
  • Prince “Clockin’ The Jizz” DP – Paisley Park/Warner Bros. RIAA GOLD
  • Prince “Live in London” DP/’A’ Camera Operator – MTV footage and BBC footage
  • Prince “Money Don’t Matter Tonight” ‘A’ Camera – Paisley Park, Spike Lee, director RIAA GOLD
  • Prince “Willing and Able” ‘A’ Camera – Paisley Park/Warner Bros. RIAA GOLD
  • Prince “The Continental” Camera Operator – Paisley Park Warner Bros. Gerry Wenner, DP
  • Prince “Strollin” Director/DP – Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
  • Prince “Call The Law” Director/DP/Editor – Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
  • Prince “Gett Off-Gangster Glam” Director/DP/Editor – Paisley Park/Warner Bros. RIAA GOLD
  • Prince “Daddy Pop” Director/DP – Paisley Park Warner Bros.
  • Carmen Electra “Early in the Morning” Director/DP – Produced by Prince/Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
  • Eric Leeds “Little Rock” Director/DP/Editor – Paisley Park/Warner Bros.
  • Prince “BBC Documentary” Segment Director/Cameraman – BBC Films
  • Prince “My Name Is Prince” Insert/segment Cameraman – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “Damn U” 2nd Unit Director/ ‘A’ Camera Operator-1st Unit – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Mavis Staples “The Voice” Camera Operator – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince Europe Tour Rehearsal films ‘91, ‘92, ‘93 Director/DP/Camera Operator – Warner Bros.
  • George Clinton “We Can Funk” Casting Director/Coordinator – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • The Time with Prince “We Can Funk” Casting Director – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got” Casting Coordinator – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince Live in London “Nothing Compares 2 U” ‘A’ Camera Operator – Warner Bros./Paisley
  • Tevin Campbell “Round and Round” Casting Coordinator – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • The Time “Release It” 2nd 2nd AD – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “Tick Tick Bang” Casting Coordinator – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “Thieves In The Temple” Casting – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • The Time “Love Machine” Casting Director – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • The Time “Shake” Casting Director – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Ingrid Chavez and Prince “Mystery of U” Casting Coordinator – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “The New Power Generation” Casting Coordinator – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “Elephants and Flowers” Casting Director – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “Live at Glam Slam-concert film” Director/DP – Warner Bros./Paisley Park
  • Prince “Diamonds and Pearls” concert rehearsal tour film Director/DP – Warner Bros.

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Zaheer Ali

Zaheer Ali

Zaheer Ali


Zaheer Ali is a historian and scholar of 20th century United States and African-American history. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at New York University, where he taught a Spring 2017 course titled, “Prince: Sign of the Times,” an examination of Prince’s life and legacy in American history and culture. He’s presented his scholarship on Prince at conferences at Yale, Salford University in Manchester, England, and the University of Minnesota.

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Melay Araya

Melay Araya

The Black Bacchic: Music Videos of the Diamonds and Pearls Era


Graffiti Bridge did entirely too much, but it laid out a couple of aesthetic paths for Prince and the New Power Generation (NPG). One is that of the visuals of the Diamonds and Pearls era. During this period, Prince presented tableaus of Black pleasure that countered earlier solo video performances of his own private or privatized desires, including the desire to be seen. From the bravado and peacocking of Prince’s play with the Game Boyz to his submersion in women-dominated spaces, Prince prioritized shared pleasure and collective glamour. As he moved away from video visions of privatized pleasure, Prince’s imagery also transformed from dreamy to corporal, with significant changes in staging, design, and performance. In this talk, I will also explore Rosie Gaines’s prominence in this period, her particular presence in these videos, and generally, the way that Black women figure into and out of Prince’s gaze. I will touch on the Love Symbol and 3 Chains o’ Gold as children of the other aesthetic path set out by Graffiti Bridge and the peculiar place The Beautiful Experience holds in his exploration of Black women’s interiority.

Melay Araya


Melay Araya is an artistic director, writer, and archivist. A multimedia artist with three decades of experience, Ms. Araya continues to study, compose, record, and perform. Melay first presented a paper on the Jet/ Ebony archives at Black Portraiture[s] V Conference at NYU and has since gone on to speak about art and archives at universities, festivals, and in classroom settings.


