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Check out the photo and feature on professor Christopher Washburne in the NY Times:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/showcase-159/?scp=1&sq=washburne&st=cse
The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is proud to announce this year's colloquium series!Monday, November 10 at 4pm in 701C, Center for Ethnomusicology
Sonia Seeman
Metaphoricity, Iconicity and Mimesis: Towards a Musical Semantics of Social Identity in Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) Music
Abstract:
One primary concern of musicology and ethnomusicology has been refining
theoretical tools for analyzing the role of musical practices in
constructing, maintaining and challenging social identity. This paper
investigates the process by which social meanings are ascribed to sound
through the example of a Turkish genre, Roman (“Gypsy”) dance tune (Roman
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Congratulations to Faculty -
Prof. Ellen Gray, who has accepted a one-year fellowship for 2009-10 at the Rutgers' Center for Historical Analysis and to
Prof. Christopher Washburne, who has been promoted to tenured Associate Professor of Music!
The Center is delighted to announce that our project to repatriate Laura Boulton's 1946 Alaska recordings has been funded by the National Science Foundation with a two-year Early Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) of $136,000.
(Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 1999) Associate Professor of Music; Chair, Ethnomusicology Area Committee, 2008-9;Director, Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. Jazz; Salsa; Latin American and Caribbean musics; music and identity;performance.
Email: cjw5@columbia.edu
Website: http://chriswashburne.com
(Ph.D., Ethnomusicology and Folklore, Indiana University 1996) Associate Professor of
Music; Director, Center for Ethnomusicology:
cultural policy, music and armed conflict, intellectual property,
history of aurality, Latin American cultural studies, music and globalization.
Email: ao2110@columbia.edu
(Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology,
Duke University 2005) Associate Professor of Music: performance; affect; gender;
ethnographic theory and method; poetics; urban cultural studies; place; vocality; fado; Portugal; Europe.
Email: leg2114@columbia.edu
