Category: music
Event Start:
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 9:00am - Saturday, October 2, 2010 - 5:00pm
Location:
414 Sindeband East (Schapiro Center, NE Corner of Campus)
PLEASE NOTE RECENT
CHANGES TO SCHEDULE AND LOCATIONS 9/27/10
The
Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce our upcoming
conference entitled Music and Indigeneity in the Americas.
Featuring scholars, activists, and artists from North and South
America, the conference will present panels on topics ranging from
repatriation and indigenous cultural rights, to law, media, and
education, to new forms of collaborative research on popular and
traditional music in the context of community-based cultural activism. read more »
Event Start:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall

The presentation will address social conflict from the perspectives opened by ongoing research projects being carried out in marginalized areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Saturday, September 20
3:00 PM
Panel Discussion:
1986 Mixtape: How American Music played out through the end of the 1980s.
A roundtable in connection with Matt Keegan's solo show "Now's the Time."
Panelists: Tammy Rae Carland, Cheryl Keyes, Alan Licht, David Novak (moderator), Dave Muller.
Anna Helwing Gallery
2766 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034-2642
http://www.annahelwing.com/home.html
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This ethnographic journey into the New York Salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider, and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commericial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged "the people" over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances.
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