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Decolonizing the Campus Humanities

Edit The American Spectator 09 Jun 2016
You could trundle down to New York University in Gotham to marvel at UCLA music professor Tamara Levitz’s cri de coeur, “Decolonizing the American Musicological Society,” given as the centerpiece at a recent high-level colloquium.. In the past decade, musicologists have sought to make the American Musicological Society more inclusive … on the ......

Avant-garde from Below: A Talk by Clemens Marschall – June 21 (NYU - New York University)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. NYU - New York University) ... Marschall was born 1985 in Austria, has a PhD in musicology; works as journalist (Ö1, Datum, Wiener Zeitung), author (Edition Patrick Frey, Verlag Anton Pustet, Ventil, Milena, monochrom), publisher (Rokko's Adventures) and curator (Art's Birthday/Funkhaus Wien); musician/performer (Museumsquartier Wien), DJ (Venice Film Festival) and promoter (Thee Oh Sees, Georg Friedrich, Rummelsnuff) ... (noodl....

SysMus, the International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (University of Jyväskylä)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
SysMus, or the International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology, is a student-run series of conferences for students of systematic musicology. SysMus promotes systematic musicology as an interdisciplinary field by giving students who study music from computational, psychological, social and other perspectives the opportunity to interact with each other and with successful professionals in their field....

Being and becoming—complexities of the African identity (University of South Africa)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. University of South Africa) ... !Kauru provides a platform for African contemporary artists and cultural practitioners to engage around a showcase of contemporary art from the continent ... Being and becoming ... The opening was attended by among others, the Chair of Unisa's Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology Department, Dr Nombe Mpako, and senior managing director of the Department of Arts and Culture, Charles Mabaso ... (noodl....

The sound of silence: Why aren't Australia's female composers being heard? (Edith Cowan University)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
(Source. Edith Cowan University) ... Since 1987, 47 composers have been commissioned to write for the Australia Ensemble - the nation's leading chamber music ensemble ... The authors of this article are Sally Macarthur Senior Lecturer in Musicology Western Sydney University, Cat Hope Associate Dean (Research) Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University, Dawn Bennett Professor of Higher Education Curtin University....

First Friday Art Exhibitions Present Talented Artists In all Art Forms at the Merc and the Truax on June 3, 2016 (City of Temecula, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. City of Temecula, CA). TEMECULA, CA - Take a walk into the creative ambiance of First Fridays in Old Town Temecula Friday, June 3, 2016, from 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm ... Refreshments will be served and music will be provided by Musicology. The Gallery at The Merc is located at 42051 Main Street, Temecula ... Musicology will perform live music at this event ... (noodl. 33840171) ....

Maestro Dingaan - a Genius of a Conductor

Edit All Africa 27 May 2016
[Ghanaian Chronicle] Conducting a musical piece with either a church choir or a singing group on stage is a key element in musicology. It is not an easy job, but a difficult and arduous one that must be accomplished with perfection ... ....

Justin Bieber is being sued for allegedly copying his hit 'Sorry' from another artist

Edit Business Insider 27 May 2016
Justin Bieber doesn't have much to complain about when it comes to his latest hit album, but that may be changing ... 1 song "Sorry," according to Entertainment Weekly ... Dienel also claims in the suit that she and her colleagues sent a letter to Bieber's team informing them of the infringement, with a musicology report, but got no response ... ....

Awesome Tapes From Africa Interview: Eyes Of The World

Edit Skiddle 26 May 2016
That's an interesting question in context with the DJing thing, because DJs are so the opposite of that, right? Well, the DJing came by accident and the main focus for me has always been complete albums because I studied ethno-musicology and I'm really interested in the ethnographic and anthropological background, where this music is coming from and why this musician made this music....

Nine University of Minnesota students receive Fulbright Awards (University of Minnesota)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. University of Minnesota). Nine students and alumni of the University of Minnesota have been awarded grants to study and teach abroad during the 2016-17 academic year by the Fulbright U.S ... candidate in Musicology, will research the role of women in music activism and patronage in Norway, looking specifically to the work of Nina Hagerup Grieg and Theodora Cormontan ... in Musicology from the University of Minnesota in 2013 ... (noodl....

La Valletta – Europe Day celebrated with concert of rare pieces by Antonino Reggio (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source ... 2016-05-23 ... Director Schirmo then passed the floor to Prof Anthony Hart - a member of the Italian Society of Musicology and of the International Musicological Society, who spent 15 years of his life studying the life and work of the Italian harpsichordist Monsignor Antonino Reggio - praising the English musicologist for his intense research work on the talented 18 Century Sicilian priest ... (noodl. 33745996) ....

Eurovision as Politics

Edit CounterPunch 20 May 2016
“For me, it’s a bit sad that there are so many people associating this song with politics.”. -Jamala, Eurovision victor, 2016 ... Were the Australians the shock absorbers in a polarised field? ... In a reminder about how erroneous it can be to render all musical entrants zombies to the broader national program, the duo gave the audiences in Riga a display of faux-lesbian pop eroticism, whatever that is taken to mean in musicological circles ... ....

The History of Pop Music Rivalries in 10 Songs

Edit Newsweek 20 May 2016
Kanye vs. Taylor Swift. Blur vs. Oasis. Axl Rose vs. pretty much everybody. In his new book, Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me, former Grantland and A.V. Club scribe Steven Hyden mines the history of music rivalries not just for cultural criticism but for deep philosophical truths ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... Prince had come back—he did the Musicology tour, which was really successful; he was on the Super Bowl a couple years after that ... Musicology did fairly well ... ....
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