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Prof. Barbara Titus - "Sonic Entanglements on Tour: Visiting Colonial Sound Archives in the Early Twenty-First Century"

Event Start: 
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 4:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusioclogy)


The Center for Ethnomusicology invites you to a public talk by:

Barbara Titus  
Associate Professor of Cultural Musicology, the Univ. of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands.

Sonic Entanglements on Tour: Visiting Colonial Sound Archives in the Early Twenty-First Century

Thursday, January 23, 2020
4:00PM-6:00PM 
701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusicology)
Free and Open to All 
Reception to follow

Abstract: In this presentation I report on a sound archive tour through Europe in September 2019 by historians, performance scholars, (ethno)musicologists and anthropologists from Southeast Asia and Europe. During our collective visits of sound archives in Hilversum (Beeld en Geluid), Amsterdam (Jaap Kunst Collectie), Berlin (Phonogrammarchiv, Lautarchiv Humboldt) and Vienna (Phonogrammarchiv), we contemplated and scrutinized 1.) the implications of sound being captured in colonial Southeast Asia and transported to colonial metropoles in Europe, and 2.) the ways in which these objectified sounds and their organization as “collections” provide as well as deny affordances to listeners, musicians and scholars in cultural, musical and scholarly constellations today.

I present our contemplations in dialogue with recent attempts to excavate decolonial and anti-colonial agency from colonial archives (Moreno 2016, Edwards 2016, Steingo & Sykes 2019) and to reanimate the captured voices that have been sonically embalmed for so many decades (Schmelzer 2016, Goh 2017, Mundy 2019). Following this presentation I would like to invite discussion about the implications of me being the individual narrator of this story about our collective tour.

More information about the tour and the participants:
https://sonic-entanglements.com/news/

Speaker Bio: 
Barbara Titus is an Associate Professor of Cultural Musicology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands. She studied musicology at Utrecht University and gained her doctorate from the University of Oxford. Trained as a music historian of German musical aesthetics, she shifted her attention to South African street music (maskanda), with the explicit aim to question the polarity that these two fields of investigation still seem to represent. She taught as a visiting professor at the University of KwaZulu- Natal in Durban, South Africa, the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany, and was a researcher-in-residence at the University of Vienna in Austria as a Balzan Visiting Scholar.

Barbara has published in journals such as Acta Musicologica, Ethnomusicology, SAMUS: South African Music Studies and the Dutch Journal of Music Theory. Barbara is a Fellow at the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) Community and the Co-Editor of the journal the world of music (new series). Her book about the epistemic and epistemological dimensions of South African maskanda music is currently under review. She also curates the Jaap Kunst Collection at the UvA, encompassing sound and visual recordings, photographs, correspondence and teaching material of many musics of the world from the 1920s up to the early 2000s. 

Dr. Luis-Manuel Garcia: "The Call as Sonic Act: Engagement, Interpellation, Ethics" (Tuesday Nov. 5, 4PM)

Event Start: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 - 4:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusioclogy)


The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present a public talk by:

Dr. Luis-Manuel Garcia

(Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham, Room 4 Resistance)

"The Call as Sonic Act: Engagement, Interpellation, Ethic."

Tuesday November 5, 2019
4:00PM to 6:00PM
701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusicology)

Columbia University Morningside Campus (116th and Broadway)
Reception to Follow

As with all Center events:
Free and Open to All People, Children and Caregivers Welcome

For special accommodations or further information contact: 
aaf19@columbia.edu


Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2405876102857144/

 

Speaker Biography:

Luis-Manuel Garcia is a Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is also a member and resident DJ of Room 4 Resistance, a Berlin-based queer intersectional rave collective. His research focuses on urban electronic dance music scenes, with a focus on affect, intimacy, sexuality, creative industries and musical migration. He is currently researching ‘techno-tourism’ and musical mobility in Berlin while completing a monograph entitled, Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor.


