Category: Popular Music
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.
Event Start:
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 12:00pm
Colloquium and Lunch DiscussionWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 (lunch seminar), 12 pm
Dr. Elizabeth Travassos
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
"Lists of words, inventories and enchanting rites in Brazilian popular song"
Event Start:
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
“Oyinbo, I go chop your dollar”: Yahoo Boyz, dirty money, and 419 politics in Nigerian popular musicA talk by Christopher Waterman
Dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA
Thursday, October 9
5:00 PM
701C Dodge Hall
In Africa as elsewhere, popular music has long been complexly articulated with the struggle to create, texture and defend viable life-spaces under challenging economic circumstances. This talk is a reflection on recent developments in Nigerian popular music, focusing on songs dealing with the 419/internet scammer controversy ("Yahoozee," by Olu Maintain, "No More Yahoozee [The Reply]," by Harri Best Moradiyo, and "Oyinbo, I Go Chop Your Dollar," by Nkem Owoh), and on musicians' reactions to the Central Bank of Nigeria's recent attempt to outlaw the "spraying" of cash at ceremonies.
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