Krysta Battersby

Krysta Battersby

Krysta Battersby

#1plus1plus1is3 Community Manager


Krysta Battersby, an Administrative Director at NYU Tandon in the Technology, Culture, & Society Department, is a Higher Education and Student Affairs professional who is passionate about helping scholars grow while developing and cultivating their skills and talents. After receiving her Master’s in Higher Education and Student Affairs from NYU, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with faculty, administration, and students to enhance the student experience at NYU Tandon. Outside of academic affairs (advising, course scheduling, and study away initiatives), she assists with the student experience through a number of committees and organizing programs and activities for Tandon students.

With a particular interest in the high school to college transition, her work outside of NYU includes mentoring high school students and assisting the POSSE Foundation with their interview process to identify POSSE scholars. She most recently had the pleasure of starting a scholarship at her alma mater with the members of her Posse (Lafayette College- Posse 6).

Understanding the support that she received as a POSSE scholar motivates her work within higher education. She is dedicated to seeing scholars thrive in an academic setting.

She has been instrumental, behind the scenes, in all of De Angela’s symposia.


Cbabi Bayoc

Cbabi Bayoc

Cbabi Bayoc


Cbabi (pronounced Kuh-bob-bi) Bayoc is a visual artist and illustrator residing in St. Louis, Missouri. His work can be identified through unique, bold, and colorful artistry, while adding some “phunk”. Bayoc, whose given name is Clifford Miskell, Jr., adopted his name CBABI (Creative-Black-Artist-Battling-Ignorance) during his time at Grambling State University (‘92-‘95). BAYOC (Blessed-African-Youth-Of-Creativity) provided a unique and deep connection that could be one day shared with his children.

Following the name change, Bayoc was approached to exhibit artwork at an organization called Dignity House in St. Louis, which was a beneficiary for Prince’s Love 4 One Another (L4OA) charity tour. The volunteer team recorded the food donation event on July 27, 1997, and took the footage back to Prince. The rest, as they say, is history. Prince liked what he saw and collected Bayoc’s art for many years. On October 20, 2000, the day Bayoc’s first child was born, Prince’s management called to request samples of new work. Prince used one of the pieces he acquired during that round, “Reine Keis Quintet”, as the cover art for his 23rd studio album, The Rainbow Children, which was released in 2001. The artwork was also the centerpiece of Prince’s first Celebration event held at his Paisley Park complex in Chanhassen, Minnesota, June 13-17, 2001, celebrating The Rainbow Children album and the re-claiming of Prince’s name after the expiration of his Warner Brothers contract.

If you were to visit St. Louis, you will probably see Bayoc’s masterpieces on/in homes, hospitals, residential buildings, within small businesses and major corporations, throughout schools, in libraries, and other areas where appreciation of art can be acknowledged. A few things that Bayoc holds near and dear to his heart include enjoying family (embarrassing his teenage children) and supporting family-owned and small businesses. He also maintains his dedication to supporting his community and takes action to help shift the narrative for African American culture and establish the breakthrough for black artists. Bayoc continues and will always use his platform and talents to voice the need for equality, social justice and economic fairness, systemic changes, and development for African Americans. 

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Richard Cole

Richard Cole

Richard Cole


Richard Cole (artist, photographer, musician) is the host of Amari Purple Talk, a podcast dedicated to the music and artistry of Prince and a writer for the blog “What’s in the Crate?”, a review of vinyl albums. He was a freelance photographer from 1986-2009. While attending the formerly named Academy of Art College in San Francisco in the late 1980s, Richard met and worked with artists/musicians PC Munoz and Carolyn Fok. Richard is also the author of the poetry collection, Revolution of the Soul.

Amari Purple Talk
Amari Communications

Kamilah Cummings

A Tale of Two Princes: Diamonds & Pearls and the Myth of Colorblindness in the Work of Prince


In recent years, “he did not see color” has become a common refrain from some fans when attempts are made to center blackness in the narrative of Prince’s life and art. Given Prince’s rebuke of racial boundaries and the fact that he forged his iconic career during the post-Civil Rights era when America adopted colorblind ideology as an antidote to racism, it is understandable why some continue to perpetuate colorblindness when discussing his work. However, though Prince himself even espoused the colorblind ethos in his chart-topping single “Diamonds & Pearls,” the reality is that Prince was anything but colorblind. Rather, he was profoundly aware of color, race, and racism and their impact on his work. As culture critic Greg Tate has noted, Prince was a “pop music tactician and strategist.” This presentation will demonstrate the role that race played as part of the strategy that made Diamonds & Pearls one of Prince’s most successful albums.


