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10 / 9 "The Ghost World of Bollywood" --A Talk by David Novak Start: 12:15 pm End: 2:15 pm On Thursday, Oct. 9, at 12:15 PM, David Novak will give a talk entitled "The Ghost World of Bollywood" in the Heyman Center Common Room (East Campus). David Novak is a Fellow of the Columbia Society for Fellows in the Humanities, and holds the PhD in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. more info “Oyinbo, I go chop your dollar” -- A Talk By Christopher Waterman Start: 5:00 pm End: 7:00 pm “Oyinbo, I go chop your dollar”: Yahoo Boyz, dirty money, and 419 politics in Nigerian popular music A talk by Christopher Waterman Dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA Thursday, October 9 5:00 PM 701C Dodge Hall In Africa as elsewhere, popular music has long been complexly articulated with the struggle to create, texture and defend viable life-spaces under challenging economic circumstances. This talk is a reflection on recent developments in Nigerian popular music, focusing on songs dealing with the 419/internet scammer controversy ("Yahoozee," by Olu Maintain, "No More Yahoozee [The Reply]," by Harri Best Moradiyo, and "Oyinbo, I Go Chop Your Dollar," by Nkem Owoh), and on musicians' reactions to the Central Bank of Nigeria's recent attempt to outlaw the "spraying" of cash at ceremonies. more info
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10 / 17 The 5th Annual Guria Benefit Start: 8:00 pm End: 10:00 pm Dimensions, Columbia University's Center for Ethnomusicology & Barnard College's Center for Research on Women Present The 5th Annual Guria Benefit Friday October 17th, 2008 8pm \| Roone Alredge Auditorium Lerner Hall, Columbia University An evening of classical South Asian music and dance. Dinner will be served more info
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10 / 29 Social Conflict & the Political Dimensions of Sound Praxis--Perspectives from a Participatory Research Project in Rio de Janeiro Start: 12:00 pm End: 2:00 pm The presentation will address social conflict from the perspectives opened by ongoing research projects being carried out in marginalized areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro. more info "You Can't Listen Alone": On The Sociality of Listening in a Vernacular South African Jazz World Start: 7:30 pm End: 9:30 pm The Center for Jazz Studies invites you to join us for the inaugural lecture of the fall 2008 semester of our Louis Armstrong Visiting Professorship program "You Can't Listen Alone": On The Sociality of Listening in a Vernacular South African Jazz World featuring Brett Pyper University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Introduced by Gwen Ansell the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at the Center for Jazz Studies, Fall 2008 Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7:30 pm 301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus more info
10 / 30 New Evidence, 1400-1800 by Jaime Lara and José Pardo Tomás Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:00 pm The Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology invites you to attend an event in the series "New Evidence, 1400-1800" (co-organized by Columbia's Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Bard Graduate Center). Thursday, Oct. 30, 6-8PM, IAB Room 802 Jaime Lara (Yale University): "Aztec Christians: Reluctant Collaborators or Enthusiastic Partners?" José Pardo Tomás (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain): "Medical Knowledge and Practices in a Creole Society: Texts, Objects and Images from New Spain 1576-1626" Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese; the Department of Religion; the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; the Institute for Latin American Studies; the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; and by the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. more info
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