Please see the link to Andrew Mall’s recent post on the sad news of the closing of Dr. Wax in Hyde Park. http://atm4.net/?p=258

We welcome Jonathan De Souza, graduate student in the Department of Music presenting: “Take Me Back To That Beautiful Indian Country That I Love: Western Musicals and American Cultural Memory.” Abstract: When westerns express nostalgia for the frontier, they embody a modern form of cultural memory, based in mass media. These films depict historical realities, […]

We welcome Dr. Morgan Luker, presenting: “Contemporary Tango and the Cultural Politics of Música Popular.” Abstract: Astillero is a contemporary tango ensemble based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose work is focused on rearticulating tango’s relationship to a specifically Latin American notion of “the popular.” This project is framed by the contested musical and social histories […]

Co-sponsored by the Theater & Performance Studies and Gender & Sexuality Workshops: We welcome fellow graduate student in ethnomusicology Luis-Manuel Garcia, presenting: “Smooth Experience/Rough Experience: Coming Undone and the ‘Night Out’ in Nightclub Scenes in Paris, Chicago, and Berlin.” Abstract: Luis’ paper focuses on fieldwork done in the “techno” / “minimal” dance music scenes in […]

Please join us for Ethnoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop, taking place this Thursday afternoon, February 11, from 4:30 to 6 in Goodspeed 205. We welcome Professor Charles Garrett, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance, presenting: “Joking Matters: Humor and American Music”. Biography: Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Associate Professor […]