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Selected Publications of Dr. Garcia:

Garcia, L-M 2018, Whose refuge, this house? the estrangement of queers of color in electronic dance music. in FE Maus & S Whiteley (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793525.013.49

Garcia, L-M 2016, 'Beats, Flesh, and Grain', Sound Studies, vol. 1, pp. 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2015.1079072

Garcia, L-M 2016, 'Techno-Tourism and Postindustrial Neo-Romanticism in Berlin's Electronic Dance Music Scenes', Tourist Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 276-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797615618037

Garcia, L-M 2018, ‘With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess, and Good Music’: Sex, Affect, and Techno at Snax Club in Berlin. in N Gregor & T Irvine (eds), Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor. Berghahn Books Inc., New York, pp. 73-96.

Garcia, L-M 2018, 'Agonistic festivities: urban nightlife scenes and the sociability of ‘anti-social’ fun', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 462-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2017.1398097

Andrew Jones - "The Far East Sound in Jamaica" (Sept. 19, 7:30PM)

Event Start: 
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 7:30pm
Location: 
622 DODGE HALL (note, not in 701C)


The Program in Chinese Literature and Culture and the Center for Ethnomusicology Jointly Present:

The 'Far East Sound' In Jamaica

Andrew F. Jones

Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of California at Berkeley

Thursday, September 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m. 

Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

Room 622 

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This lecture by Andrew Jones revolves around a cohort of Hakka Chinese entrepreneurs, record producers, and studio musicians who played an outsized role in shaping Jamaica's most important cultural export, reggae music. Chinese-Jamaican producers like Clive Chin and Herman Chin-Loy not only recorded and marketed some of the first examples of the vastly influential and innovative genre of studio remixes known as dub music, but also contributed to the rise of a new and historically plangent subgenre in reggae called the "far east sound." This presentation will explore how "China" sounded in the seemingly unlikely setting of a newly independent Afro-Caribbean island nation, and what this genre of music might tell us about imperial history, migrations of labor and capital, music technology, and the sonic shaping of a postcolonial “home.”

Andrew F. Jones is Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California at Berkeley and teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture. He is the author of three books on music: Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music, Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age, and the forthcoming Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. He has also written Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture, and translated literary works by Yu Hua and Eileen Chang. 

 

 

Co-sponsored by Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

 

 

Indigenous Hip Hop Artists & Activists Dioganhdih and Chhoti Maa at the Center, Friday Sept. 6, 4-6PM

Event Start: 
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusioclogy)

The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is proud to present our first public event of the 2019-20 academic year!

A public conversation and informal performance with Indigenous Hip Hop artists, producers, and cultural activists:

Dioganhdih & Chhoti Maa

Friday, September 6, 2019
4:00PM to 6:00PM (reception to follow)
701C Dodge Hall, on the Columbia University Morningside Campus
(@ Broadway and 116th St.)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -- SPACE IS LIMITED, COME ON TIME

To reserve space or request special accommodations, or for more information, please write to aaf19@columbia.edu

Artist Biographies:
DIOGANHDIH
ARTIST STATEMENT 
Dioganhdih is a queer indigenous hip-hop artist and producer making waves in space where cis+heteronormative culture often remains unchallenged. Shouldering the strength and resilience of their Kanien'kehá:ka and Tsa’la’gi lineage, Dio’s vocal and hip-hop performance is a poetic and lyrical affront to colonialism. Dio’s vision is reflective of their Haudenosaunee ancestors inherent honoring of the Earth and commitment to intertribal relations, civic art and cultural engagement.

Dio Ganhdih (Akwesasne-Mohawk) was born on the Onondaga Nation territory in so-called upstate “New York.” Their introduction to music was through traditional Haudenosaunee ceremony and giving thanks. From early, Dio was surrounded by the celebration of Haudenosaunee culture, laying tempo and lending rhythm to the cultivation of their musical career. 

Dio took their attention for music and love for poetry in hip-hop and started rapping, freestyling, composing and producing music. Dio found mentors and producers in the hip-hop community who were rooted in the culture of radical Black, Afro-Indigenous resistance. 
Rap and lyricism have become a medium for Dio to create larger conversations within indigenous communities about sexuality, gender identity, re-indigenizing and exploring an urban native lifestyle while preserving traditional indigenous culture.

