Music and Sound Studies Initiative
The Music and Sound Studies Initiative explores new possibilities for thinking beyond disciplinary boundaries in the research and pedagogy of music and sound at the University of Minnesota. Crucial to this effort is gathering information about the current state of music and sound research from experienced scholars who are presently wrestling with problems of disciplinary tracking, the expanding purview of their fields, and job placement for graduates. The members of this collaborative propose to invite esteemed scholars writing on music and sound from a variety of interrelated perspectives, both to learn about their research (as exemplars of particular tendencies within music and sound studies) and to discuss with them the prospects for music and sound studies within the Anglo-American academy in the coming years. Convener: Sumanth Gopinath (Music, CLA).
Collaborative Participants: William Beeman (Anthropology, CLA), Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (Music, CLA), Michael Cherlin (Music and Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts, CLA), Evelyn Ch’ien (English, CLA), Scott Currie (Music, CLA), Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie (Music, CLA), David Damschroder (Music, CLA), Douglas Geers (Music, CLA), David Grayson (Music, CLA), Kelley Harness (Music, CLA), Scott Lipscomb (Music, CLA), Guerino Mazzola (Music and Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts, CLA), Peter Mercer-Taylor (Music, CLA), Ali Momeni (Art and Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts, CLA), Gloria Raheja (Anthropology, CLA), Gil Rodman (Communication Studies, CLA), Anna Schultz (Music, CLA), Diane Willow (Department of Art).
Upcoming Events
Friday, January 23
Conversations on Music and Sound Studies
"Is Music a Thing?":
A presentation by Jonathan Sterne
11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall
Monday, March 2
Conversations on Music and Sound Studies
"The Nature of Music from a Neurobiological Perspective": A presentation by Isabelle Peretz
12:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall
Monday, March 9
Conversations on Music and Sound Studies
"Oral Tradition, Media, and Modernity: Experiencing Music in India": Presentation by Regula Qureshi
12:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall
Thursday, April 10
Conversations on Music and Sound Studies
Presentation by George Lewis
11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Location TBA
Monday, April 20
Conversations on Music and Sound Studies
Presentation by Philip Bohlman
12:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall
Friday, May 1
Conversations on Music and Sound Studies
Presentation by David Hesmondhalgh
11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Location TBA
Previous Collaborative Events
Monday, October 6
Roundtable: "Conversations on the Future of Music and Sound Studies"
12:00 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall
Thursday, October 16
"Music/Theater/Movement/Visual Art - Unprotected Borders": A roundtable discussion with Michael Cherlin, David Gordon, Ain Gordon, Rebecca Lazier, Clarence Morgan
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Friday, October 17
"Conversations on Music and Sound Studies": with Mitchell Morris
12:00 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall
Friday, October 17
"Sound, Spirit, Self, Society: On the Musical Poetics of Battlestar Galactica": Presentation by Mitchell Morris
3:15 p.m., 135 Nicholson Hall
Thursday, December 4
"The Anatomy of a Beethoven Quartet": Performance and discussion with Tom Rosenberg and Michael Cherlin
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center