Please join us this evening for a presentation from PhD student Chris Batterman Cháirez, with a response from Siting Jiang. “So Let’s Bang on Some Pots”: Sound, Intimacy, and the Political Anatomy of Affect in Brazil’s Panelaços Abstract: In March of 2020, following new shelter-in-place orders enacted in an effort to curb the spread of the […]

Join us tonight for a presentation from PhD student Ronit Ghosh! “Mapping Jazz in India and India in Jazz: Improvisations and Encounters” Abstract: Studying jazz in early twentieth century India involves tracking its myriad routes, its multiple mediations and the discursive horizons it forged and within which it operated and still operates. Even a cursory glance at the ways in which jazz has […]

Please join us this evening at 5:00pm CT for a presentation from U Chicago alumnus and visiting Senior Fulbright Fellow Chun-bin Chen! Abstract: This paper aims to support and expand James Clifford’s debate on indigenous diasporas. He notes that indigenous diaspora is not a condition of exile, and a return of indigenous diasporas may take many […]

Join us this evening at 5:00pm for a workshop presentation by PhD Candidate Hannah Rogers! Abstract: In retrospect, Mardi Gras 2020 marked the beginning of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in New Orleans. Murmurs about the virus circulated here as elsewhere, but at the time the threat itself seemed still distant, even as thousands […]

Join us this evening for a presentation from visiting professor Dr. Sylvia Alajaji! “Legibility and its Discontents: Reflections on the Cacophonies of the Armenian Diaspora” This talk will serve as a meditation on what, in essence, is an epistemological question: what is Armenian music? It is a question whose ripples extend far: into the nature […]

This talk continues the project of our research on country duo Karl & Harty’s song “Kentucky” (1941), which over the two or three decades after WWII became a staple, familiar number in the country and bluegrass songbook. We examine versions of the song by the Blue Sky Boys (1947), the Louvin Brothers (1956), Homer & […]

Join us tonight at 5:00 pm as we workshop PhD candidate David Wilson’s paper, “Diplomatic Dances: The White-Haired Girl’s Journey from Revolutionary Classic to Post-Mao Palimpsest.” The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) is often regarded as one of modern China’s most isolated periods. Furthermore, it is often regarded as quite separate from the historical periods that precede […]

Welcome back to Winter Quarter! Join us tonight at 5:00 pm for a panel presentation discussing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the classical music world. We’ll be hearing from: Audrey Slote: “Sounding Resilience: Freelance Musicians in the Time of COVID-19”   Melani Shahin: “Rehearsing Together Alone: An Examination of Virtually Mediated Music-Making and […]

Please join us this evening at 5:00 pm for the final EthNoise! of the fall quarter!   “Forgetting, Forgetting, Forgetting: Recording the Wounded Dialectic in Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee“ The teaching piece (Lehrstück) and radio play, Wolokolamsker Chaussee (Volokolamsk Highway), was created by the East German playwright, Heiner Müller, in the waning years of the […]

This evening, EthNoise is excited to welcome Dr. Elliott H. Powell for a presentation on his recent publication, Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music. Elliott H. Powell is a Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the […]