

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sound Falls 'Round Me Like Rain
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Spiritual Geniuses of Black Women in Literature, Music, and Religion
with Melanie HillAbout this EventWith a lecture and live violin performance featuring Dr. Melanie R. Hill's new book, Colored Women Sittin' on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music (UNC Press), this talk shows how literature and music, sound and sermon function wholly through the spiritual geniuses of Black women writers, preachers, artists, and freedom movement activists. From Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison to Ruby Sales and Aretha Franklin, Colored Women Sittin' on High highlights Black women preachers, writers, and artists as the virtuosic alchemists of our time.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/f4888dc0-f146-11f0-bb50-63c7d2db19a9-rimg-w498-h740-dc4f3f36-gmir.jpg Melanie R. Hill, Ph.D. is Named Term Chair Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Global Racial Justice and Assistant Professor of American Literature with specializations in African American Literature, Black Music Performance, and Womanist Literature/Thought/Theology in the Department of English at Rutgers University, Newark. Her newly released book, Colored Women Sittin’ on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music (UNC Press), explores the literary and musicological histories of Black preaching women. Colored Women Sittin’ on High has been officially endorsed and praised by both Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, and civil rights legend, Ruby Sales. In October 2025, Dr. Hill was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Hill is a classically-trained Gospel Soul Violinist who has performed in concert in Paris, France, at the White House on two occasions under the Obama administration, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Apollo Theater, the Staples Center, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and for the late Pope Francis’s Papal Mass.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, entertainment, concerts, live-music, theatre
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Philadelphia
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Max Kade Center (329A)
- **lat**: 39.9529913
- **long**: -75.19228720000001
- **full address**: Max Kade Center (329A), 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

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- **organizer**: Center for Africana Studies (https://allevents.in/org/center-for-africana-studies/27000420)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Max Kade Center (329A), 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Center for Africana Studies
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, music, entertainment, concerts, live-music, theatre
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