2016 Tsou Scholar 艾莉米. Hisama, Columbia University
Thursday, October 13, 7 p.m.
Helen Filene Ladd Hall, 赞克尔音乐中心

Lecture: "Passages: Modernism and Tradition in Transnational American 音乐s."

This lecture explores the work of Bay Area musicians Jon Jang, Francis Wong, and Ratha Jim (RJ) Sin in the context of passages—of geography, time, and the body. 联合创始人 of Asian Improv Records, the influential independent Asian American recording label, Jang and Wong have in their decades-long collaboration as composers, improvisers, and instrumentalists proffered numerous works giving brilliant sonic testimony to polycultural Afro-Asian America. Rapper, poet, and singer RJ Sin compellingly expresses through music and word a distinctly Cambodian-American worldview that also illuminates the struggles and hopes of many in US working-class immigrant communities. 建筑 upon the writings of 黛博拉黄, Jonathan H. X. Lee, and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Hisama considers works from 1985 to 2015 that bridge the modern and traditional while they powerfully invoke, represent, and recall those who have travelled, traversed, and 通过了.

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Ellie Hisama is a professor of music at Columbia University. Her professional interests include 20th- and 21st-century music, American music, popular music, gender and feminist studies, critical studies of music, race and ethnicity, and the social and political roles of music. Hisama is the author of Gendering 音乐al Modernism: The 音乐 of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam 基甸 也是 Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American 音乐. She has received major fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and is a member 的 governing board of Columbia University’s Society of Fellows, founding editor 的 Journal 的 Society for American 音乐, and editor-in-chief of Women and 音乐: A Journal of Gender and Culture.
 
Professor Hisama earned her PhD in music theory at the City University of New York, studying with Carl Schachter and Joseph Straus. She is a past director 的 H. 威利 Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American 音乐 at Brooklyn College. Hisama已经 also taught at Harvard University, the Graduate Center 的 City University of New York, 连接icut College, Ohio State University, and the University of Virginia.