Please join us on Thursday, April 30 for a workshop co-sponsored by SASI (South Asian Sound Initiatives): Margaret Walker will give a talk entitled “From Salaam to Pranaam: The Sanskritization of North Indian Dance.” Please find an abstract below. In preparation for the discussion, Margaret encourages us to read in advance her recent chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Revival. (Please […]

Please join us on Thursday, April 23 for a presentation and discussion with Lauren Eldridge. The talk is entitled “Racing Genre: Choral Performances of an Authentic Haiti.” Please find an abstract below. As always, we will meet at 4:30pm in Goodspeed 205. Our workshop is open to the public and all are welcome.   Racing Genre: Choral Performances of […]

Please join us Thursday, April 9 for “Thinking in Music”: A Dialogue between Autistic Self-Advocate Ibby Grace and Ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan. Please find the abstract below. In preparation for the discussion, Michael Bakan encourages you to read his recent article in Ethnomusicology: “‘Don’t Go Changing to Try and Please Me’: Combating Essentialism Through Ethnography in the Ethnomusicology of Autism,” […]