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