PRESENT
Dio has performed at Stanford, Duke, Yale, Brown University, Oceti Sakowin Standing Rock, SolCollective in Sacramento, Club Gretchen in Berlin, Asinabka Film & Media Festival in Ottawa, House of Vans in Brooklyn, the SoundCloud Summer Party in Berlin, The Chapel in San Francisco, The Art House in New Orleans, and countless dj booths, stoops, bodegas, rooftops and park benches

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CHHOTI MAA
Chhoti Maa is a multidisciplinary cultural producer & organizer with 12 years of experience.
Chhoti Maa was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. She is based in Oakland, California.
Chhoti Maa is a multidisciplinary cultural producer, working through art, music, writing, red medicine and danza.

Chhoti has self-released 6 projects (2 lps, 4 eps) in her eleven years as an MC / singer / producer. Her sound work is rooted in hip hop, migrantsoul, neufolk, Mexican oral tradition, specifically her Grandma's storytelling magic.

Chhoti Maa has performed, collaborated and taught children, teens and adults in festivals, conferences, house shows, community spaces, museums, theaters, galleries, schools, universities and in the streets of Puerto Rico, China, Cuba, Spain, Qatar, U.A.E., Ghana, Peru, Mexico, Sweden, Canada, the US and multiple Indigenous Nations.

Chhoti’s work deals with decolonial living, intersectional solidarity, contemporary Indigenous spirituality, queerness, migrant empowerment and the reconstruction of the womxn temple. 
 
Chhoti Maa has received the following awards and grants to support her work as a musician and as a music event curator.
• 2019 - Atiza music video selected for 22nd Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, Austin, TX
• 2018 - Selected Artist for Joyful Noise’s White Label Series, Bloomington, IN
• 2018 - 4th Place in 14th Annual QWOC Film Festival, QWOCMAP, San Francisco, CA
• 2017 - Women's Audio Mission Artist Residency, WAM, San Francisco, CA
• 2017 - Beloved Community Fund, Akonadi Foundation, Oakland, CA
• 2012 - MusixMatch Award, "Los Hijos del Sonido Volador", Music Hack Day, Sonar 19' Festival Internacional de Música Avanzada y New Media Art, Barcelona, España

Access to music on various platforms: https://song.link/chhotimaa
Social Media: Chhoti Maa on youtube, instagram, facebook, twitter, bandsintown, songkick & official website.


Congratulations to Dr. Beatriz Goubert!

Congratulations to our newest alumna, Dr. Beatriz M. Goubert! Dr. Goubert successfully defended her Columbia University PhD dissertation in Ethnomusicology, “Nymsuque: Contemporary Muisca Indigenous Sounds in the Colombian Andes” on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The dissertation was sponsored by Prof. Ana Ochoa, and the committee included Profs. Kevin Fellezs and Aaron Fox (pictured here with Dr. Goubert), joined by our NYU colleague Prof. David Samuels and our Oklahoma U colleague (and distinguished alumna!) Prof. Amanda Minks.

Congratulations Doctor Goubert!

Jessie Rubin (BC Ethnomusicology '19) Wins Ethel Stone Lefrak Prize in the Arts from Barnard College

Jessie Rubin BC '19The Columbia Ethnomusicology community is delighted to congratulate Jessie Rubin, Barnard College class of 2019 and Ethnomusicology track major, who has been awarded the Ethel Stone Lefrak Prize for excellence in the arts by Barnard College.  Jessie has just completed her senior project thesis, entitled "Vocality in Exile: The Indigenization of Scottish Bagpipes in a Palestinian Refugee Community," under the supervision of Prof. Fox.  She is also the second Barnard Ethnomusicology track major to win the Ethel Stone Lefrak Prize in the last two years!

Congratulations Jessie!

