marketing, community engagement and new audiences with focus on diversity inclusion and Arts advocacy in the Performing Arts.
He also has a demonstrated history of leadership as an awarded Community health and wellness/ diversity inclusion project manager from a decade of work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
With a Cum Laude degree from UCLA and early college years at Georgetown University, he has since presented scholarly lectures in Conferences and universities across the country.
Bill Doggett is the nephew and namesake of 1950s' legendary Rock n Roll jazz organist, Bill Doggett.
The younger Bill Doggett was born into a music family with deep roots to Philadelphia performing arts history with connections to Marian Anderson, Roland Hayes and Mastbaum Conservatory 1936-40.
Bill Doggett is alsoa passionate lecturer-teacher specialized inmulti media lectures which connect and integrate themes in American history, music, historic media and pop culture to current events.
Doggett uses this blended paradigm that contextualizes history, music, historic media and current events as an inter generational bridge to create dialogue and engage individuals within and across diverse communities. This diversity includes communities of Color and those impacted by Incarceration.
#Roseanne Reboot #ArchieBunker
Contemporary Media and Race collide......
Are there roots in
historical media and popular culture?
#BaltimoreFreddieGray: The Problem of Black Maleness &Race in Early Recorded Sound May 12th, 2018 was the Conference closing presentation of the 52nd annual Conference of The Association For Recorded Sound Collections, Baltimore, Maryland
Three important unedited phone video clips
Brand new Podcast
Bill Doggett as Special Guest
Black Think Tank Blogtalk Radio with Dr. William Rogers
Doggett was commissioned in 2015 by The Recorded Sound and Motion Picture division of The Library of Congress to produce a Pilot Series focused on Race, Music, Film and Message at the dawn of The 20th Century. Doggett's Archive of Early Sound recordings{1899-1935}, rare Performing Arts ephemera and background in Silent Film from UCLA formed the source material for this engaging Pilot Series.
Previously scheduled to launch during Fall 2017 on The National Jukebox, the web portal for The Library of Congress' Recorded Sound and Motion Picture Division, http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/, the project launch is on hold due to fears associated with the rise of the Alt Right and Supremacy movements.
Yet, the contextualized topic of race, historical media and popular culture is a hot topic of great interest as it relates to #AnthemProtest and #Charlottesville
For 2018, I have a new performance lecture that addresses the legacies of The Civil War on Race and Technology in popular entertainment at the dawn of the 20th century.
We are stronger together in our Diversity..... Diversity matters
With great expertise inDiversity in The Performing Arts strategic marketing, new business development and community engagement, Bill Doggett has a long history of Artist-Composer-Community
Relations.
He is also an award winning Exhibitions Curator-Archivist with a series of well received Exhibitions over the past 10 years in San Francisco.
Doggett's new business development, community and public affairs expertise is sourced from his first career 1985-2005 as a corporate business and entertainment photographer based in Los Angeles
"History Interactions" is an extended visceral Photo Essay of 40 images of the interaction of individuals experiencing history created during the opening
weekend of the new Washington DC Smithsonian National Museum of African American
History and Culture
To view more images from " History Interactions" visit
The Old Mint, one of the few pre 1906 SF Earthquake buildings to survive the earthquake and fire
Bill Doggett, "News-eum" Archive Exhibition
World War 2 San Francisco Newsprint Yellow Journalism and Fake News- A Commemoration Exhibit for the 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 re: Japanese Internment after Pearl Harbor
(Videos 1/2)
Sunday, March
5th, 2017 Panel presented by
The National
Japanese Historical Society on
Executive
Order 9066,
Race, War
Hysteria and Newsprint Yellow Journalism
(3rd Video)
For two years 2017 and 2016, Doggett was honored by The Friends of The San Francisco Public Library as aTalk Series Lecturer for the annual San Francisco Public Library city wide Black History Month Events .
