The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University presents:
a talk by:
Prof. Jonathan Shannon (Hunter College)
“Composition, Tradition & the Anxiety of Musical Influence in Syrian & Moroccan Andalusian Musics”
Monday, December 4, 2006 4 – 6 PM
at The Center for Ethnomusicology
701C Dodge Hall
Columbia Morningside Campus
Reception to follow

Jonathan Shannon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College. He earned his PhD inAnthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research focuses on musical aesthetics and cultural politics in the Arab world and Mediterranean. He has conducted field research in Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, and Spain. His book, Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, was recently published by Wesleyan University Press in their Music/Culture Series. _______________________________________________________________ Download Event Poster (.pdf)

You are invited to an evening of gagaku music and sacred dance, presented by the Institute of Medieval Japanese Studies in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture.

Gagaku – Japanese Royal Court Music and Sacred Dance
Performed by the Ono Gagaku Society of Tokyo
and celebrants of the International Shinto Foundation
Part I: Orchestral Works (Kangengaku)
Part II: Sacred Shrine Maiden Dance (Kagura mai)
Part III: Dance Pieces (Bugaku)

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is not required.
Date: Thursday, November 30th
6:00 – 7:00 Pre-concert reception
7:00 – 8:30
Concert Location: The Riverside Theatre at Riverside Church 91 Claremont Avenue (Just north of 120th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive)
Map & Directions: http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/about/?directions

Paid parking is available at Claremont Avenue Garage. Entrance is on 120th Street, between Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue.

This concert is sponsored by the International Shinto Foundation (New York) and the International Foundation for Arts and Culture (Tokyo). For more information, please visit http://www.donaldkeenecenter.org

Renowned master of the African kora
Prince Diabate
to lecture and perform in the Dept. of Music at Columbia University
Date: Friday, Dec. 1, 2006
Time: 6-8 PM
Room: 622 Dodge Hall, Morningside Campus
Open to the public; space is limited so arrive promptly.

"Lion in the Grass" will perform on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006, at the Ding Dong Lounge (929 Columbus Ave., at 106th St.), starting at 8:30 PM. Please come out and support the ensemble while saying goodbye to the semester. "Lion in the Grass" is Columbia's Bluegrass ensemble, led by Ethnomusicology PhD student Toby King and sponsored by the Center and the Music Performance Program.

Graduate students in the Department of Music are invited to attend a special Center for Ethnomusicology "Deep Hang" seminar with Profs. Paul Berliner and Louise Meintjes, from Duke University, and Mr. Cosmas Magaya, a renowned Zimbabwean master of the Shona mbira, and a long-time consultant to Prof. Berliner. For more information on this event contact Prof. Fox at aaf19@columbia.edu This event is not open to the public; admission is by permission only. RSVP is requested. A reception will follow the seminar. Please be familiar with Prof. Berliner's book The Soul of Mbira, and Prof. Meintjes' book Sound of Africa! if you plan to attend.

Graduate students in the Department of Music are invited to attend a special Center for Ethnomusicology "Deep Hang" seminar with Prof. Georgina Born of Cambridge University, UK. For more information on this event contact Prof. Fox at aaf19@columbia.edu This event is not open to the public; admission is by permission only. RSVP is requested. A reception will follow the seminar. Please be familiar with Prof. Born's book Rationalizing Culture if you plan to attend.

Program Series: “Ancient Soundscapes: New Echoes from Japan’s Musical Past”

Talk Title: FABRICATING SELF-IMAGE THROUGH MUSIC: THE RYUKYU KINGDOM’S ARTISTIC STRATEGY IN HER RELATIONSHIP WITH JAPAN AND CHINA

NAOKO TERAUCHI (Kobe University, and Visiting Professor of Music, Columbia University, and 2006-7 Envoy, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan)

TIME AND LOCATION:
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
6-7:30 PM
Kent Hall, Columbia University
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 116 TH STREET & AMSTERDAM AVENUE
116th and Amsterdam Ave., NY NY

SUMMARY: Historically, the Ryukyu Kingdom, also known as Okinawa, maintained close relations with both China and Japan. By absorbing, blending, and elaborating upon various cultural elements from both countries, Ryukyu developed several different types of music, dance, and theater. This lecture will address how, in response to the expectations of China and Japan, the Ryukyuan people tried to fabricate self-image through their performing arts as well as how they carefully selected these performances in accordance with time, place, and occasion.

PRESENTED BY: THE DONALD KEENE CENTER OF JAPANESE CULTURE AND THE INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL JAPANESE STUDIES

Please visit www.donaldkeenecenter.org for more information.

The Native American Studies Today Series presents:

Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman (Associate Professor of American Culture and Music, Univ. of Michigan)

Lecture Title: “Hula Lives! Performing the Archives, Recuperating Our History”

Date: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Location: CSER Seminar Room/420 Hamilton Hall,
Columbia University, NY NY
Time: 4PM-6PM

For more information visit:
http://www.music.columbia.edu/cecenter/NAST/

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present a talk by:

Klisala Harrison (PhD Candidate, York University)

Talk Title: Power of the Drum: Aboriginal Music and Healing in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Downtown Eastside
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Time: 4PM - 6PM
Location: 701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusicology), Columbia University, 116th and Broadway, NY NY

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present "A Conversation With Jonathan Sterne" on Thursday, March 22, 2007, in the Center for Ethnomusicology (701C Dodge Hall), from 12-2 PM.

Jonathan Sterne is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (Canada), and the author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. (Duke 2003), among many other important writings. Prof. Sterne will be speaking at the "Technologies of the Diva" conference on Saturday, March 24, in a public lecture. Click here for more information about that conference.

 

This event is a limited-attendance seminar. It is open to graduate students and faculty in the Department of Music and other Departments at Columbia and in the Consortium, by RSVP only to Aaron Fox at aaf19@columbia.edu. Please RSVP as soon as possible. Space is limited.

Prof. Sterne's online CV may be downloaded from the link below this entry. Or learn much more about his work by visiting his website, Sterneworks.org

 

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

Technologies of the Diva: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference on Opera

Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th March 2007
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 116th and 118th Streets)
New York City
Click here for conference website

(co-sponsored by the Center for Ethnomusicology)

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce a public colloquium by Deborah Wong, Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of California at Riverside and President-Elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Title: "Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More."
Date and Time: Thursday March 29, 4-6 PM
Location: 701C Dodge Hall
(Center for Ethno, click here for directions)

Space is limited and RSVP is requested to aaf19@columbia.edu

About Prof. Deborah Wong: Deborah Wong is Professor of Music at the University of California at Riverside, and President Elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has published two books, Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Ritual (Chicago University Press, 2001), and Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music (Routledge, 2004). She performs with Satori Daiko, a taiko ensemble in Los Angeles, and this presentation is from her book in progress, Big Beats: Taiko in Southern California.

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.