Penn Music Colloquium Series

The Department of Music's main Colloquium Series showcases new research by leading scholars in music and sound studies and composers both in the United States and internationally.  All Music Colloquia takes place in Room 101 of the Lerner Center on Tuesdays at 5:15 PM.

Fall 2023

October 3: Nina Eidsheim, Professor of Musicology and Humanities, UC Los Angeles

October 24: Brian Kane, Associate Professor of Music and Film and Media Studies, Yale University

November 28: Alessandra Ciucci, Associate Professor of Music, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University

December 12: George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Composition & Historical Musicology, Columbia University

Spring 2024

January 30: Steven Takasugi, Composer, associate of Harvard University Department of Music

February 13: Gavin Steingo, Associate Professor of Music, Princeton University

March 12: M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies, UC San Diego

April 9: Mark Burford, R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music, Reed College

Upcoming Events



Performing Preservation: White Women’s Voices and Old South Black Song

Colloquium Lecture by Mark Buford
Apr 9, 2024 at - | Penn Music Building - Lerner 101, 201 S. 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

This talk considers inscrutable contradictions in the reception of three early twentieth-century white southern women expressly committed to preserving antebellum Black vernacular song by performing the voices of their childhood “mammies.”

Past Events



Roshanak Kheshti

Pocodisco: The Sonic Performativity of Grief, Grievance and Joy in Diaspora
Nov 2, 2021 at - | Penn Music Building - Lerner 101, 201 S. 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104



Remi Chiu

Illness, Metaphor, and Bells: Campanology Under COVID-19
Oct 5, 2021 at - | Penn Music Building - Lerner 101, 201 S. 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104



The Emergence of Sō-on in Industrial Japan: Kōjō Ongaku and An/aesthetic Strategies for Factory Management

Keisuke Yamada, University of Pittsburgh; Andrew Niess, University of Pennsylvania
Apr 13, 2021 at - | Virtual Event



Gabriela Lena Frank

Apr 6, 2021 at - | Virtual Event



Carol Muller

"Ethnomusicological Becoming: Deep Listening and the Erotics of Fieldwork"
Mar 16, 2021 at - | Virtual Event



Daphne Brooks

“‘See My Face On the Other Side’: Cecile McLorin Salvant and the Art of Catching Up with Geeshie & Elvie”
Jan 26, 2021 at - | Virtual Event



Christina Baade

"Vera Lynn in Nashville (1977): White Working Class Femininity and Transatlantic Affinities"
Nov 17, 2020 at - | Virtual Event