Institute for Studies in American Music   

Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College

In conjunction with
the Conservatory of Music, African Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies, Women's Center, and the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies at Brooklyn College.

                                                                                        

Fall 2005

Music in Polycultural America

 

 

Irving Berlin, Jazz, and Broadway in the 1920s

 

Jeffrey Magee is an associate professor of musicology at Indiana University. His book The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz was published by Oxford University Press earlier this year. He is now writing a book on Irving Berlin.

 

Wednesday, October 26, 1:30 pm   State Lounge, Student Center

 

“Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter”: Slipping the Yokes in Black Feminist Rock Criticism

 

Daphne A. Brooks is an assistant professor of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University, where she teaches courses on African-American literature and culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture. She is completing two books: Bodies in Dissent:  Performing Race, Gender, and Nation in the Trans-Atlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press) and Jeff Buckley’s Grace (Continuum). 

 

Wednesday, November 9, 12:15 pm  State Lounge, Student Center

 

The Motown Revue and Dusty Springfield at the Brooklyn Fox, 1964

 

Annie Janeiro Randall, an associate professor of music at Bucknell University, is editor of Music, Power, and Politics (Routledge) and co-author of Puccini and “The Girl”: History and Reception of The Girl of the Golden West (University of Chicago Press).  Her research on Dusty Springfield will be published in the forthcoming collection She’s So Fine: Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence, and Class in 1960s Music

 

Thursday, November 17, 3:30 pm  Alumni Lounge, Student Center

 

Lukas Foss: A Celebration of a Life in Music

 

Lukas Foss, composer, conductor, and pianist, has championed new music in America for many decades. He is former principal conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, former music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, and was professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. His many compositions, including Time Cycle, Echoi, Three American Pieces, and Introductions and Goodbyes, have been performed and recorded extensively.

 

Tuesday, November 29, 2:00 pm, State Lounge, Student Center

 

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