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EthNoise! Workshop, May 29: Hedy Law

Please join us for our sixth and final meeting of the Spring Quarter this Thursday, May 29, at 4:30pm in Goodspeed Hall 205. EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is pleased to welcome:
“Viral Cantopop: The Sound of Dangerous Music”
Hedy Law
Harper Fellow, Society of Fellows
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities
The University of Chicago
Persons with a disability who believe they may […]

EthNoise! Symposium, May 24: Musical Meaning and its Media[tion]

EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is proud to announce our 5th annual graduate symposium, to take place on Saturday, May 24. This year’s theme is: Musical Meaning and its Media[tion]. See below for our preliminary schedule. The program runs from 9:30am until 6:00pm, and takes place in Classics 110. Highlights include:

Eleven papers presented by University of […]

EthNoise! Workshop, May 15: Michael Bourdaghs

Please join us for our fifth meeting of the Spring Quarter this Thursday, May 15, at 4:30pm in Goodspeed Hall 205. EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is pleased to welcome:
“Counterfeiting China: Japanese Orientalist Pop Songs, 1931-1945″
Michael K. Bourdaghs
Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature
University of Chicago
Please take some time to read his paper prior to the workshop; […]

EthNoise! Workshop, May 1: Bruno Nettl

Please join us for our fourth meeting of the Spring Quarter this Thursday, May 1, at 4:30pm in Goodspeed Hall 205. EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is extremely happy to welcome:
“Self-critique in Ethnomusicology: Comments on the History of a Tradition”
Bruno Nettl
Professor Emeritus of Musicology
University of Illinois School of Music
Persons with a disability who believe they […]

EthNoise! Workshop, April 24: Gabriel Solis

Please join us for our third meeting of the Spring Quarter this Thursday, April 24, at 4:30pm in Goodspeed Hall 205. EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is extremely happy to welcome:
“Our Law: Aboriginal music and Dance, Cosmopolitan Australia, and the problem of ‘the traditional’”
Gabriel Solis
Assistant Professor of Musicology
University of Illinois School of Music
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EthNoise! Workshop, April 15: Nathan Bakkum

Please join us for our second meeting of the Spring Quarter next Tuesday (note the irregular day), April 15, at 4:30pm in Goodspeed Hall 205. EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is proud to welcome:
“Things Ain’t What They Used To Be: Swingin’ Toward the Center with Count Basie’s All-American Rhythm Section”
Nathan Bakkum
PhD Candidate, Department of Music
University of […]

Anthropology of Europe Workshop, April 10: Katalin Kovalcsik

CEERES and the Anthropology of Europe Workshop present:
Katalin Kovalcsik (Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
“The Change of Storytelling in a Hungarian Vlach Romani Community from the 1980s to 2002″
Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:00 p.m.
Haskell 315
Reception to follow.
If you need assistance attending this talk, please contact CEERES at 773-702-0875.
Abstract: An analysis of tale telling in the […]

EthNoise! Workshop, April 3: Suzanne Wint

EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop is pleased to announce the first meeting of the Spring Quarter, this Thursday, April 3, at 4:30pm in Goodspeed Hall 205:
“Classical Kampala: Expanding a Scene without an Infrastructure”
Suzanne Wint
PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago
Proponents of Western Classical music in Europe and the United States often advocate strengthening the “infrastructure” […]

EthNoise! Symposium, May 24: Call for Papers

EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce its 2008 Symposium, entitled “Musical Meaning and its Media[tion].” The program committee welcomes abstracts for presentations that investigate the contributions of extra‐musical mediation to the construction of musical meaning. All repertories are welcome, and possible topics include (but are not limited to) […]

EthNoise! Workshop, February 28: Kaley Mason

Please join us this Thursday afternoon, February 28th, for the third EthNoise! workshop of the Winter Quarter.
“Social Capital and Cinematic Song Producers in South India”
Kaley Mason, Post-doctoral Fellow in Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago
Thursday, February 28, 4:30-6:00
Goodspeed Hall 205
Persons with a disability who may need assistance in attending this event, please call Michael Figueroa at 904-614-1464.