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Anthem: Remixing Race and Nation

Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA

Anthem: Remixing Race and Nation Monday May 8, 2017 Schoenberg Music Building 3:30pm – 5:30pm Afternoon Symposium Schoenberg Music Bldg, Room 1420, Free Reception in courtyard immediately follows 7:30pm – 9:15pm Concert & Panel Schoenberg Hall, The afternoon session features panelists Cecilia O'Leary (CSUMB, History and Communication), Robert Fink (UCLA Musicology), Wade Dean (UCLA Musicology)...

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HEAR/NOW/THEN/THERE: subversion, sound, and the queer underground

Music Library: Reading Room 445 Charles E Young Dr E #1102, Los Angeles, CA

The Hear / Now / Then / There lecture series aims to bring together diverse communities of interdisciplinary artists and thinkers, using the university as a meeting ground for ideas, conversation, collaboration and contemplation. The first talk in this series features Jenna Pup and Myriad Slits in a lively conversation about music and performance art in...

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“You Imagine Me, and I Exist:” The Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

This symposium explores the multiple “afterlives” of Sor Juana, i.e., the many ways in which the famous/infamous nun has been represented – from 17th- and 18th-century visual and literary portraits to 20th- and 21st-century historical novels, poetry, plays, films, musical performances, visual arts, and even a Netflix mini-series. The title of the symposium, ‘You Imagine...

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“And You Know Who I Am”: Paul Robeson in Concert

We are pleased to present “And You Know Who I Am”: Paul Robeson in Concert  in Schoenberg Hall on February 13, organized by Shana Redmond and the Center for Musical Humanities. An afternoon symposium in Royce 314, "Everything Man: Author Meets Critics" will include scholars Tammy Kernodle (Miami U), Jeffrey C. Stewart (UCSB Pulitzer Prize...

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“Performing Capitalism and Neoliberalism”

Online

RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqf-ugqjwpH9eVsJuQ2K6FxZbhM6QtGJF8 Across time and place, the arts have been heralded as a savior of all sorts; from promises of class mobility through creative freedom, to neocolonialist narratives about rescuing “troubled” youth, to the ability to turn passion into productive labor. Through historic and contemporary case studies, this panel explores how musical creativity and philanthropy...

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Music Performance Studies Today: “Anti-Blackness in Western Classical Music”

Zoom Meeting

This panel moves with the current momentum of Black Lives Matter demonstrations and recent conversations considering whiteness in music theory to consider aspects of the panel extend to identifying issues and frames in classical performance, such as biased listening, pedagogy, minuscule representation of concert artists, long-term outcomes of black classical musicians, treatment, and ethics.

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Music Performance Studies Today: “The Ephemerality of Musical Hearing”

Zoom Meeting

Given the ephemerality of performance, what are key issues behind the transmission of musical remembrance? How can we narrow the divide between what Diana Taylor calls the “archive” of enduring materials, such as texts, documents, and buildings, and the “more ephemeral ‘repertoire’ of embodied practice/knowledge,” such as “spoken language, dance, sports, ritual” and, we add, music performance?

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Hear / Now / Then / There: Subversion, Sound, and the Queer Underground

Zoom Meeting

The Hear / Now / Then / There lecture series aims to bring together diverse communities of interdisciplinary artists and thinkers, using the university as a meeting ground for ideas, conversation, collaboration and contemplation. The final event in this series features Jasmine Nyende in a lively conversation about music and performance art. Jasmine Nyende's practice...

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Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies – Performing Jewish Music: Nostalgia, Tradition, and Innovation

Zoom Meeting

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allow us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well...

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Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies: Nostalgia and the Television Musical

Zoom Meeting

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allow us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well...

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Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies: Counter Nostalgias

Zoom Meeting

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allow us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well...

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Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies: Troubling Classical Music’s Nostalgias

Zoom Meeting

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allow us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well...

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Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies: Heritage and Identity

Zoom Meeting

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allow us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well...

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Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies: Nostalgia for Different Pasts

Zoom Meeting

The Nostalgia, Music and Music Studies conference series aims to bring nostalgia studies more broadly into conversation with music and music studies. As a theoretical framework, nostalgia studies allows us to explore attitudes towards the past underlying both musicology and music composition/performance. It illuminates the ways nostalgia is used by creators and audiences, as well...

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