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Harvard University
Smith College
Tufts University
Wesleyan University
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Ingrid Monson will join the Harvard faculty on July 1 as the Quincy
Jones Professor of Music and Afro American Studies. She is currently
Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis.
Patricia Tang submitted her dissertation in January, 2001, and will
receive the Ph.D. in March. Her dissertation is titled "Masters
of the Sabar: Wolof Griots in Contemporary Senegal."
Kay Kaufman Shelemay was elected a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and inducted into the Academy in October, 2000.
Richard Wolf received an award from the Harvard Committee on Ethnic
Studies and an Innovation Grant from the Dean of Undergraduate Education
at Harvard College to support a course on classical South Indian music.
The course will include a series of workshops with T. Viswanathan and
David Nelson, and includes concert to be held at Harvard's Paine Hall
on March 15 at 7pm. The concert is free and open to the public.
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SMITH COLLEGE
The Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and UMass
at Amherst) are pleased to announce that the 2001 visiting resident
ethnomusicologist will be Gage Averill of New York University. He will
giving a variety of presentations at each of the five campuses during
the week of March 26-30. In addition, he will be the key-note speaker
for the NECSEM meeting at Smith College on March 31. For a full listing
of the events of the week, including titles of public lectures, please
contact Renee Fall (rfall@fivecolleges.edu).
The Smith College gamelan will give its spring concert on Saturday,
April 28th.
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TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Jeffrey Summit (Tufts University) has recently published The Lord's
Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship
(Oxford University Press, 2000, CD included). He is currently working
on research that he conducted in Uganda last summer on the liturgical
music of the Abayudaya,
the Black Jews of Uganda.
Tomie Hahn (Tufts University)
has been awarded a fellowship from the American Association for University
Women and a Tufts Faculty Research Fellowship. She is on leave to complete
her book (tentatively titled)
Sensational Knowledge: Transmitting Japanese Dance. Tomie continues
her research on Monster Truck rallies and gestural controllers in interactive
music performance. In June 2001, she and her collaborators of "interface":
Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman, will be featured Artists-in-Residence as
part of the Interactive
Performance Series co-sponsored by the Ohio State University Department
of Dance/Wexner Center. There they will complete new work, participate
in an international workshop on interactive music and dance, and give
a full multi-media performance.
David Locke (Tufts University) is on sabbatical leave during spring
semester. His courses in African music and dance are being taught by
Dolsi-naa Abubakari Lunna with whom David has studied for many years.
Dolsi-naa and David are continuing their research and documentation
project on the music-culture of the Dagomba people. David has contributed
a chapter about performing and teaching African music to a book project
about world music ensembles edited by Ted Solis. In April David travels
to Italy to teach at the Conservatory of Florence.
Idella Johnson (Tufts University) has joined the faculty of the Department
of Music. Professor Johnson, whose doctoral degree will be in Ethnomusicology
from University of Pittsburgh, is a specialist in African-American gospel
music.
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
In December 2000 - January 2001, several people from Wesleyan University
traveled to Chennai (Madras), India, to perform, study, research, and
visit friends. They also attended many concerts during the annual "Music
Season," an event that has grown over the years to encompass over
2,000 concerts in dozens of venues around the city, making it one of
the largest musical festivals in the world. The group consisted of Adjunct
Professor of Music T. Viswanathan, doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology
Joseph Getter, M.A.
in World Music graduate Susan Tveekrem, and mridangam student and Wesleyan
graduate Michael Fogg. Viswanathan performed four solo flute and vocal
concerts in intimate house settings, recorded a flute concert for broadcast
on the government's All India Radio, and performed flute in two dance
concerts by his niece Lakshmi and her son Aniruddha. He worked on several
projects including research on his ancestors' music, and taught several
local students. Tveekrem performed together with Viswanathan as his
support
vocalist in one of the house concerts, and as clarinetist for both of
the dance concerts. She and Getter, students of Viswanathan, performed
an informal house concert as well as a vocal and flute duo recital at
the
Indian Fine Arts Society, receiving a complimentary review in the national
newspaper, The
Hindu. Their travel was supported in part by the Jon B. Higgins
Memorial Fund of Wesleyan University, a fund dedicated to supporting
the study of South Indian music. Getter, also adjunct music faculty
at Southern Connecticut State University, conducted research for his
dissertation on film music in India, including interviews with great
music directors M.S. Viswanathan and A.R. Rahman. Fogg studied instrument
building from several master makers, and had many mridangam lessons
from his teacher, Ramnad Raghavan, who retired last summer from his
position as Artist in Residence at Wesleyan and now resides in Chennai.
NECSEM News is an occasional publication of the Northeast Chapter of
the Society for Ethnomusicology
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