Spring 2010
March 10
Imagining the Listener Through American Experimental Music: NPR's RadioVisions
Louise Chernosky is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Columbia University and editor-in-chief of the journal Current Musicology. Her research interests include American experimentalism, gender politics in music and music in broadcast media. She has done work on environmentalism in George Crumb's music and Brenda Hutchinson's blend of ethnography and composition, and is currently writing a dissertation titled "Voices and Authority in American Public Radio."
March 24
The Contradanza: Its Influence in Popular and Art Music of the Americas
Dominican-born pianist and ethnomusicologist Angelina Tallaj is currently working at the CUNY Graduate Center on her dissertation "Performing Blackness, Resisting Whiteness: Dominican Music and Identity." She has written on issues of identity, ethnicity and sexuality in music of the Dominican Republic and is producing a recording of rarely heard repertoire from that country.
May 5
The Haitian Revolution as a Generative Explosion of Popular Music
A 2005 Guggenheim Fellow, Ned Sublette is also a composer, musician, record producer and musicologist. As both a scholar and a performer, he has explored a variety of Afro-Carribean music styles. He cofounded the Cuban music label Qbadisc and coproduced public radio's Afropop Worldwide. Sublette's books include Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo (Chicago Review Press, 2004), The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Lawrence Hill, 2008), and The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans (Lawrence Hill, 2009).
