Post by deanna on Oct 2, 2014 7:51:48 GMT -7
David Samuels: "The Oldest Songs They Remember: Frances Densmore, Mountain Chief, and Ethnomusicology's Ideologies of Modernity."
Thursday October 2nd, 2-3:30, Waters Room, Zimmerman Library
Professor David Samuels’ discussion will focus on ethnomusicology’s perplexed relationship with vernacular Indigenous modernities. Focusing on an image of “the ethnomusicologist at work” that circulates as an icon of the discipline, Samuels explores ethnomusicology’s ethical discourses of the humanly musical and musically human.
David Samuels is a linguistic anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist who teaches in the Music Department at New York University. His book, Putting A Song On Top of It: Music and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation (University of Arizona Press, 2004) was the first book-length monograph exploring popular music’s place in the formation of contemporary Indigenous identities. His current work focuses on missionary encounters in the refiguring of language, culture, and aesthetics, and the sense of ethics informing the discourse of various musical movements in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Sarah A. Long: "Deflecting Disease: Musical Devotions in Honor of Plague Saints in Fifteenth-Century Northern French Confraternity Manuscripts"
Thursday October 30th, 2-3:30, Room 2100, CFA
In this talk, Professor Long discusses how confraternities or lay brotherhoods in Northern France and the Low Countries constructed specialized musical devotions in response to the plague and other epidemics in the fifteenth century. By the early sixteenth century, masses in honor of Saint Sebastian, Saint Anthony, Saint Roche, and Saint Geneviève—all protectors from the plague— appeared with frequency in liturgical books throughout the region, demonstrating that confraternities were at the forefront of liturgical innovation in the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.
Sarah Long is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University. From 2008-2013, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Alamire Foundation and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. From 2008-2010, she was the primary field researcher for the Antiphonaria Project of the Flemish Government, which explored liturgical books residing in public and private collections in Flanders. She is currently working on a monograph entitled, Save Us O Lord: Music and Spirituality in Northern French Confraternities, 1300-1550, for which she received a two-year Marie Curie IEF Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission (2011-2012). In addition to her teaching and research projects, she has served since 2013 as North American Director of the International Medieval Society, Paris (Université de Paris I-Sorbonne), and has been involved with organizing several international symposia for the organization.
Thursday October 2nd, 2-3:30, Waters Room, Zimmerman Library
Professor David Samuels’ discussion will focus on ethnomusicology’s perplexed relationship with vernacular Indigenous modernities. Focusing on an image of “the ethnomusicologist at work” that circulates as an icon of the discipline, Samuels explores ethnomusicology’s ethical discourses of the humanly musical and musically human.
David Samuels is a linguistic anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist who teaches in the Music Department at New York University. His book, Putting A Song On Top of It: Music and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation (University of Arizona Press, 2004) was the first book-length monograph exploring popular music’s place in the formation of contemporary Indigenous identities. His current work focuses on missionary encounters in the refiguring of language, culture, and aesthetics, and the sense of ethics informing the discourse of various musical movements in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Sarah A. Long: "Deflecting Disease: Musical Devotions in Honor of Plague Saints in Fifteenth-Century Northern French Confraternity Manuscripts"
Thursday October 30th, 2-3:30, Room 2100, CFA
In this talk, Professor Long discusses how confraternities or lay brotherhoods in Northern France and the Low Countries constructed specialized musical devotions in response to the plague and other epidemics in the fifteenth century. By the early sixteenth century, masses in honor of Saint Sebastian, Saint Anthony, Saint Roche, and Saint Geneviève—all protectors from the plague— appeared with frequency in liturgical books throughout the region, demonstrating that confraternities were at the forefront of liturgical innovation in the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.
Sarah Long is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University. From 2008-2013, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Alamire Foundation and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. From 2008-2010, she was the primary field researcher for the Antiphonaria Project of the Flemish Government, which explored liturgical books residing in public and private collections in Flanders. She is currently working on a monograph entitled, Save Us O Lord: Music and Spirituality in Northern French Confraternities, 1300-1550, for which she received a two-year Marie Curie IEF Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission (2011-2012). In addition to her teaching and research projects, she has served since 2013 as North American Director of the International Medieval Society, Paris (Université de Paris I-Sorbonne), and has been involved with organizing several international symposia for the organization.