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.

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce a film screening and discussion with Prof. Hugo Zemp, Director of Research at CNRS, Paris, France. Prof. Zemp is among the most prolific and influential ethnomusicologists of the past 30 years, and we are honored to host an informal meeting to discuss his current ethnographic and documentary work. This event is open to graduate students and faculty in music at Columbia, only. Requests to attend from others should be sent to Aaron Fox at aaf19@columbia.edu and will be accommodated on a space-available basis if possible.

Prof. Zemp will be screening his film, "An African Brass Band" (filmed by Prof. Zemp in Cote D'Ivoire in 2002) and discussing African urban musics and ethnographic videography.

WEDNESDAY, April 11, 2007, 4-6 PM, 701C Dodge Hall
Time has been confirmed, please note change from earlier posting.
ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED. YOU MUST RSVP TO PROF. FOX TO ATTEND