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News of the Center
Morgan Luker is now officially an Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) in the Music Department at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. We wish him all the best and celebrate along with him. Congratulations Morgan!!!
Congratulations to
Tyler Bickford, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia, who has just been awarded two prestigious prizes for recent conference papers:
1)
The 2009 Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society
for Ethnomusicology, recognizing the most distinguished student paper
in the ethnomusicology of popular music presented at the SEM annual
meeting in Wesleyan, CT, October 2008, for his paper entitled: "Media
Consumption as Social Organization at a New England Primary School."
and2)
The 2009 Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the
Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) for the best student paper
presented at the Middle Atlantic SEM Chapter meeting in New York, March
2008, entitled: "The Social Economy of Headphone Use in a New England
Primary School."
Learn more about Tyler Bickford's work at his
personal website.
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The Center for Ethnomusicology holds copies of, and rights to, the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional Music, consisting of field recordings of folk and traditional musics made around the world by collector Laura Boulton, from the 1930s through the 1960s. In 1933 and again in 1940, Boulton recorded a total of 129 Hopi songs, ranging from secular to spiritual genres. (The 1933 recordings were made at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition; the 1940 recordings at Hopi.)
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The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is proud to announce this year's colloquium series!Monday, November 10 at 4pm in 701C, Center for Ethnomusicology
Sonia Seeman
Metaphoricity, Iconicity and Mimesis: Towards a Musical Semantics of Social Identity in Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) Music
Abstract:
One primary concern of musicology and ethnomusicology has been refining
theoretical tools for analyzing the role of musical practices in
constructing, maintaining and challenging social identity. This paper
investigates the process by which social meanings are ascribed to sound
through the example of a Turkish genre, Roman (“Gypsy”) dance tune (Roman
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Congratulations to Anna Stirr, who successfully defended her dissertation on Nepali dohori music on September 10. Dr. Stirr is now headed for Oxford University, where she will hold a postdoctoral fellowship at St. John's College.
Congratulations to Faculty -
Prof. Ellen Gray, who has accepted a one-year fellowship for 2009-10 at the Rutgers' Center for Historical Analysis and to
Prof. Christopher Washburne, who has been promoted to tenured Associate Professor of Music!
Hearty congratulations are in order for a number of Columbia Ethnomusicology students:
First, three students are now alumni! We congratulate Andrew Eisenberg, Morgan Luker, and Ryan Skinner, each of whom has successfully defended his dissertation.
We also congratulate Tyler Bickford, winner of a Columbia University Whiting Fellowship.
Congratulations to Farzaneh Hemmasi, who has won a dissertation fellowship for 2009-10 from the Middle East Institute.
Congratulations to Sara Snyder, who has won a summer research fellowship from the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
Collection of be-bop, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, rap, reggae, rock, zydeco
and other forms to be made available for research and education
NEW YORK, April 7, 2009 — Columbia University has joined in a cooperative agreement with the ARChive of Contemporary Music, the largest collection of popular music in the world, to integrate the resources of the archive into arts programming at the university and other educational and scholarly activities.
The partnership is between the archive, Columbia University Libraries and the Arts Initiative at Columbia. Holdings of the archive include the Keith Richards Blues Collection, endowed by Richards, and the 50,000 disc World Music collection. read more »
CENTER FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY REPORT, FALL 2008
Prepared by : Ana María Ochoa
I. Fall 2008
1. Events
During the past semester the Center for Ethnomusicology organized a series of events, some in association with other Centers or Associations in the university. These included:
- Chris Waterman, Dean , School of the Arts, UCLA (Center for Ethnomusicology Colloquium).
- Denilson Lopes, Communication Studies, UFRJ, Brasil (Center for Ethnomusicology and CSER)
- The New Evidence 1400-1800 Series and the Center for Ethnomusicology Colloquium co-organized talks by Jaime Lara (Chair of the program of Religion and the Arts at Yale Divinity Schoool) and José Pardo Tomás (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain). Special thanks to Giuseppe Gerbino and Susan Boynton for the co-organiztion of these talks.
- Samuel Araujo, Vincenzo Cambria, Sinesio Jeferson Andrade Silva (Laboratorio de Etnomusicologia,UFRJ) presented at our new lunch-dialogues series.
- A Master Class with Charles Marshall, Satsuma Biwa Performer, in association with the institute for Medieval Japanese Studies.
- We also co-sponsored the Fifth Annual Guria Benefit which is hosted annually by Dimensions, the Barnard South Asian Students Association.
The following ensembles were active during the semester in conjunction with the MPP Program:
The Gagaku Ensemble, in association with the Japanese Program.
The Bluegrass Ensemble, Lion in the Grass.
The Brazilian Music Ensemble.
Special thanks to David Novak, Miho Walsh, Louise and Noriyuko Sasaki, Toby King, Adriano Santos and Ole Mathisen for all the work in the ensembles.
Besides this the Center for Ethnomusicology organized a video editing workshop and a grant writing workshop, both taught by Anna Stirr. Other workshops will continue in the Spring.
2. Congratulations, celebrations
Congratulations to Professor Chris Washburne for the publication of his book, Sounding Salsa with Temple University Press.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Keenan and Maurea Landies who received their Ph Ds this Fall.
Congratulations to Matt Sakakeeny who won the Charles Seeger Prize for the most distinguished student paper presented at SEM and Elizabeth Keenan for winning the Wong Tolbert Award for best student paper on the topic of women.
Congratulations to Ryan Skinner for publishing his first his first children's book: Sidikiba's Kora Lesson.
A warm welcome to Julian Albert Luker, son of Morgan Luker and Ruth Wikler-Luker who was born on December 3 at 1.13 am at Meriter hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. read more »
We offer our congratulations to Dr. Maurea Landies, who successfully defended her doctoral disseratation on Haitian/Dominican Gaga/Rara music on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Her dissertation was sponsored by Prof. Chris Washburne.
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest newsletter from
the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. The
newsletter can be viewed online at our new website at:
http://ilas.columbia.edu/resourcespublications/reports_and_newslettersThis edition features research pieces from Professor Regina Cortina of
Teachers College, PhD candidate Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva, as well
as news and updates from ILAS faculty throughout Columbia University.
Cheers,
Institute of Latin American Studies
Congratulations to Matt Sakakeeny who won the Charles Seeger Prize for the most distinguished student paper presented at SEM and Elizabeth Keenan for winning the Wong Tolbert Award for best student paper on the topic of women.
We offer warm congratulations to Elizabeth Keenan, who defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Acting Like a Lady: Third Wave Feminism, Popular Music, and the White Middle Class, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008.
Congratulations to Ethnomusicology PhD student Morgan Luker, who has accepted a position as a lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Morgan will be teaching two undergraduate ethnomusicology courses and the graduate proseminar in ethnomusicology.
Congratulations to Ethnomusicology PhD student Brian Karl who has accepted a position as a lecturer in Anthropology at Colby College.
Congratulations to Ethnomusicology PhD student Andy Eisenberg, who has accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University.
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This ethnographic journey into the New York Salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider, and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commericial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged "the people" over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances.
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