Bilal Salaam
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Rutgers University (MA)
Rutgers University (MS)
Morgan State University (BA)
Istanbul Commerce University (2024-)
Bilal Salaam | |
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| Born | Bilal Salaam Newark, New Jersey, United States |
| Education | Ibn Haldun University (PhD) Rutgers University (MA) Rutgers University (MS) Morgan State University (BA) |
| Occupations | professor, historiographer, composer, academic |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Rutgers University (2011-2013) Istanbul Commerce University (2024-) |
| Patrons | New York City Teaching Fellows |
| Thesis | American Ventriloquism: Lambert Hendricks and Ross |
| Academic advisors | Lewis Porter Jay M. Shuttleworth |
| Website | bilalsalaam |
Bilal Salaam is an American professor, art historiographer, composer and academic. He is currently a lecturer at Istanbul Ticaret University.
Through a Fanonian framework, Salaam's historiographical Master of Arts dissertation entitled American Ventriloquism focused on specific genres of American art, not as products of cultural appropriation, but cultural projection, wherein majorities project their cultures on to minorities.
His Master of Science in Education capstone employed Patricia Carini's descriptive review as formulated vis a vis Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology through the lens of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope, Pedagogy in Process, Pedagogy of the Heart, Pedagogy of Freedom and Education for Critical Consciousness.
Musical career
As a graduate of Rutgers University's Music Historiography Master of Arts program,[1] and under the program's chair Lewis Porter, Bilal Salaam's thesis, American Ventriloquism framed vocalese through a theoretical deconstruction of cultural appropriation.
Salaam's musical sound was described by Soul Culture[2] magazine as "a left of centre, soulful "Kid A".
Washington D.C.'s City Paper[3] characterized "Heart Alarm", the single from Salaam's third album, Pedagogia Do Oprimido, as "calm", "quirky", and "acquired".
Kevin Nottingham[4] called Bilal's Boulder, a 2012 release, "seven tracks of sheer aural orgasms".
Prior to recording as a solo artist, Bilal Salaam toured[5] internationally with the Morgan State University Choir, and Raheem DeVaughn.
Salaam's Swordlord series is inspired by Muhammad's swords.
