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"No Other Home: The Crimean Tatars"

"No Other Home: The Crimean Tatars" is a work-in-progress collaboration between Maria Sonevytsky, an ethnomusicology PhD candidate at Columbia University, and Alison Cartwright, an award-winning New York City based photographer. In May of 2008, they travelled together throughout Crimea, an autonomous region of Ukraine, gathering the stories and songs that underscore the Crimean Tatars's decades-long struggle to return to their motherland following their brutal deportation by Stalin in 1944. read more »

A Survivors' Music Manifesto: On the Singing of Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women'

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.

Sarah Weiss: "Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception"

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 Shelemay

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!!

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

Brown Bag Discussion: Dr. Chie Sakakibara and Aaron Fox discuss the Barrow Repatriation Project

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

The Columbia Klezmer Band performs with Lion In The Grass Bluegrass Band

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.