EthNoise! Ethnomusicology Workshop

Please join us for our first meeting of the Winter Quarter, on Friday afternoon, February 1st from 3:30 to 5.  Our speaker will be Dr. Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, Senior Lecturer of Music at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.  Her paper is entitled:

“Gendering ‘musicking’: Commodification of Women in Ugandan’s Music Business”

Friday, February 1, 3:30 to 5

Goodspeed Hall 402 (Please note this is not our usual meeting place and time!)

Persons with a disability who may need assistance in attending this event, please call Michael O’Toole at 773-320-7647.  

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Unless otherwise noted, all EthNoise! Workshops are held from 4:30 to 6:00 pm in Goodspeed Hall, Room 205, on the University of Chicago campus.

October 11: Alex Wilson, Mentor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago.  “I Guess That This Must be the Place: Culture, Structure, and Naive Melodies in an ‘Indie’ Record Store”

October 18: Suzel Reily, Reader in Ethnomusicology, Queen’s University Belfast and Tinker Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, University of Chicago.  “Music in the Streets: A Dialogue Between Brazil and Northern Ireland”

November 1: Nick Dempsey, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.  “Jazz in Context: The Role of Contextual Parameters in Coordinating Jam Session Interactions”

November 8: Jayson Beaster-Jones, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.  “Filmsongs, Evergreens, and Remixes: India’s Popular Music Heritage”

November 15: Luis-Manuel Garcia, Department of Music, University of Chicago.  “Intimacy at the Sonic Surface” 

November 29: Marcello Sorce-Keller, Visiting Professor, Department of Music, University of Chicago.  “Classical music … if it just were not so classical!  (Musical gardens and greenhouses versus woods and prairies)”   

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