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EventOverA Survivors' Music Manifesto: On the Singing of Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women'2008-04-29 17:00 2008-04-29 19:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 701C Dodge Hall Sponsored by the Department of MusicPlease 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. Sarah Weiss: "Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception"2008-04-08 16:00 2008-04-08 18:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 701C Dodge Hall, Columbia University![]() 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. A Conversation with Kay Kaufman Shelemay2008-03-27 16:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 701C Dodge Hall![]() 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 » Simha Arom--"The forest for the trees": The metric & rhythmic foundations of African music NOTE CHANGE TO 301 Philosophy!!2008-04-15 16:00 2008-04-15 18:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 301 Philosophy Hall -- NOTE NEW VENUE
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 Brown Bag Discussion: Dr. Chie Sakakibara and Aaron Fox discuss the Barrow Repatriation Project2008-01-24 16:00 2008-01-24 19:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 701C Dodge Hall, Columbia UniversityThe Columbia Klezmer Band performs with Lion In The Grass Bluegrass Band2007-12-02 18:00 2007-12-02 20:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: Philosophy Hall, Columbia UniversityMusic Performance Program Winter Concert Featuring the New York Gagaku Ensemble2007-12-02 20:00 2007-12-02 23:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: Casa Italiana, Teatro, Columbia University; 116th Street & AmsterdamCome 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. Sounds of China Presents: Music From The Time Of Marco Polo2007-12-08 15:30 2007-12-08 19:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
Special performance by Zhang Hong Yan, Pipa
Made possible through a generous gift from David and Susie Sainsbury Ukrainian Wave Festival (multiple events)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-dal2007-10-17 17:00 2007-10-17 18:30 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 918 International Affairs Building (IAB)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 » Dr. Åse Ottosson -- Too Much Blackfellas: Performing Aboriginal Music in White Australian Towns2007-11-27 16:00 2007-11-27 18:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 701C Dodge Hall
Fabian Holt -- Music at American Borders: A Decentered Genre Study2007-10-29 16:00 2007-10-29 18:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: 701C Doge Hall 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 » Panel presentation: "Trends in the Contemporary Performance of Georgian Song"2007-10-18 15:00 2007-10-18 17:00 Etc/GMT-4 Location: Grace Dodge Hall, Teacher's College
This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Zedashe Ensemble Concert -- Traditional Song and Dance from the Republic of Georiga2007-10-18 20:00 2007-10-18 22:30 Etc/GMT-4 Location: Milbank Chapel, Teachers College
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