Kamilah Cummings


Kamilah Cummings is a writer, editor, and visiting senior lecturer in writing and communications at DePaul University in Chicago. In addition to presenting at Purple Reign (University of Salford), the EYE NO Prince Lovesexy Symposium (NYU), the Batdance Symposium (Spelman), the virtual Prince #DM40GB0 Symposium, and the virtual #SOTTSDC: Peach + Black 2 – Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Celebration, she has developed the interdisciplinary course Prince: A New Breed Leader. Her essay “Sisters in the Shadows: an Examination of Prince’s “Strange Relationship” with Black Women” is featured in the Howard University Journal of Communications special issue Prince in/as Blackness: Explorations of a music icon and racial politics. She has also contributed to Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life. A lover of House music as well, she has presented on House music and taught her original course The House Chicago Built. Her research interests include exploring the intersections of media, pop culture, and history in representations and constructions of black identity.

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Christopher A. Daniel

Christopher A. Daniel

Reproduction of a New Breed, Leaders, Stand Up, Organize! - How Prince Used 'Controversy' to Address the News Cycle of 1980-1981 Through Song


This presentation will examine how His Royal Badness used his fourth studio LP, Controversy, specifically through tracks like “Ronnie, Talk to Russia” and “Annie Christian,” as his debut vehicle to deliver social commentary and critical analysis on hot topics.


Christopher A. Daniel


Christopher A. Daniel, M.A. is an Atlanta-based, award-winning journalist, cultural critic, ethnomusicologist, professional development coordinator, and multimedia journalism professor at Clark Atlanta University. An alumnus of Johnson C. Smith University and The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Mass Communication, Christopher’s work is featured on NBCBLK, Shondaland, The Root, Shadow & Act, Billboard, Atlanta Magazine, ESPN The Undefeated, Huffington Post, Albumism, soulhead.com, Rolling Out, Blues & Soul Magazine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, CBS News, Food & Wine, BET.com, and GRAMMY.com.

A Prince enthusiast, Christopher has conducted, moderated, and published interviews with many artists to emerge out of the His Purple Majesty’s camp as well as collaborators including André Cymone, all the original members of the Revolution, Sheila E., Morris Day, Monte Moir, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and Najee. He was a panelist curated by the African American Film Critics Association [AAFCA] at the Auburn Avenue Research Library that concentrated on Prince as a film icon. Christopher is also instrumental in the City of Atlanta honoring both Sheila E. and Morris Day with proclamations.


Anil Dash

Anil Dash

Anil Dash


Anil Dash is the CEO of Glitch, the friendly developer community that’s the easiest way to create web apps. He is recognized as one of the technology industry’s staunchest advocates for more humane, inclusive, and ethical technology through his work as an entrepreneur, activist, and writer.

Described by the New Yorker as a “blogging pioneer”, his Webby-recognized personal website has been cited in sources ranging from the New York Times to the BBC to TMZ, and in hundreds of academic papers. As a writer and artist, Dash has been a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Wired, had his works exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and collaborated with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on one of the most popular Spotify playlists of 2018. In 2013, Time named @anildash one of the best accounts on Twitter, and he is the only person ever retweeted by Bill Gates, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Prince, a succinct summarization of Dash’s interests. Dash has been a featured speaker and guest in a broad range of media ranging from the Aspen Ideas Festival to SXSW to Desus and Mero’s late-night show.

Dash is based in New York City, where he lives with his wife Alaina Browne and their son Malcolm. He has never played a round of golf, drank a cup of coffee, or graduated from college.

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Michael Dean

Michael Dean

Michael Dean


Michael Dean started his journey in the arts back in 1988 as an up and coming rapper in the Seattle hip-hop scene. The release of his independent single ‘The Master”, lead to a mention in the Source magazine. Michael lent his talents on keyboard and vocals touring the midwest with The Evil Tambourines (SubPop) opening for Sir Mix-O-Lot in 1999. From there Michael joined the business side of the music business and operated a CD/DVD replication business for 15 years.