With very competitive speaking/lecture fee rates,you can book Bill Doggett and inquiry directly by using the link here
An Introduction to The Bill Doggett Performing Arts Archive
The World of Contemporary African American Composers:Anthony Davis, Alvin Singleton, Olly Wilson, Adolphus Hailstork, Roy Jennings, Tania Leon, Valerie Capers, Joel Thompson,
T.J. Anderson,Trevor Weston, Dominque Le Gendre, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Shawn Okpebholo, Jeffrey Mumford, TonyTixier, Renee Baker, Bill Banfield, John Wineglass, Kerwin Young, Billy Childs, Kevin Scott, James Newton,Alicia Hall Moran, Julius Williams,Richard Thompson
Beginning in 2012, Doggett worked with renowned composer, Anthony Davis, gifted emerging Black/Scottish composer, Richard Thompson through 2014 and Harlem's Abbyssinian Baptist Church former Music Director, composer, Roy Jennings during 2015.
Doggett has also provided consultation to new generation composers profiled on his Contemporary Black Composers Resource.
Doggett's Black Composers Resource is unique on the web
This Resource showcasing three dynamic pages with over 75 music samples in multiple music players titled Black Composers , Black Composers 2 and Commissioning Black Composerswas conceived with expertly designed programming and layout of genres of music, world premiere performances lent by composers.
To book Bill Doggett as Consultant for programming the extraordinary music, composer and curatorial recommendations, please use the Contact Us link
First Place Winner: The American Prize in Choral Music
Joel Thompson's
The Seven Last Words of The Unarmed
The American Civil War, Slavery and The 13th Amendment
A Tribute &Meditation @150 Years 1865-2015
ICAMus, The International Center for American Music presents
Bill Doggett
Productions' short documentary educational film that honored the 150th anniversary Dec
6th 2015 of Congress' ratification of The 13th Amendment that outlawed SLAVERY.
Emancipation Proclamation:The Journey To Freedom: The Civil War@150 Years
Part 1 (0:01-8:32) of the film is a
great showcase of the many rare premiere recordings of Negro Spirituals in my
archive and classic settings of Negro Spirituals by Moses Hogan with soprano Barbara Hendricks.
Part 2 (8:33-15:25) showcases a sample of the rare Abolitionist and Civil War newspapers in my
Archive accompanied by dynamic new settings of two Spirituals by the
contemporary American composer, Shawn Okpebholo performed by baritone, Will Liverman.
Emancipation Proclamation: San Francisco and African American Concert Singers: In Paradisum 1880-2000
Published in The Argonaut , the Journal of The San Francisco Museum and Historical Society
This excellent 16 page Feature work filled with rare archival material is available in its digital and hard copy formats
Rave Review of Journal Feature by former San Francisco Opera Chorus member, Ken Malucelli
" I am continually impressed by the excellent feature articles in The Argonaut, the quarterly published by the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, but Bill Doggett’s outstanding piece on African American concert and opera artists struck so close to home, I had to comment.
Being a native San Franciscan growing up in the Excelsior district during the ‘40s-‘50s, I also had the privilege of being one of the first members of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, right off the bat an ethnically diverse group. In addition, my Italian father and his brothers owned and operated a grocery store in the heart of the then-predominately-black Fillmore district. And last, I was a Professional Chorister with San Francisco Opera from 1972-1989, and became friendlly with several singers mentioned in Mr. Doggett’s article.
The photos of Leontyne Price reminded me of being on stage with her during one of her last performances of Aïda; the photo of Leona Mitchell brought to mind her lovely Micaela (Carmen) and Liù (Turandot), and the mention of Reri Grist reminded me of the photo I have of her and me posing in costume (Manon, 1981) for a magazine article.
Bill Doggett’s piece should be reprinted in SF Opera’s season programs as well as in other arts magazines and publications. It is a vital link to the histories, both political and cultural, of African American artists."
Celebrating History
Bill Doggett Productions,As Exhibitions Curator/Archivist was featured for the second year in a row in The 5th Annual San Francisco History Expo- February 28-March 1st 2015 at the historic 1906 Earthquake surviving Old Mint.
The 2015 Expo celebrated The Centennial of the 1915 San Francisco Pan Pacific International Exposition that announced the rebirth of the city after The Great 1906 Earthquake View the Slide Show