Andrés García Molina Wins SEM-Niagra T. Temple Tuttle Prize

Andrés García Molina

The Columbia Ethnomusicology community warmly congratulates PhD candidate Andrés García Molina, whose paper entitled “The Mutual Circulation of Sound and Goods in Havana: On Sound, Circulation, and Architecture,” has been awarded the T. Temple Tuttle Prize for Best Student Paper at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Niagra Chapter.  


Congratulations Andrés!

Katie Radishofski Wins Kluge Graduate Fellowship!

Katie Radishofski
The Columbia University Ethnomusicology community warmly congratulates PhD candidate Katie Radishofski, who has been awarded a Kluge Graduate Fellowship, in the Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program (CUSP),  for the 2019-2020 academic year.  Katie will also  serve as a Kluge Summer Mentor for Summer 2019. 

Katie is completing a dissertation entitled "The Game Ain’t the Same”: Hip-Hop, Cultural Memory, and Neoliberal Urbanism in New York City" under the sponsorship of Prof. Kevin Fellezs. 

Congratulations Katie! 



Mary Catherine Stoumbos Selected as 2019-20 Lead Teaching Fellow at CTL

Mary Catherine StoumbosThe Ethnomusicology community at Columbia congratulates PhD student Mary Catherine Stoumbos, who was selected as a "Lead Teaching Fellow" for the Department of Music by Columbia'sCenter for Teaching and Learning. The Lead Teaching Fellow program is a professional development opportunity for doctoral students who are committed to promoting pedagogical practices and conversations among graduate students. LTFs participate in a series of meetings at the CTL, organize teaching-related workshops in their home departments, and act as liaisons between their peers and the CTL. 

Congratulations Mary!

Department of Music -- Senior Project Symposium (Friday May 3, 1PM-4PM)

The Department of Music and the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University are please to present the

2019 Senior Project Symposium

FRIDAY MAY 3, 2019
1PM-4PM
701C DODGE HALL
All are welcome!

Please join us in 701C Dodge Hall, the Center for Ethnomusicology, on Friday, May 3, 2019, from 1PM-4PM for our annual Undergraduate Senior Project Symposium, featuring presentations by five graduating seniors (Katie Cooke, Jessica Edgar, Brent Morden, Fabiola Ines Plaza and Jessie Rubin, from the Dept. of Music, and Andrea Floersheimer, from the Dept. of History)  who have completed senior projects with Music Department faculty advisers this spring.  Join us in proudly celebrating these fantastic projects! Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome.  The schedule of presentations is below. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A, with brief breaks between presentations. 

Schedule of Presentations:

1:00PM Brent Morden (Columbia College Music Major): "Modeling Artistic Collaboration Across Time and Space."

1:30PM Jessica Edgar (Columbia College Music Major): "Restraint, Women, and the British Choral Tradition."

2:00PM Katie Cooke (Columbia College Music Major): "The Ministry of Love: An Exploration of Turkish Contemporary Christian Music."

2:30PM Jessie Rubin (Barnard College Music Major): "Vocality in Exile: The Indigenization of Scottish Bagpipes in a Palestinian Refugee Community."

3:00PM Fabiola Ines Plaza (Columbia College Music Major): "Nationalism in Venezuelan Classical Music: Connecting the Musical Revolution of the 20th Century to Today."

3:30PM Andrea Floersheimer (Columbia College History Major): "Kitchen Courthouses and Flying Judges: Bush Justice in Alaska, 1959-80."

Dr. César Colón-Montijo Awarded Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Dr. Cesar Colon-Montijo
The Columbia University Ethnomusicology community is delighted to congratulate our recent PhD alumnus, and current Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Music, Dr. César Cólon-Montijo, who has been named to the first cohort of Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows at Princeton University. 

Congratulations César!

