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Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan Hit Manhattan
by Sean Wilentz, Princeton University

Reading Cage
by Richard H. Brown, University of Southern California

“Not Exact, but Near Enough”: Complexity and Playfulness in Nancarrow’s Study No. 41
by Margaret Thomas, Connecticut College

Guthrie Centennial Scholarship: Ruminating on Woody at 100
by Ray Allen

Fresh Insights into Boone and Handy
by Edward A. Berlin

Brass Band Music of the Civil War
by Raoul Camus

Institute News

New Colombian Music in New York City Jorge Arévalo Mateus
Thursday, 11 April 2013
2:15 pm
Occidental Lounge, Student Union

Jorge Arévalo Mateus is project director for FolkCOLOMBIA Música y Danza at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York. He holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University (2012) and, since 1994, is co-founder and curator of the Woody Guthrie Archives and Foundation. He has also been assistant director at the Louis Armstrong House and Archives at Queens College (CUNY) as well as consultant to the Raíces Latin Music Museum and Archives (Boys and Girls Harbor, Inc.), the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. Dr. Arévalo Mateus’ areas of expertise include Latin-American and Caribbean traditional and popular musics, American Folk and Jazz, world and global musics. He teaches courses in Latin musics at the Center for Ethnic Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). In 2008 he won a GRAMMY for producing The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance, 1949 in the Best Historical Recording category; he received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for the accompanying monograph.

Latin Jazz Arturo O’Farrill and the Brooklyn College Jazz Ensemble,
with special guest composer & trombonist Papo Vazquez
Thursday, 18 April 2013
7:00 pm
Studio 312, Roosevelt Extension

Composer, trombonist, and band leader Papo Vazquez is one of New York’s leading Latin jazz figures. A native of Philadelphia and of Puerto Rican heritage, he has played with many Latin jazz icons including the Tito Puente, the Fania All Stars, Ray Barretto, Willie Colon, Grupo Folklorico Nuyorquino, Eddie Palmieri, and Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band. As a composer Vazquez has been commissioned by Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Lincoln Center, and the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Arturo O’Farrill, director of the Brooklyn College Big Band and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, is one of New York’s most accomplished Latin jazz musicians. He was trained in piano and composition at the Manhattan School of Music and at Brooklyn College, where he received a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2006. A recognized composer, Mr. O’Farrill has received commissions from Meet the Composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Philadelphia Music Project, and the Big Apple Circus.

“Bring That Beat Back”: The Development of Beat Making Techniques from Turntables to the Sampler Patrick Rivers and Will Fulton
Thursday, 2 May 2013
11:00 am
Studio 312, Roosevelt Extension

Patrick Rivers and Will Fulton will demonstrate how deejays used turntables to create breakbeats from sections of soul, funk, jazz, and rock re- cordings, and how this tactile practice transferred to drum machines and samplers. Combining live demonstration of turntables and the digital sam- pler techniques with historical background of stylistic development, this presentation will il- luminate the relationship between pre-recorded instrumental performances and technological manipulation that defined hip-hop music making by the late 1980s.

Will Fulton is a lecturer, music producer, and doctoral student in musicology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Patrick Rivers is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and is currently completing a dissertation on hip-hop production entitled "The Mad Science of Hip-Hop: History, Technology, and Poetics of Hip-Hop’s Music."

Articles on Woody Guthrie in the recent AMR Woody Guthrie and the Occupy Movement
By Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire

In 2006 the Irish folksinger and radical activist Christy Moore responded to my query about what Woody Guthrie had meant to him as an aspiring songwriter. He said: “I first heard Woody in 1967. Listening to his songs I got the idea that maybe someday I could write a song myself. I also learned from Woody that songs of protest should be sung on the front line. . . . read more

Woody Guthrie Archives: "A Good Job of Work"
by Tiffany Colannino & Nora Guthrie

14 July 2012 marks Woodrow Wilson Guthrie’s 100th birthday. Woody’s legacy is alive and thriving today, thanks in part to the thousands of documents he created during his lifetime that have been preserved in the Woody Guthrie Archives. . . . read more

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