Penn Music Colloquium Series

Wadada Leo Smith December

Alejandra Bronfman Vibroacústica: Music and Remediated Violence in Puerto Rico November 1, 2022 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Room 101

Cesar Favila Nuns, Chant, and the Voice of God in New Spain September 13, 2022 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Room 101

Thomas Meadowcroft Composing Under the Sign of Commodity March 29, 2022 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Room 101  

Annea Lockwood Working with Rivers March 22, 2022 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Room 101  

Anna Schultz Of Magic Lanterns and Kirttan Bands: Technology, spectacle, and performance in colonial India  February 22, 2022 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building

Amanda Weidman Brought to Life by the Voice: Thinking with Playback February 8, 2022 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Room 101  

Eric Drott A New Political Economy of Music? February 1, 2022 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:00 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Room 101  

Roshanak Kheshti Pocodisco: The Sonic Performativity of Grief, Grievance and Joy in Diaspora November 2, 2021 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building

Remi Chiu Illness, Metaphor, and Bells: Campanology Under COVID-19 October 5, 2021 (Tuesday) — 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm Lerner Center Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Room 101  

The Emergence of Sō-on in Industrial Japan: Kōjō Ongaku and An/aesthetic Strategies for Factory Management Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm This is a virtual event.

Gabriela Lena Frank American pianist and composer  

Carol Muller "Ethnomusicological Becoming: Deep Listening and the Erotics of Fieldwork" Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm This is a virtual
 event. Register for details.  

Daphne Brooks Director of Graduate Studies; William R. Kenan, Jr. Prof of African American Studies, and Prof. of Theater Stds, American Stds, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Stds  

Christina Baade Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University   

Blurred Boundaries Pamela Z will share her work and her process, and will discuss the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice.

Stefan Helmreich Professor and Elting E. Morison Chair; Head, Anthropology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology  

Glenda Goodman Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania  

The Department of Music’s main Colloquium Series showcases new research by leading scholars across the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and composition both in the United States and internationally.

The Department of Music’s main Colloquium Series showcases new research by leading scholars across the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and composition both in the United States and internationally.

 The Department of Music is pleased to present Elizabeth Upton, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles Lucrezia Borgia’s Voice

 The Department of Music is pleased to present Alex Chávez, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre DameVerses and Flows: Migrant Lives and the Sounds of Crossing

 The Department of Music is pleased to present Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Professor of Music, Rutgers University

"Realism's Staccato" 

Penn Music Colloquium presentsEmma Dillon, King's College London"The Romance of Song" Free and open to the public

Vanessa Williams, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania"'Near to reality, but not quite':  Lena Ashwell's Concerts at the Front during the First World War" ----------------------- 

Penn Music Colloquium presentsSiel Agugliaro: PhD student, MusicologyUniversity of Pennsylvania

Penn Music Colloquium presentsReiko Fueting, compositionManhattan School of Music"Music is Time is Memory"

Penn Music Colloquium presents Martha FeldmanUniversity of Chicago"The Phantom Castrato:  Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Twentieth-Century Rome"

Please join us for a very special Penn Music Colloquium with esteemed composer, John Harbison. Free and open to the public.

This workshop will meet weekly for three weeks in February 2014 to discuss the subject of violence in relation to aesthetics of sound.

Music Building, Room 1025:15pm"Longing for the Sublime: Jewish Self-Consciousness and Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Biedermeier Berlin"Free and open to the public

"The Melodization of Rhythm: Afro-Cuban Folklore in Contemporary Cuban Popular Pianism"Free and open to the public

5:15pmRoom 102, Music BuildingFree and open to the public