In 1995 Michael started to blog about Prince on the internet. Michael along with a few others was invited to a private online chat with Prince to discuss involvement in creating a website for the musical icon. (Love4oneanother) Michael respectfully declined but was so honored to be considered that he was inspired to start a new website called ‘FreedomTrainOnline’ which would morph into The Prince Podcast. For over 15 years The Prince Podcast, now called Podcast On Prince has done in-depth interviews with band members and associates. Featured in the Huffington Press and Forbes. Michael recently moderated the event ‘Prince: From Minneapolis to the World’ for the Minnesota Historical Society.

Michael came back to his musical roots in 2010 and has since released 3 albums: Stroke The Mind B4 The Behind, Rainydayjams Vol.1, and Lake Minnetonka aka What I Learned From Prince.

Michael also added author to his list of talents. His 1st science fiction novel Truths Destiny (The Destiny Saga) (Volume 1) was released in 2014.

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Dr. Fink

Dr. Fink


Matt Fink, better known as “Dr. Fink,” helped define the history of popular music by playing keyboards in Prince’s legendary band The Revolution. Appearing on stage dressed in surgical scrubs and mask, he is one of the most iconic keyboard players ever, having studio session credits on the Prince albums Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, Parade, Sign O’ The Times, Lovesexy, The Black Album, and Graffiti Bridge and co-writing credits on the songs “Dirty Mind,” “Computer Blue,” “17 Days”, “America,” and “It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night.” Most recently as an executive music producer, he has gathered some of the finest musicians/composers for the Rhythm Rumble video game created by Pixelakes. As an in-demand session player, producer/engineer, and songwriter, Dr. Fink has worked with many artists, producers, and songwriters, including The Time, Lipps Inc., The Jets, Vanity 6, The Rembrandts, 7 Aurelius (Ashanti), Shock G. (The Humpty Dance), House Techno EDM artist Kris Vanderheyden (Belgium), and Producers David Z., Bobby Z., P. Diddy, and Marc Mozart (Berlin). Dr. Fink has won 3 Grammys, 3 American Music Awards, and numerous gold and platinum awards for his work with Prince & The Revolution and Warner Brothers Japan-based artist Toshinobu Kubota. Dr. Fink joined Prince’s band in 1978 and worked with him until 1991. His tenure with Prince includes his work with The Revolution, The NPG, Madhouse, the 1984 movie Purple Rain in which he appeared, and its accompanying soundtrack, which has sold over 25 million copies worldwide. After his tenure with Prince, he became a staff producer/engineer for Minneapolis based record label K-Tel/Dominion Entertainment from 1991-1996, where he produced and recorded fifteen specialty album projects. In 2001 he released the Dr. Fink solo album “Ultrasound.” Other credits include composer on video game soundtracks for Headgames/Activision and King Show Games, PBS documentaries, advertising spots, and various projects for Berlin-based management and production company, Mozart & Friends, as well as Universal Music Group, Warner Bros., and Sony. After Prince’s passing in 2016, Dr. Fink reunited with The Revolution for live performances. Currently, he works with New York-based company V-Media Entertainment as Director of Music Catalogue and Licensing.


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De Angela L. Duff

De Angela L. Duff

Symposium Creator, Curator, and Co-Producer

De Angela L. Duff is currently an Associate Vice Provost at New York University (NYU) and an Industry Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Teaching in higher education since 1999, she is very passionate about educating students at the intersection of design, art, and technology. She was acknowledged for this passion by being awarded the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award. Over the last 15 years (and counting), one of her other passions is creating, developing, and evaluating higher education curriculum in the emerging media and technology space, first at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and subsequently at Spelman College and New York University. She has also been in higher education administration since 2009.

De Angela’s mission is to share her passion for music, photography, design, technology, creativity & productivity with others. She curates music and academic symposia, including the upcoming, virtual #1plus1plus1is3 (2021) for 40 yrs of Controversy, 30 yrs of Diamonds & Pearls, and 20 yrs of The Rainbow Children Prince albums and the most recent Learning To Teach Creative Technologies Remotely UnSymposium (2021). Her past symposia include the virtual Prince #DM40GB30 (2020), Prince BATDANCE (2019) at Spelman College, and Prince EYE NO: Lovesexy (2018) & Betty Davis–They Say I’m Different (2018) both at NYU Tandon. She also produced #SOTTSDC: Peach + Black 2: Sign ‘O’ The Times Super Deluxe Celebration (2020) and co-produced Peach + Black for the 30th anniversary of Prince’s Sign ‘O’ The Times (2017), also at NYU Tandon. She also produces, co-hosts, and edits the Prince & Prince-related podcasts for Grown Folks Music. Since 2011, she has been conducting Time Warrior workshops on time management, project management, and productivity. From 2004 -2017, she also hosted No Turn Unstoned, an online, radio show of curated mixes.

