Sponsored by the Department of Music
Please note the 5PM start time is one hour later than many of our previous events.

Josh Pilzer is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawa'ii and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on Korean and Japanese folk and popular singing and the experience, memory, and memorialization of traumatic events in East Asian modernity. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation, about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology?s Charles Seeger Prize in 2001; his articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2006), and elsewhere.

Ethnomusicologist Sarah Weiss (Yale University) will be speaking in the Center on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 4PM. The title of her talk is: "Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception."  A reception will follow the talk.  The event is free and open to the public. 

Sarah Weiss has addressed issues of gender, aesthetics, postcoloniality, and hybridity in both her writing and teaching. Her book, Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java was published in 2006 by KITLV Press in Leiden. Weiss is currently working on a comparative project exploring women and performance across several of the world’s major religions. She holds the PhD in Musicology from New York University.

Thursday, March 27 at 4PM, 701C Dodge Hall

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST RSVP TO aaf19@columbia.edu to attend this event.  A paper by Prof. Shelemay is being distributed to those who RSVP and will be discussed at the event.   read more »

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4PM 

NOTE : THE VENUE FOR THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO 301 PHILOSOPHY HALL AND RSVP IS NO LONGER REQUIRED 

The Center for Ethonmusicology at Columbia University is excited to host Sima Arom, Director Emeritus of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.  We are grateful for the support of the Reiner Center for Contemporary Music for this event.

All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public. 

Directions:  http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/philosophy.html 

 

About Simha Arom:

 

Professor Arom is most widely known for a prize-winning series of recordings of the musics of the Aka  and other Central African groups made in the 1960s to the 1980s, which have exerted a lasting influence on musicians as diverse and prominent as Madonna, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and contemporary composers Gyorgy Ligeti and Steve Reich. Mr. Arom’s landmark book African Polyphony and Polyrhythm, published in French (1986) and English (1991), is an undisputed classic in the field of musical ethnography, and was awarded the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in 1992. Arom received the Silver Medal of the C.N.R.S. in 1984 for his development of methods of analysis of traditional, unwritten polyphonic music.With his book, and in general as a researcher, thinker and writer about music, Mr. Arom’s work has influenced generations of ethnomusicologists, composers, and musicians.

 

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this event from the Reiner Center for Contemporary Music

Dr. Chie Sakakibara and Aaron Fox will report back on their November research trip to Barrow, AK.

Join us on Sunday, December 2d from 6 to 8 PM for an evening of fun and lively music with the Columbia Klezmer Band and Columbia's own "Lion in the Grass" Bluegrass ensemble! Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

Come to the Winter 2007 performance of the New York Gagaku Ensemble.

Gagaku is a form of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court for centuries.

Presented by The Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, the Columbia Music Performance Program, and the Center for Ethnomusicology.

This event is open to the public and free of charge.

John Thompson, Gu Qin with Festivitas Artium Schola

Special performance by Zhang Hong Yan, Pipa

Made possible through a generous gift from David and Susie Sainsbury
Sponsored by Sounds of China and the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural Initiative, and the New York Bandura Ensemble present a first-time-ever series of folk music and dance encounters between the Ukrainian communities of western Canada and the eastern United States. At the invitation of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, its Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural Initiative, and the New York Bandura Ensemble, Ukrainian-Canadian dancer/folk dance scholar Andriy Nahachewsky and tsymbalist/prairie music scholar Brian Cherwick join New York Ukrainian artists and audiences for four October programs showcasing and exploring the music and dance traditions of the Ukrainian settlers of western Canada.   read more »

In Her Voice, In Her Words: A Testimony and Discussion with Lee Mak-dal, Survivor of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery

5-6:30 pm, Wednesday, October 17th 918 IAB (International Affairs Building)  read more »

Among Aboriginal musicians from remote Central Australian desert communities, performances in white-dominated towns are commonly portrayed as desirable occasions for engaging with a white-dominated socio-musical realm. This seminar explores how such racially informed cross-cultural notions are put to work in the accumulation of Aboriginal male and musician status. I then describe how Aboriginal town gigs are in fact organised, carried out and evaluated by various Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal stakeholders. I suggest that instead of producing congenial cross-cultural exchanges, most Aboriginal town gigs are particularly powerful and passionate mono-cultural happenings for the reproduction of real and imagined division of “blackfella” and “whitefella” domains, with distinct forms of sociability.  read more »

Fabian Holt (b. 1972) is Associate Professor of Music and Performance at the University of Roskilde in Denmark. He studied at the University of Copenhagen (Ph.D. 2002) and has taught at the Universities of Copenhagen and Chicago. His teaching repertory includes courses on jazz and American popular musics, world music, concert culture, performance theory, and ethnomusicological theory. Recent publications include the monograph Genre in Popular Music (University of Chicago Press), “Kreuzberg Activists” in Popular Music and Society (2007), and “A View From Popular Music Studies” in The New (Ethno)musicologies (in press).  read more »