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 … Continue reading →

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: … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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), … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Take a break from refreshing the news and join us tonight at 5:00 pm for a panel presentation on the contemporary challenges and possibilities of ethnographic fieldwork. We’ll be hearing from: Fiona Boyd: “Negotiating Curatorial and Artistic Relevance through Performance and … Continue reading →

Welcome back to the 2020-21 academic year! This year, EthNoise! is meeting entirely online via Zoom. We kicked off our EthNoise! season early with two summer sessions, where we heard from several of the students who will be presenting at … Continue reading →