Please join us at the Ethnoise! workshop this Thursday, February 2nd at 4:30, in Goodspeed Hall room 205.  We will welcome Rachel Adelstein (PhD Candidate, U Chicago, Ethnomusicology) as she presents “Kol Isha:  Jewish Women’s Voices In Prayer And Song” Abstract: This presentation traces the paths by which women’s singing voices found their way into […]

Please join us for an upcoming Ethnoise! workshop on Thursday, January 26th, at 4:30 in Goodspeed Hall, Room 402. Dr. Nitasha Sharma (Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University) will present a paper titled “Post-9/11 Brown: U.S. South Asian Rappers and a Critique of U.S. Empire.” This talk draws […]

Please join us for our second Ethnoise! workshop of the quarter. We welcome Nathan Bakkum (Director of Musicology, Columbia College Chicago).  He will present a paper titled: “Out But In: Between Discourse and Practice in a London Jazz Quartet.” The discourse surrounding the production of “authentic” jazz has long coded the music as a product […]

Please join us for the first Ethnoise! of the winter quarter.  Alisha Lola Jones (U Chicago) will present “‘This Prayer Is UnSpoken’: Breaking Silence and Negotiating Queerness in Black Gospel Performance.” This paper examines performances and discourses of two gospel artists, Ton3x and Jungle Cat, who embody longstanding tensions and contradictions concerning queerness and black […]