SYMPOSIUM: Pacific Roots Music, Pacific Routes Music: Tracking Marshallese & Hawaiian Music Across the Pacific - Friday Oct. 12,

In Conjunction with the 2012 "Native Sounds North and South" Concert Series presentation of Hawai'ian Guitar Virtuoso Cyril Pahinui on Oct. 13, 2012, The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University Presents a Symposium on Friday Oct. 12, 2012:

Pacific Roots Music, Pacific Routes Music: Tracking Marshallese and Hawaiian Music Across the Pacific

Friday October 12, 4-6PM
701C Dodge Hall (Center for Ethnomusicology)
Free and Open to the Public

Prof. Kevin Fellezs
“Listen But Don’t Ask Question”: Ki ho’alu and Listening for the Sounds of Hawaiian-ness Kevin Fellezs is Assistant Professor of Music and African-American Studies at Columbia University.

Jessica Schwartz, PhD
"Home Sweet Home": Marshallese Musical Reflections on Religion, Human Rights,&Diplomacy in "Free   Association" Diaspora
Jessica Schwartz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Music at Columbia University.

Discussant: Prof. J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Wesleyan University
J. Kehaulani Kauanui is Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Wesleyan University.

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