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"How Musical Is Guitar Hero" -- Kiri Miller

October 19, 2009 by jmukai

Event Start: 
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 5:30pm
Location: 
The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall

Tuesday, March 30 5:30pm in 701C, Center for Ethnomusicology
Kiri Miller

"How Musical is Guitar Hero?"
Abstract:
How are games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band shaping players' concepts of musicality, creativity, and embodied performance? This talk explores new forms of musicking at the intersection of the "virtual” and the “real,” showing how these games might illuminate the changing nature of amateur musicianship in a technologically mediated world.
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2009 - 2010 Colloquium Series Announcement!

October 19, 2009 by jmukai


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 read more »
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