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

Sponsored by the Department of Music
Please note the 5PM start time is one hour later than many of our previous events.

Josh Pilzer is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawa'ii and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on Korean and Japanese folk and popular singing and the experience, memory, and memorialization of traumatic events in East Asian modernity. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation, about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology?s Charles Seeger Prize in 2001; his articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2006), and elsewhere.