Regina Bendix: "Verbal Arts and the Senses" (Wed. Oct. 26)

The Fall 2011 Ethnomusicology Colloquium presents:

Verbal Arts and the Senses: A Bricolage of Sources Expressing the Inexpressible
 

By Regina Bendix
Professor of European Ethnology,  the University of Göttingen, Germany

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
4:00pm
701C Dodge Hall (Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University)

The working of the senses in tandem with cognition facilitates the experience of pleasure and pain, fear and elation - but to what extent can (or should) this realm, situated between individual experience and social coding, be accessible to cultural research?

Free and open to the public.