Simha Arom--"The forest for the trees": The metric & rhythmic foundations of African music NOTE CHANGE TO 301 Philosophy!!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4PM

NOTE : THE VENUE FOR THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO 301 PHILOSOPHY HALL AND RSVP IS NO LONGER REQUIRED

The Center for Ethonmusicology at Columbia University is excited to host Sima Arom, Director Emeritus of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. We are grateful for the support of the Reiner Center for Contemporary Music for this event.

All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public.

Directions: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/philosophy.html

About Simha Arom:

Professor Arom is most widely known for a prize-winning series of recordings of the musics of the Aka and other Central African groups made in the 1960s to the 1980s, which have exerted a lasting influence on musicians as diverse and prominent as Madonna, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and contemporary composers Gyorgy Ligeti and Steve Reich. Mr. Arom’s landmark book African Polyphony and Polyrhythm, published in French (1986) and English (1991), is an undisputed classic in the field of musical ethnography, and was awarded the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in 1992. Arom received the Silver Medal of the C.N.R.S. in 1984 for his development of methods of analysis of traditional, unwritten polyphonic music.With his book, and in general as a researcher, thinker and writer about music, Mr. Arom’s work has influenced generations of ethnomusicologists, composers, and musicians.

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this event from the Reiner Center for Contemporary Music