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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 »

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 »

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.

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 »

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 »

Sarah Weiss: "Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception"

April 4, 2008 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Columbia University
Sarah Weiss

Ethnomusicologist Sarah Weiss (Yale University) will be speaking in the Center on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 4PM. The title of her talk is: "Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception." A reception will follow the talk. The event is free and open to the public.

Sarah Weiss has addressed issues of gender, aesthetics, postcoloniality, and hybridity in both her writing and teaching. Her book, Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java was published in 2006 by KITLV Press in Leiden. Weiss is currently working on a comparative project exploring women and performance across several of the world’s major religions. She holds the PhD in Musicology from New York University.

A Conversation with Kay Kaufman Shelemay

March 10, 2008 by EthnoAdmin

Event Start: 
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 4:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall
Shelemay

Thursday, March 27 at 4PM, 701C Dodge Hall

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST RSVP TO aaf19@columbia.edu to attend this event. A paper by Prof. Shelemay is being distributed to those who RSVP and will be discussed at the event.  read more »

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