Prof. Siv B. Lie - “Music that Tears You Apart: Jazz Manouche and the Qualia of Ethnorace” (FRIDAY FEB 15 @ 4PM)

Event Start:

Fri, 02/15/2019 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Location:

701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusicology)

The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University presents a colloquium talk by:

Prof. Siv B. Lie
(Univ. of Maryland at College Park)

“Music that Tears You Apart: Jazz Manouche and the Qualia of Ethnorace”

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DATE AND TIME: Friday, Feb,. 15, 2019, 4PM

LOCATION: 701C Dodge Hall, Columbia Morningside Campus @ 116th St.
Free and Open to the Public!
Contact aaf19@columbia.edu for accommodations or further information.

Abstract: Jazz manouche is a genre through with notions of Manouche (French Romani/“Gypsy”) ethnoracial identities are performed and articulated. Drawing on ethnographic research in the French jazz manouche scene, this presentation takes a semiotic approach to investigate how ethnoracial categories are generated through sonic perception and language about sound. My analysis foregrounds fluidities between expressive practices by exploring how sensory experiences (“qualia”) of power, rawness, and “feeling” are used to correlate particular musical sounds with ethnoracialized bodies. These discourses can serve or compromise Manouche interests as they naturalize ideologies about social difference.

Speaker Bio: Siv B. Lie is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research in ethnomusicology and linguistic anthropology examines relationships between cultural production and minority rights. She focuses on how Romani (“Gypsy”) populations use music and language to serve their own social, political, and economic interests. Her current book project, tentatively titled Django Generations: Constructing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France, argues that music and discourse about music profoundly shape senses of ethnoracial and national belonging among French Manouche populations. Through ethnographic, performance-based, and archival research methods, her work takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the politics of expressive practices and the commodification of culture. Dr. Lie has published in Popular Music and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Jazz and Culture. She is co-founder and Principal Coordinator of the Initiative for Romani Music at New York University, an organization that brings together scholars, artists, and community members to raise awareness about Romani musics and cultures, and is Co-Curator of the Music section of RomArchive, a digital archive of Romani arts set to launch in 2019. Dr. Lie earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Music at New York University and is also a violinist, violist, and vocalist in a variety of genres.

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Prof. Siv B. Lie - “Music that Tears You Apart: Jazz Manouche and the Qualia of Ethnorace” (FRIDAY FEB 15 @ 4PM)

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