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Colloquium: "Kika Kila: Hawaiian Guitars and Steel Bars in the Era of the Overthrow" - John W. Troutman

January 27, 2012 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology

The Center for Ethnomusicology Spring Colloquium Series Presents: read more »

Prof. Ellen Gray on "Fado History, Fado Form" at BAM (12/03/11)

November 30, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Location: 
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Hillman Attic Studio

"Fado History, Fado Form"
Lila Ellen Gray
(Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University)
Part of the 2011 Next Wave Festival

Saturday, December 3, 2011
6:30pm
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Hillman Attic Studio
(45min)
$10; $5 for Friends of BAM
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Steven Shaviro: Splitting the Atom: Post-Cinematic Articulations of Sound and Vision (Dec 2)

November 28, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology

The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University Fall Colloquium Series Presents:

Steven Shaviro
(DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University)

"Splitting the Atom: Post-Cinematic Articulations of Sound and Vision"

Friday, December 2, 2011
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology
Dodge Hall 701C
Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and Open to the Public read more »

Christine Yano on "Singing Black Tears: An African American Prodigal Son in Japan" (Nov. 14)

October 31, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology

The Fall 2011 Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series presents:

Christine Yano (Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Singing Black Tears: An African American Prodigal Son in Japan

Monday, November 14, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology
701C Dodge Hall
Columbia University Morningside Campus read more »

Regina Bendix: "Verbal Arts and the Senses" (Wed. Oct. 26)

October 21, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 4:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology

The Fall 2011 Ethnomusicology Colloquium presents:

Verbal Arts and the Senses: A Bricolage of Sources Expressing the Inexpressible
 

By Regina Bendix
Professor of European Ethnology,  the University of Göttingen, Germany

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
4:00pm
701C Dodge Hall (Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University)

The working of the senses in tandem with cognition facilitates the experience of pleasure and pain, fear and elation - but to what extent can (or should) this realm, situated between individual experience and social coding, be accessible to cultural research? read more »

Prof. Dwight Reynolds (UCSB): A Musical History of the Muwashshah - Oct. 21, 2011 at 4pm

October 21, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm

The Fall 2011 Department of Music Colloquium series presents:

A Musical History of the Muwashshah

By Dwight F. Reynolds
Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara

Friday, October 21, 2011
4.00 - 6.00pm
Dodge Hall, 622

This presentation will focus on the musical history of the Muwashshah beginning with its first radical break with all previous Arab art music sometime around the 11th century, through several different historical changes, and finally looking at different regional styles from different parts of the contemporary Arab world. read more »

Timothy D. Taylor: New Capitalism, Globalization, and the Commodification of Taste (Sept. 29)

September 22, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology

Please join us Thursday September 29 for the Center for Ethnomusicology's Fall 2011 Colloquium series, presenting:
 
New Capitalism, Globalization, and the Commodification of Taste

Prof. Timothy D. Taylor (Musicology/Ethnomusicology, UCLA)

Thursday, September 29, 2011
12.00 - 2.00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology, Dodge Hall, 701 C

Description: read more »

Ethnomusicology Undergraduate Student Interest Group, First Meeting of the Year, Thursday 9/22, 7:30PM

September 22, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 7:30pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology
The Columbia University Undergraduate Ethnomusicology Group will be
holding its first meeting of the year on Thursday, September 22nd at
7:30pm. The meeting will be held in the Ethnocenter, aka 701C Dodge.
We will be discussing events for the coming semester, meeting other
ethnomusicologists, and laying out the final plans for our new
website! If you have ever considered engaging with music in its social
capacities, you will enjoy this meeting.

Please respond to Daro Behroozi ( scoops.behroozi@gmail.com ) if you plan to
come and forward this to anyone who might be interested!

Refreshments will be served.

Nora Gamez: "Living in transition: the politics of popular music in contemporary Cuba" (Sept. 22, 6pm)

September 22, 2011 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
Casa Hispanica, Columbia University - 612 West 116th Street, Room 201, New York, NY

Colloquium announcement:

Nora Gamez

"Living in transition: the politics of popular music in contemporary Cuba"

Ms. Gamez has a MSc. degree in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.

Presented by CSER, Center for Ethnomusicology and the Department of Latin American Cultures

Location: Casa Hispanica, Columbia University - 612 West 116th Street, Room 201, New York, NY (map)

For further information visit the CSER website.

