Marissa Moorman presenting, “Always on the up and up!”: Kuduro Music and Dance in Post-Colonial Angola”

The African Studies Workshop and EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop are pleased to present Marissa Moorman (Assistant Professor, History; Affiliate, Department of Gender Studies; Indiana University) presenting on Kuduro, the urban Angolan music/dance and its Transatlantic travels Claudia Gastrow (Anthropology) and Daniel Gough (Music), discussants Tuesday, April 20 6:00 pm Wilder House (5811 S Kenwood)

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Daniel Gough, presenting “Spaces of Sound: Popular Music in São Paulo, Brazil”

We welcome Daniel Gough, graduate student in the Department of Music presenting: “Spaces of Sound: Popular Music in São Paulo, Brazil” Abstract: This paper will discuss São Paulo, Brazil’s expanded center as a musical and geographical space before raising questions about performance venues, institutional management, and generic categories in the city’s twenty-first century popular music […]

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