News
Jim Sykes, Associate Professor in Music, wins 2019 Bruno Nettl Award
from the Society of Ethnomusicology for his book The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka (2018, Oxford University Press). The award aims “to recognize an outstanding publication contributing to or dealing with the history of the field of ethnomusicology, broadly defined, or with the general character, problems, and methods of ethnomusicology.”
Ph.D. Candidates in Musicology Present at 2019 American Musicology Society Conference:
Charles Crichton Shrader: “‘The Labor of the Madman’: Charlatanry at the Piano.” Bess Xintong Liu: “‘The Timpani Beats just Hit on My Heart!’ Music, Friendship, and Diplomacy in the 1973 Philadelphia Orchestra’s China Tour.” Tristan Paré-Morin (Ph.D. Musicology, CL19): “Reassessing Nostalgia(s): Postwar Memorialization and the Controversial Tombeau de Debussy.”
Juan Castrillon's (Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology) film REHAVI
(Timekeepers) is among the official selection of Cinemistica International Film Festival and will be screened in Granada, Spain. November 7th to 30th, 2019.
Winnie W C Lai (Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology) presents paper at an International Sound Studies Workshop
Winnie's paper: "Sound Acts and Sonic Subversion: Interaction between Functional Urban Sounds and Populations" will be presented at Sound in Motion--International Workshop in the University of Bern, Switzerland, September 20-21, 2019. Link to the workshop: https://sound-density-environment.com/workshop-sound-in-motion/.
Deirdre Loughridge, Musicology Ph.D. '11, Receives Institute for Advanced Study Membership
Deirdre Loughridge has been awarded a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ for her book project Sounding Human.
Juan Castrillon (Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology) presents paper at an International Symposium
His paper: "Yurupari Stereo: Exchange of Listenings, Digital Media and Repatriation of Indigenous Musical Archives in Uaupés" at International Symposium Music, Tradition and Creativity in the Digital Era organized by Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá Colombia, October 11-12, 2019. Juan Castrillon also has a film in progress ~KIRAIÑIA (Long Flutes) which is part of his dissertation and was selected to be presented at the symposium "Film as Ethnography, Activism, and Public Work in Ethnomusicology” at the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusi
Choral Open House, Monday, August 26 at 4:00 PM
Attention all singers! Anyone interested in learning more about the vocal and choral opportunities in the Music Department is invited to a Choral Open House to meet our ensemble directors, find out what kinds of repertoire you will sing, and do a little reading. The open house will be on Monday, August 26th at 4:00pm in Rose Recital Hall in Fisher-Bennett Hall (4th floor). We hope to see you there!
2019-2020 Auditions for all Departmental Ensembles Announced
The Department of Music announces auditions for all departmental ensembles for the 2019-2020 academic year. We offer eleven ensembles led by active professionals. They include the:
Senior music major Leo Sarbanes profiled in Penn Today
SEE HERE >> https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-senior-Leo-Sarbanes-intern-Opera-Philadelphia Images courtesy of Penn Today.
Keisuke Yamada, Ph.d. candidate in Ethnomusicology, publishes peer-reviewed article in Japanese Studies.
His article entitled "On the Genealogy of Kokujin: Critical Thinking about the Formation of Bankoku and Modern Japanese Perceptions of Blackness" appears in Japanese Studies.