The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present "A Conversation With Jonathan Sterne" on Thursday, March 22, 2007, in the Center for Ethnomusicology (701C Dodge Hall), from 12-2 PM.

Jonathan Sterne is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (Canada), and the author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. (Duke 2003), among many other important writings. Prof. Sterne will be speaking at the "Technologies of the Diva" conference on Saturday, March 24, in a public lecture. Click here for more information about that conference.

This event is a limited-attendance seminar. It is open to graduate students and faculty in the Department of Music and other Departments at Columbia and in the Consortium, by RSVP only to Aaron Fox at aaf19@columbia.edu. Please RSVP as soon as possible. Space is limited.

Prof. Sterne's online CV may be downloaded from the link below this entry. Or learn much more about his work by visiting his website, Sterneworks.org

Technologies of the Diva: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference on Opera

Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th March 2007
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 116th and 118th Streets)
New York City
Click here for conference website

Technologies of the Diva: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference on Opera

Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th March 2007
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 116th and 118th Streets)
New York City
Click here for conference website

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce a public colloquium by Deborah Wong, Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of California at Riverside and President-Elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Title: "Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More."
Date and Time: Thursday March 29, 4-6 PM
Location: 701C Dodge Hall
(Center for Ethno, click here for directions)

Space is limited and RSVP is requested to aaf19@columbia.edu

About Prof. Deborah Wong: Deborah Wong is Professor of Music at the University of California at Riverside, and President Elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has published two books, Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Ritual (Chicago University Press, 2001), and Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music (Routledge, 2004). She performs with Satori Daiko, a taiko ensemble in Los Angeles, and this presentation is from her book in progress, Big Beats: Taiko in Southern California.

Aaron Fox, Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, will be speaking in the Music Department Spring Colloquium Series at Columbia University on Friday, March 30, 2007 from 4 to 6 PM in 620 Dodge Hall.

The title of his talk is "Country Music's (Late) Modern Period."

Ruth Rosenberg, a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Dept. of Music, will be responding to the paper. Open to the public.