Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are encouraged to save the date for a Power of Diversity Lecture Series event with Bryan Adamson, the David L. & Ann Brennan Professor of Law and associate dean of diversity and inclusion at the School of Law.
Adamson will present “The ‘Blurred Lines’ of Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear: Music as a Communication Tort, Divorce Narrative and the Performance of Masculinity” Wednesday, Nov. 16, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom.
Adamson’s areas of expertise are mass media and First Amendment law, and he has practiced extensively in re-entry advocacy, housing, mortgage lending and consumer protection.
In his lecture, Adamson will focus on Marvin Gaye’s 1978 album Here, My Dear and its surrounding relational and legal layers—including Gaye’s ex-wife’s public threat to sue him. Adamson’s talk will explore the legal dimensions of that threat, and whether Here, My Dear conforms to or confounds frameworks which inform the performance of masculinity.