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Dr. Cólon-Montijo received his PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2018 from the Department of Music and currently serves as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department. His dissertation, entitled  Specters of Maelo: An Ethnographic Biography of Ismael ‘Maelo’ Rivera, was advised by Profs. Ochoa and Washburne.  Dr. Colón-Montijo will join the Princeton University Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Colón-Montijo holds a master’s degree in anthropology and audiovisual communication from the University of Barcelona and a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Puerto Rico, in addition to his PhD from Columbia. His research spans Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latinx media and cultural studies, and is focused on the production and reception of popular song, music, print and non-print texts and their role in shaping communities and social movements. In addition to his scholarly work, Colón-Montijo is a journalist and documentary filmmaker with experience in radio and television. Colón-Montijo will be advised by Pedro Meira Monteiro, the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

PhD Student Kyle DeCoste Wins Best Student Paper Prize at 2019 IASPM-US!


Kyle DeCosteCongratulations to Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD student student Kyle DeCoste! Kyle was awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper at the 2019 International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch (IASPM-US) annual meeting for his paper, “Music All Up and Down the Street: Listening to Childhood in James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man.” In the paper, DeCoste uses Baldwin’s “children’s book for adults” as way to re-think conceptions of childhood innocence and the role of music in mediating the realities of black children's lives in Harlem.

"EMPACY" -- A Hip Hop Theater Event (2 Staged Readings, Fri 4/26 and Sat 4/27)

Event Start: 
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 4:00am - Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 6:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusioclogy)
The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is pleased to present TWO staged readings of a new improvisational hip hop theatrical production:

EMPACY

A staged reading of a new play by Adi Eshman and David Bell as Dramaturg
Directed by: Max Friedman
Produced by: Ray Morency
Featuring: Kristin Kirkley, Candace Maxwell, and Chris Lysik

Julian, Ezra, Kay, & Shaina are four friends at a dinner party, sharing stories, and toasting to their friendship. Until someone conducts an experiment.

An OFF TOP commission that blends science, hip hop, and politics.
TWO READINGS: FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019, 8PM-10PM AND
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019, 4PM-6PM BOTH in 701C Dodge Hall, The Center for Ethnomusicology Columbia University Morningside (Main) Campus, Broadway and 116th St. Free and open to the public, but a $5 donation is requested to support the project if you are able, and space may be limited. Please confirm attendance on Facebook if possible at: https://www.facebook.com/events/274548493496635/?event_time_id=274548496829968








PhD Student Andrés García Molina Wins Research Grant from Florida International University

Congratulations to Columbia Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Andrés García Molina, who has been awarded a $2,000 travel grant to visit the Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection at Florida International University, where he will also be giving a lecture about his research.
Andres Garcia Molina

Women CLAP BACK: Music and the Arts (Tues April 16, 6:15PM)

Event Start: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 6:15pm - 9:15pm
Location: 
Lifetime Screening Room 511 Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway New York City, NY 10027
Women CLAP BACK: Music and the Arts 
is a series of programmed events featuring woman-identified speakers working on the fringes of music and the arts that speak about their interventions in the white and patriarchal dynamics of their fields. The goal of CLAP BACK is to foster cross-disciplinary conversation among musicians, composers, multimedia artists, playwrights, bloggers, academics, and activists. The inaugural CLAP BACK premiered at The New School / Eugene Lang College in April 2016.

This second event will feature film director and visual artist James Spooner, who directed 2003's Afropunk: The Rock n' Roll Experience, a groundbreaking independent film that sparked a global movement. Centered on the experiences of black rock, punk and hardcore musicians in New York City, it spearheaded a nationwide conversation on black artists within the DIY (Do-it-Yourself) underground music scenes. Most importantly, it highlighted the experiences of black women who successfully navigated their gender and ethnocultural status while actively participating within these white-centric and male-dominated genres and cultures that have historically been resistant to marginalized communities.

At this event, we will screen portions of the 70-minute documentary and Spooner will give a presentation on the making of the documentary, as well as discuss the cultural shift that has happened in the 15+ years since the initial release. A panel discussion about the NYC's contemporary metal, punk and hardcore scenes and a reception will follow. Stay tuned for more information!


Date & Time
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
6:15 PM – 9:15 PM EDT
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