Her words have been published in Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life (2020, Bloomsbury) & the Black Magnolias Literary Journal’s Special Issue on Prince (2020). Her creative work has been featured in publications such as HOWPrint magazines, and the books, Now Loadingwww.animation: Animation Design for the World Wide Web. She is, also, one of the featured, educator interviews in the book, Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design (2021, MIT Press)

She has spoken on WNYC, BBC Manchester, and Minnesota Public Radio, and has judged Eyebeam’s Trust Residency, Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund, and HOW’s Interactive Design Competition.

De Angela also speaks at numerous conferences internationally. Next, she will be speaking at the and the Prince 78-88: An Interdisciplinary Conference at The University of Minnesota in June 2021 and the Dayton Funk Symposium in November 2021. She has spoken at Black Portraiture[s] V (NYU), IV (Harvard), III (South Africa), II (Florence, Italy) & II: Revisited (NYU), the Prince from MPLS symposium at the University of Minnesota, Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince at the University of Salford in Manchester, England, EYEO in Minneapolis, MN, NYC’s Creative Tech Week & Raising The Bar, AIGA’s Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World at MiCA in Baltimore, Maryland, AIGA’s Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media in Boston, MA, and HOW’s Annual Design Conference.

De Angela holds an MFA in Studio Art (Photography) from Maryland Institute College of Art (MiCA), a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University, and a BS in Textile Engineering from Georgia Tech. Presently, she lives, works, and plays in Brooklyn and New York City.


Other Symposia & Events Organized by De Angela


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Steven G Fullwood

Steven G Fullwood

Was Sexuality All He Ever Needed? Exploring Context and Currency in Prince’s Controversy


Prince reportedly told his one-time guitarist, Dez Dickerson, that he and his other bandmates needed to choose a stage persona. And that Prince himself would portray pure sex. It was a risky move for the musician/singer/songwriter. Consider this. The Sexual Revolution was over. The 1980s heralded the arrival of Reaganomics and the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis. It is useful to situate the sexual politics of Controversy (1981) in this moment and consider its enduring appeal for several reasons. His sonic and visual elements—funk, glam, punk, pop, R&B, and sexual persona—extended the conceits of Dirty Mind and delivered an inventive, experimental album that set the stage for future pop explorations uniquely his own.


Steven G Fullwood


Steven G Fullwood is a documentarian, archivist and writer. He is the co-founder of the Nomadic Archivists Project, an initiative that partners with organizations, institutions, and individuals to establish, preserve, and enhance collections that explore the African Diasporic experience. His published works include Black Gay Genius (2014), To Be Left with the Body (2008), and Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books (2007). He is the former assistant curator of the Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 1998, he founded the In the Life Archive (ITLA) to aid in the preservation of materials produced by LGBTQ people of African descent housed at the Schomburg Center.

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Zach Hoskins

Zachary Hoskins

I Wish We All Were Nude: Prince’s Controversy “Shower Poster” as Aesthetic Linchpin and Artifact


The U.S. LP release of 1981’s Controversy came with a fold-out color poster of a remarkable image. In the photo, Prince poses seductively in the shower, wearing only his black bikini briefs, a gold hip chain, and an insouciant stare. A vulgar stream of water trickles from the bulge of his crotch; a crucifix is mounted beside the showerhead. This poster–the scourge of thousands of early-’80s parents, and likely more than a few domestic partners–is a crucial, but overlooked part of Controversy’s visual presentation: dramatizing in a single image the various racial, sexual, and religious ambiguities laid out in the title track. My presentation will examine the infamous “shower poster”: both as a linchpin for the disparate elements of Prince’s Controversy-era aesthetic; and as a cultural artifact that has retained its divisiveness and, well, “controversy,” for the past 40 years.

