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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.
Spring 2005
Music in
Polycultural America
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Hollywood Singing: Cartoons and the Persistence of Tin Pan
Alley
Daniel Goldmark is Assistant Professor of
Music at the University of Alabama, where he teaches film music and popular
music studies. He co-edited The Cartoon Music Book (A
Cappella Books), and his book Tunes for 'Toons:
Music and Hollywood Cartoons, will be published by University
of California Press. His presentation will explore the origins of early
cartoon music in relation to Tin Pan Alley.
Tuesday, March 1, 12:15 pm, Jefferson-Williams Lounge
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Gittin'
to Know Y'all: Improvised Music, Interculturalism, and the Racial
Imagination
NEW DATE: MONDAY, APRIL 18, 12:15pm,
BROOKLYN COLLEGE STUDENT CENTER (SUBO), STATE LOUNGE, 5TH FLOOR
George E. Lewis, the Edwin M. Case Professor of American
Music at Columbia University and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, is
and improviser-trombonist, composer, and computer/installation artist. He
has
published numerous articles on music, visual art, and cultural studies, and
his book Power Stronger Than Itself: on the Association for the
Advancement of Creative Musicians, is forthcoming from the
University of Chicago Press. His presentation will identify
uninterrogated tropes in experimental music that seem to embody coded
assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class, and will examine why the
European "free jazz" movement and the AACM remain relatively
distant from each other, despite their evident similarities.
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Gendering
the Jazz Wars
Sherrie Tucker, the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor of Jazz
Studies at Columbia University, is author of Swing Shift:
“All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s (Duke University Press).
Professor Tucker’s research focuses on jazz studies, feminist theory,
gender and sexuality studies, theories of race and ethnicity, oral history,
and historiography. She is currently writing an oral history of the dance
floor at the Hollywood Canteen during the 1940s to be published by Duke
University Press. Her presentation will explore issues of primitivism and
appropriation in white women’s use of jazz in the postwar period.
Thursday, April 14, 4 pm, State
Lounge
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Performing
the Brazilian Diaspora in the United States
Jason Stanyek is
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Richmond.
His major areas of research are Brazilian music, interculturalism,
improvisation, and African diasporic culture, and he is writing a book on
Brazilian performance in the US He is active as a guitarist, composer, and cavaquinho
player. His presentation will examine the role various forms of
performance, including music and dance, in the construction of a Brazilian
diasporic identity.
Tuesday,
May 3, 1:30 pm, State Lounge
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