The 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!
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!
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!
The Department of Music and the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University are please to present the2019 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."
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.