Zachary Hoskins


Zachary Hoskins is the author of Dance / Music / Sex / Romance, a song-by-song blog examining the music of Prince in chronological order. His essay, “Rude Boy: Prince as Black New Waver,” was published in 2020 in a special issue of Spectrum, A Journal on Black Men. He has presented and appeared on round tables at the Prince #DM40GB30 virtual symposium in June 2020 and at the University of Minnesota’s Prince from Minneapolis conference in April 2018. He holds an M.A. in Media Arts from the University of Arizona and B.A.’s in Film & Video Studies and Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Michigan.

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dance / music / sex / romance
dance / music / sex / romance

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings


Sam Jennings is an artist and designer who worked for Prince for nine years as his Webmaster and then Art Director. He recently art directed the Up All Nite with Prince Box Set released by Sony and the Prince Estate. He also worked for Pearl Jam and has designed projects for David Bowie, Steve Miller Band, Gorillaz, Swedish House Mafia, and more. As a Production Artist for The Designory, he did creative work for Amazon Music. He also spent five years at Microsoft as a UX Designer. He has created microsites as well as countless presentations and event collateral for EBONY Magazine. He is currently a Creative Consultant for Kenny Smith’s Jet Academy and Avril Lavigne.

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Alisha Lola Jones

Alisha Lola Jones

“Sheep of Another Fold”: Resonances of Prince’s The Rainbow Children in the Invention of B.Slade, The Gospel Artist Formerly Known as Tonéx 


This presentation will encompass a listening to the echoes of Prince’s re-emergence through The Rainbow Children (2001) as amplified in the invention of B.Slade in his EP and mixtape Rainbow (2008) and The Children (2012). Best known as the gospel artist formerly known as Tonéx, B.Slade is a queer preacher-musician who embodies a combination of the most popular archetypes of African-American men’s worship—the preacher and the vocalist head musician—while wielding multifarious rhetorics during his musical performance. Tonéx and B.Slade’s combined corpus contests the portrayal of same-gender-loving men as down low, secretive, deceptive, and always withholding information about who they are from their loved ones. Instead, he proposes that queer believers are “sheep of another fold” (John 10:16) emblematic of an abiding promise that there is hope for musical siblings on the margins.


Alisha Lola Jones


Alisha Lola Jones, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University (Bloomington). Dr. Jones is a graduate of University of Chicago (Ph.D.), Yale Divinity School (M.Div.), Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) and Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.). Dr. Jones’ is a council member of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s (SEM) council and the co-chair of the Music and Religion section of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Additionally, as a performer-scholar, she consults seminaries and arts organizations on curriculum, programming, and content development.

Dr. Jones’ book Flaming: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance (2020) breaks ground by analyzing the role of gospel music-making in constructing and renegotiating gender identity among black men. Dr. Jones’ research interests include musical masculinities, gastromusicology, global pop music, future studies, ecomusicology, music and theology, the music industry, musics of the African diaspora, and emerging research on music and future foodways in conjunction with The Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, CA.

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Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance

Greg Howard

Greg Howard

Greg Howard

Moderator


Greg “King Rem” Howard is a musician, producer, emcee, film composer, and multi-instrumentalist from Cleveland, Ohio, currently residing in Brooklyn. He is the former Director of Special Projects at the Harvard University Hip-Hop Archives and Research Institute and a founding member of the hip-hop band Poetic Republic.

With nine films to date, he is becoming a highly sought composer for many indie film producers. Howard has also lent his talents to producing, mixing, mastering, and arranging songs and albums for various artists. His influences include artists and producers across various genres.


Eloy Lasanta

Eloy Lasanta

Eloy Lasanta


Eloy Lasanta is the host of the Prince’s Friend Youtube Channel for the last 4 years, Eloy started his Prince journey in 1990 with Graffiti Bridge, giving him a strong appreciation for this year’s symposium subject. Since he was a kid, Eloy’s been diving deep into Prince’s catalog and learning everything he could about the man and the music and the legend. Spreading his love of Prince has been his lifelong goal. While Eloy has done many reviews of Prince albums and even interviewed alumni from the Prince camp, he is most well-known for his unique view of Prince as a storyteller and the ability to break down songs and albums in new ways. This, unsurprisingly, comes from his background as a writer and game designer which he has done professionally for over a decade. Producing high-quality videos for Youtube that help bring others into Prince’s music has overtaken much of his time these days, though, which is why he’s so happy to be attending this symposium.

