The H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for
Studies in American Music

 

Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College


In collaboration with the Conservatory of Music, the Department of Africana Studies, the American Studies Program, and the Office of the Provost at Brooklyn College present:

 

Fall 2008

Music in Polycultural America

 

 

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.: A Conversation and Performance

 

Musicologist and jazz pianist Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written widely on African American music and culture and is author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-hop (2003, University of California Press). His current project, In Walked Bud: Earl “Bud” Powell and the Modern Jazz Challenge, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. A veteran of a wide variety of live performances and recordings, Professor Ramsey will appear with his own group, Dr. Guy’s MusiQologY, a Philadelphia-based ensemble that has toured the US, South America, and Australia. Professor Ramsey will be introduced and interviewed by Brooklyn College’s own Michael Salim Washington.

 

Tuesday, 23 September, 2:15 pm, Levenson Recital Hall

 

The American Piano: A Musical Journey from 1820 to Present

Pianist and Conservatory student Angelo Rondello hosts an intriguing look at the history of piano composition in the United States with works by Heinrich, Gottschalk, Ives, Carter, and others. He is joined by Distinguished Professor Ursula Oppens, Conservatory faculty members Akira Eguchi and Adam Kent, alumni Jonathan Levin and Sandro Russo, and current students Carl Bolleia and Elena Nikolov.

 

Wednesday, 15 October, 8 pm, Levenson Recital Hall

 

Celebrating Subotnick

This presentation is part of Brooklyn College’s weeklong celebration of pioneering composer Morton Subotnick’s seventy-fifth birthday. Since the issue of his Silver Apples of the Moon, commissioned by Nonesuch Records in 1966, Subotnick has become internationally known as an innovator in the fields of electronic and electroacoustic music. Subotnick will introduce one of his works and engage in an informal dialogue with the audience. For other events in this celebration, please visit the Conservatory of Music website at www.bcmusic.org.

 

Please note that the time has been changed to the following:

Tuesday, 11 November, 1 pm, Whitman Auditorium Stage

 

“Somebody Scream!”: Rap Music and Black Power

Marcus Reeves is often cited as one of his generation’s most compelling writers on rap, hip hop, and youth culture. He is the author of Somebody Scream! Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) and hosts a program of the same title on public radio. He also contributed to Souls of My Brothers (Plume, 2003) and The Vibe History of Hip Hop (Crown, 2000), and is a former columnist for legendary hip hop producer Russell Simmons’s One World magazine. His map of New York’s hip hop historical landmarks was featured in the exhibit “The Hip Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage” at the Brooklyn Museum in 2000.

 

Wednesday, 19 November, 11 am, Woody Tanger Auditorium

 

Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis and John Coltrane

Farah Jasmine Griffin is Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of “Who Set You Flowin’”: The African-American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1996) and If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001). Michael Salim Washington is Associate Professor of Music at Brooklyn College. His jazz recordings include Love in Exile and Harlem Homecoming, and his scholarly work has appeared in Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia, 2004) and the Journal of the Society for American Music. This event celebrates the publication of Profs. Washington and Griffin’s collaboration, Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008).

 

Tuesday, 9 December, 2:15 pm, Maroon Room, Brooklyn College Student Center

 

 

 

 

The Brooklyn College Student Center is located on Campus Road and East 27th Street.

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