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Event Start:
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
Peter
Manuel is a Professor of Music at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate
Center. He has written extensively about popular and traditional musics of India,
the Caribbean, and elsewhere. Three of his books have earned prestigious awards.
An amateur sitarist, jazz pianist, and flamenco guitarist, he teaches seminars
on Indian music, Latin American music, world popular music, aesthetics, and
other topics.
Aaron Fox, Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University, will be speaking in the Music Department Spring Colloquium Series at Columbia University on Friday, March 30, 2007 from 4 to 6 PM in 620 Dodge Hall.
The title of his talk is "Country Music's (Late) Modern Period."
Ruth Rosenberg, a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Dept. of Music, will be responding to the paper. Open to the public. read more »
The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce a public colloquium by Deborah Wong, Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of California at Riverside and President-Elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Title: "Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More."
Date and Time: Thursday March 29, 4-6 PM
Location: 701C Dodge Hall
(Center for Ethno, click here for directions)
Space is limited and RSVP is requested to aaf19@columbia.edu
About Prof. Deborah Wong: Deborah Wong is Professor of Music at the University of California at Riverside, and President Elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has published two books, Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Ritual (Chicago University Press, 2001), and Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music (Routledge, 2004). She performs with Satori Daiko, a taiko ensemble in Los Angeles, and this presentation is from her book in progress, Big Beats: Taiko in Southern California.
Technologies of the Diva: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference on Opera
Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th March 2007
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 116th and 118th Streets)
New York City
Click here for conference website
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(co-sponsored by the Center for Ethnomusicology)
The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce a film screening and discussion with Prof. Hugo Zemp, Director of Research at CNRS, Paris, France. Prof. 
Zemp is among the most prolific and influential ethnomusicologists of the past 30 years, and we are honored to host an informal meeting to discuss his current ethnographic and documentary work. This event is open to graduate students and faculty in music at Columbia, only. Requests to attend from others should be sent to Aaron Fox at aaf19@columbia.edu and will be accommodated on a space-available basis if possible.
Prof. Zemp will be screening his film, "An African Brass Band" (filmed by Prof. Zemp in Cote D'Ivoire in 2002) and discussing African urban musics and ethnographic videography.
WEDNESDAY, April 11, 2007, 4-6 PM, 701C Dodge Hall
Time has been confirmed, please note change from earlier posting.
ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED. YOU MUST RSVP TO PROF. FOX TO ATTEND
The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present "A Conversation With Jonathan Sterne" on Thursday, March 22, 2007, in the Center for Ethnomusicology (701C Dodge Hall), from 12-2 PM.
Jonathan Sterne is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (Canada), and the author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. (Duke 2003), among many other important writings. Prof. Sterne will be speaking at the "Technologies of the Diva" conference on Saturday, March 24, in a public lecture. Click here for more information about that conference.
This event is a limited-attendance seminar. It is open to graduate students and faculty in the Department of Music and other Departments at Columbia and in the Consortium, by RSVP only to Aaron Fox at aaf19@columbia.edu. Please RSVP as soon as possible. Space is limited.
Prof. Sterne's online CV may be downloaded from the link below this entry. Or learn much more about his work by visiting his website, Sterneworks.org
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The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present a talk by:
Klisala Harrison (PhD Candidate, York University)
Talk Title: Power of the Drum: Aboriginal Music and Healing in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Downtown Eastside
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Time: 4PM - 6PM
Location: 701C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusicology), Columbia University, 116th and Broadway, NY NY
The Native American Studies Today Series presents:
Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman (Associate Professor of American Culture and Music, Univ. of Michigan)
Lecture Title: “Hula Lives! Performing the Archives, Recuperating Our History”
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Location: CSER Seminar Room/420 Hamilton Hall,
Columbia University, NY NY
Time: 4PM-6PM
For more information visit:
http://www.music.columbia.edu/cecenter/NAST/
Program Series: “Ancient Soundscapes: New Echoes from Japan’s Musical Past”
Talk Title: FABRICATING SELF-IMAGE THROUGH MUSIC: THE RYUKYU KINGDOM’S ARTISTIC STRATEGY IN HER RELATIONSHIP WITH JAPAN AND CHINA
NAOKO TERAUCHI (Kobe University, and Visiting Professor of Music, Columbia University, and 2006-7 Envoy, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan)
TIME AND LOCATION:
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
6-7:30 PM
Kent Hall, Columbia University
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 116 TH STREET & AMSTERDAM AVENUE
116th and Amsterdam Ave., NY NY
SUMMARY: Historically, the Ryukyu Kingdom, also known as Okinawa, maintained close relations with both China and Japan. By absorbing, blending, and elaborating upon various cultural elements from both countries, Ryukyu developed several different types of music, dance, and theater. This lecture will address how, in response to the expectations of China and Japan, the Ryukyuan people tried to fabricate self-image through their performing arts as well as how they carefully selected these performances in accordance with time, place, and occasion.
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