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Edgar Kruize

Edgar Kruize

New Age Revelation


Far too often 1981’s Controversy is labeled as an in-between album, a transitional phase between the rude boy sound and image as presented in the ‘Dirty Mind’ era and the full-blown crossover pop superstar that had emerged by the time the 1999 album rolled around. The significance of the Controversy era has always been hiding in plain sight though. In the lyrics Prince presented those that were willing to look beyond the obvious with themes and ideas that would be dominant in his career for years to come. “Reproduction of a new breed, leaders, stand up, organize,” Prince exclaims in ‘Sexuality’ and two decades later he would repeat the exact same statement in The Rainbow Children. This presentation will argue that all three albums that are celebrated during the #1plus1plus1is3 symposium are all part of the very same narrative that started in the Controversy era. “New age revelation, I think we got a case!


Edgar Kruize


Edgar Kruize is a freelance author, journalist and content creator based in the Netherlands. He is co-owner of communications agency buro33. He is specialized in music in general and specifically the entertainment industry. Kruize has been working for various (trade) magazines, concert and tour promoters, festival organizers and record companies for over two decades. He has written nine books on various musical subjects and is co-owner and publisher at Permafrost Publishers.

All it took was a cough in the Raspberry Beret video to have the young Edgar notice the artist he’d later found out to be Prince. Prince’s impressive body of work has been an inspiration in life and work. Kruize is the author of the book Prince: The Dutch Experience (2017), in which all of Prince’s steps in the Netherlands are retraced. Also, he co-hosts the Dutch Prince-blog PurplePicks.net, wrote the liner notes for the 2019 Sign “O” The Times deluxe DVD/Blu-ray set (along with appearing in the documentary about the making of that movie), and (co)hosted multiple Prince-themed lectures and live interviews. He is also the co-host of the #PrinceTwitterThread series.

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L.A.W.

L*A*W


Most fans know L*A*W as the singer / rapper / dancer / producer & multi-instrumentalist In Funk Legend George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and various offshoots of the legendary P-Funk camp but millions have seen him on national television back at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards & David Letterman in his white kangol glory singing & dancing behind the late legendary British sensation Amy Winehouse as well as being her opening act for her sold-out shows in New York City with his own fiery red-hot 7-piece musically diverse, notorious high energy band, The Planet 12 Movement Being the grandson of Long Island Music Hall Of Fame Inductee / Blues-Soul legend The Late Sam “Bluzman” Taylor & Coming from one of the most famous families in music history, this Brooklyn hood boy from the Crown Heights section has been known to make Hip-Hop (Underground & Commercial styles) work in his favor fusing Funk, Blues, Rock & Roll, R&B/Soul & elements while embracing Country, Pop, Jazz & even Techno exist under one roof while at the same time balancing the commercial element but still staying true to his underground roots. This has resulted in 3 Critically Acclaimed albums that turned into over 40 licensed songs to various networks VH-1, NBA, TV-1, Oxygen, Bravo, A&E, Lifetime & popular MTV shows like “The Real World: Brooklyn & Hollywood” In addition to the P-Funk camp, L*A*W’s musical reputation has firmly placed him among the elite in the Minneapolis camp of his #1 idol Prince thanks to his touring with Morris Day & The Time & more recently, the popular song “She Can Get It” which he not only wrote & produced but also features Minneapolis legends Jellybean Johnson, Monte Moir & Tony M Of The New Power Generation. L*A*W’s historic stint with Amy Winehouse can be captured in the Grammy & Oscar Award Winning Documentary “Amy” which has cemented L*A*W as one of the best & most sought after singer/dancers in the music industry. With a platinum roster of artists, he’s either opened up for or worked with like Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Marva King, Bruno Mars, Black Eyed Peas, Ne-Yo, Lionel Richie, Eric Burdon, Rick James, Chaka Khan, Harry Connick Jr, Fishbone, James Ingram, Jeffrey Osborne, Dionne Warwick & Deniece Williams, L*A*W continues to be an independent but major musical force that’s causing the industry to rewrite their terms and now with his hot buzzing Planet 12 Podcast on Instagram where he showcases his notorious extreme music knowledge & having convos with everyone from Vanessa Williams to Big Daddy Kane. There’s no stopping the Planet 12 Movement soon!


Miles Marshall Lewis

Miles Marshall Lewis

Miles Marshall Lewis


Miles Marshall Lewis has written for The New York TimesRolling Stone, GQ.com, Essence and many other publications. His work has appeared in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of BlacknessHip-Hop: A Cultural OdysseyThe Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, and elsewhere. He’s also the author of There’s a Riot Goin’ On, and Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises.

