“To his students at Tufts University, he’s Professor Pennington, musicologist. [At] the livestreaming site Twitch, he’s TrooperSJP, a prolific streamer of story-heavy video games and tabletop role-playing games,” writes Zoë Madonna in Sunday’s (6/7) Boston Globe. “On Thursday evening, Dr. Stephan Pennington replaced a weekly video-game stream with a music history lecture on Black music and the civil rights movement, raising funds for bail assistance nonprofit The Bail Project. His streams usually draw around 30 viewers … so a goal of $500 felt reasonable, he said. But … by the time he logged off around 2:30 a.m., the stream had raised upwards of $10,000…. The stream had been attended by former students, fellow musicologists, regular watchers of his game streams, and more…. During the four-hour lecture … Pennington covered critical musical moments of the ongoing struggle for racial justice, from Marian Anderson’s benchmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial up to Beyonce’s 2018 ‘Homecoming’ set at Coachella…. ‘There’s so much power and history in music if you get to know it, and I hope that I can help get people to know music in that way,’ he said. The lecture is archived at https://www.twitch.tv/troopersjp.”
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