2017 FSU UNDERGRADUATE MUSIC RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS The Society for Musicology at Florida State University is proud to announce the third annual Undergraduate Music Research Symposium, a student-led conference to be held on Saturday, April 1, 2017. The Symposium serves to promote excellence in musical scholarship among undergraduate students at our institution. […]
via [Call for Papers]2017 FSU Undergraduate Music Research Symposium — Society for Musicology
Come check out visiting scholar Ellen Koskoff! It’s going to be an excellent presentation 🙂
Please join us as we welcome Dr. Ellen Koskoff, Professor of Ethnomusicology at Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester, to our campus next week! She will be giving a lecture titled “Re-entering, Reconnecting, Rehearsing, and Reconstructing:
Fieldwork After Sixty” in the Longmire Recital Hall at 4 pm.
A reception will follow.
Abstract: From June, 2007 until May, 2008, I lived in Bali Indonesia, conducting fieldwork in a small community (banjar), where I played with a local gamelan angklung group for Balinese Hindu cremations. Today, I share some of the unexpected surprises I encountered there. I’ll set some scenes and read some entries from my (un-edited) diary, so that you can hear a more direct voice, one that was often struggling with existential questions, like life and death, childhood and old age, and changing gender identites. Structured in four sections, this talk addresses fieldwork as an opportunity to confront and grapple…
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I’m happy to report that my master’s thesis titled “Celebrating and Preserving Music of Jewish Pasts: The Holocaust Survivor Band” is now available to view online! You can access the thesis here. If you’re interested in talking about my research, you can reach me at emily.ruth.allen@gmail.com.