Concert Announcement: Native Sounds North & South: Traditional & Popular Music from Alaska, Arizona & the Andes

September 17, 2010 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 
Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theater at the Dana Center, Barnard College (117th and Broadway)
Native Sounds North&South: Traditional and Popular Music from Alaska, Arizona and the Andes

New and traditional sounds from Native North and South America.

As part of the conference on  "Music and Indigeneity in the Americas" (Oct. 1-2, 2010, Columbia University) The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is pleased to present a unique performance of traditional and popular music from Native North and South America, including hip hop from Alaska, country music from Arizona, and Nasa flute music from Colombia. Please click on artist names below for more information on each performer.

Featuring: read more »

Conference Announcement: Music and Indigeneity in the Americas

September 17, 2010 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 9:00am - Saturday, October 2, 2010 - 5:00pm
Location: 
414 Sindeband East (Schapiro Center, NE Corner of Campus)

PLEASE NOTE RECENT CHANGES TO SCHEDULE AND LOCATIONS 9/27/10

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce our upcoming conference entitled Music and Indigeneity in the Americas. Featuring scholars, activists, and artists from North and South America, the conference will present panels on topics ranging from repatriation and indigenous cultural rights, to law, media, and education, to new forms of collaborative research on popular and traditional music in the context of community-based cultural activism. read more »

No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates -- Opening

April 26, 2010 by jmukai

Event Start: 
Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street
No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates
A photographic and sonic exploration

Photography by Alison Cartwright
Sound by Maria Sonevytsky

Opening reception 7:00 - 9:00
Saturday May 15, 2010
A performance of traditional Crimean Tatar Music 7:00 - 7:30 pm
Suggested Donation: $5

Show
May 16 - September 26, 2010
Wed - Sunday 11:30 - 5:00 pm

The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
(bet. 2nd and 3rd avenues)
New York, NY 10003
ukrainianmuseum.org
 read more »

Postcolonial Play: Socializing Race and Language on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua -- Amanda Minks

January 19, 2010 by jmukai

Event Start: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 5:30pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall

Tuesday April 20th, 5:30 pm in 701C Dodge Hall
Amanda Minks
Postcolonial Play: Socializing Race and Language on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua

This talk examines the endurance of colonial legacies of race and language in the socializing activities of Miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Along with institutional contexts, informal play and performance are key sites for socializing racialized concepts of persons and languages. The resilience of race as a prominent feature of cultural hierarchies raises questions about celebratory discourses (both popular and academic) of cultural interaction and hybridity, alternately viewed as creolization, transculturation or interculturalism. read more »

Writing Musical Lives -- John Szwed

March 25, 2010 by jmukai

Event Start: 
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:30pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall

Writing Musical Lives
John Szwed
The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall, April 13, 5:30 pm
 
This talk will focus on some of the virtues and problems of writing about the lives of musicians.  It will include a quick survey of the types and uses of life narratives by ethnomusicologists, folklorists, social scientists, and popular writers, with a short discussion of some recent innovative biographical works.  Examples will be drawn from a variety of biographies, including my books on Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, and Alan Lomax
  read more »

Between the Heart of Christ and the Heart of Mary -- Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

April 9, 2010 by jmukai

Event Start: 
Friday, April 9, 2010 - 4:00pm
Location: 
622 Dodge Hall
The Music Department invites you to a talk by

Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History
Department of History, University of Texas.

Respondent:
Susan Boynton
The Music Department, Columbia University.

April 9, Dodge Hall 622, 4 pm

Between the Heart of Christ and the Heart of Mary:
The Global Jesuit Mission in Quito ca. 1750.

The paper offers a typological reading of a 17th-18th century Jesuit church in Quito (Ecuador). It demonstrates that the façade, chapels, altars, and images in the temple were originally organized around a typological reading of the Apostles Peter and Paul as prefigurations, on the one hand, of the Petrine, institutional, masculine, Christological, Roman side of the order and, on the other, of the Pauline, global, feminine, Marian, missionary dimension. Typology readings of the Old and New Testament (prefiguration- fulfillment) helped organize the layout of cities, temples, and colonial institutions throughout the Monarquía de España. In short, typology as a reading technique and as a historiographical sensibility was central to the global expansion of early modern Catholicism.
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