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Robert Loss

Robert Loss

Deconstruction: Work and Racial Capitalism in The Rainbow Children (And Yes, We'll Be Talking About "Avalanche")


“Capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore

What is “the work”? From the beginning of his career, Prince advocated for the liberation of the oppressed, including the Black American working class that raised him. Work as a motif in Prince’s songs was sometimes limited to the doldrums of a part-time job at a five-and-dime, but more often, especially as a trait of performance and ethos, it was positive, progressive, and constructive. However, as I argued at last year’s symposium, in the early 1990s Prince began to more fully understand himself as a historical subject—that is, subject to and subjugated by the predations of systemic White supremacy and capitalism’s exploitation of Black labor. The consequences of this understanding were never just about his own situation with Warner Bros., and after he emancipated himself from the label, his critique of what Cedric Robinson termed “racial capitalism” continued to evolve.

And so: The Rainbow Children…and “Avalanche.” In the first years of the new millennium, deeply inspired by a spiritual rebirth, and reinvigorated by jazz, Prince questioned history to envision a better future. Compellingly, The Rainbow Children‘s narrative situates “the work” as a necessary deconstruction. Oppressed people are born into structures of racial capitalism and mediated history—the “Digital Garden”—built through the exploitation of their ancestors. For the sake of the pluralistic, free, and equitable future he’d always imagined, Prince dramatizes here that labor must be redirected toward the dismantling of these structures and the so-called knowledge that enshrines them. Responding with Black liberation theology, Prince examines contemporary media in “The Work Pt. 1” and slavery’s legacy in “Family Name.” But perhaps his most pointed deconstruction occurs on “Avalanche,” a ballad recorded for One Nite Alone while The Rainbow Children was being mastered and usually performed every night before “Family Name” on the 2002 ONA Tour. Fusing history, politics, and the music business, Prince again shows that the mythically natural disaster of racial capitalism is, in fact, socially constructed. Who, he asks, will take the responsibility for it? Who will be willing to do the work?


Robert Loss


Robert Loss is an associate professor in the Writing, Literature, and Philosophy department at the Columbus College of Art and Design. He is the author of Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic) which includes a chapter on Prince’s later work. His essay “How the Exodus Began: Prince and the Black Working Class Imagination” appeared in a recent special Prince issue of Black Magnolias Literary Journal. He has presented at numerous academic conferences, including last year’s Prince #DM40GB30 Virtual Symposium. A member of the band Blind Engineer, he lives in Columbus, Ohio. He’s hard at work researching and writing a book about Prince.

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Peggy McCreary

Peggy McCreary

Peggy McCreary


As audio engineer, Peggy “Mac” McCreary contributed significantly to several Prince and Prince associates’ projects including Prince’s 1999, Purple Rain, and Parade, as well as Vanity 6’s self-titled debut and The Time’s What Time is It?

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Scott McCullough

Scott McCullough

Scott McCullough


Scott McCullough is best known as a director / DP for high-end commercials and music videos.  McCullough’s most notable for working with Prince, Paul Newman, NASCAR, Ford, GM, Budweiser, Pepsi, Kubota, Target, and many more Fortune 500 clients with top ad agencies such as Leo Burnett, Doner, DDB, Team Detroit, Martin Williams, Deutsch, J. Walter Thompson, and many more top-tier creative agencies. 

McCullough has several feature films in active development, as the director for The Mission (12MM), the Vietnam PTSD film with Martin Sheen Captain For Dark Mornings (20MM), No Cops With Wedding Rings(5MM), 26 Floors (16MM), and writer on the Sublime biopic What I Got (8MM). Television projects include creator / director for the veteran-based dramatic series Spent Rounds and Holiday Motel.

McCullough was the creator, writer, and director for R.J. Reynolds Thunder Theater 70mm NASCAR experience film 100% and No Bull—billed as the world’s largest mobile theater. He also directed and shot dozens of projects for Prince at one of the most successful times in his career including the gold RIAA rated (over 1MM in sales) projects “Gett Off“, “Diamonds and Pearls” and “Sexy M.F.” home videos – and over a dozen live concerts and other projects amassing the most credits with Prince from Graffiti Bridge to several documentaries yet to be released. 

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