Dear all,
Newcastle University's ICMuS presents the next instalment of our research seminar series via Zoom with Prof. Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago) and their talk: On Music Scholarship in Real Time.
March 17th at 4pm (London/GMT)
Free ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/icmus-research-seminar-series-prof-philip-v-bohlman-uni-of-chicago-tickets-140260955293
All the best,
Samiran Culbert
ICMuS Research Seminar Coordinator
Full abstract:
"I can't breathe. Say her name. Black Lives Matter. The planet is burning." The soundscape of the world challenges music scholarship in 2021 like never before. The time and place in which we encounter music sound crisis, and the call for response in real time arises from all who cohabit our institutions of learning, engage with our writing and performance, and live around the corner, all musicians who share the sonic real time with us. Inescapable is the reminder that we have been here before, and that the real time of our music scholarship is all of a piece: there is no denying that racism is systemic, and that as such it is part of our heritage; pervasive inequalities shape the very musical thought that we have so long shared.
In my Newcastle talk I examine the attributes of the systemic and the pervasive and seek to locate them in a music scholarship of real time. The concept of real time I employ in my contribution is one that forms historically, ethnographically, and systematically, becoming recognizable as what I call "global musicological moments." Racism and inequality, therefore, reside in the systemic connections between past and present, no less than spreading across cultural and national borders. I hope to apply the discussions that open in the Newcastle research seminar to ongoing research and reference projects, among them my introductory texts to world music and ethnomusicology, that are currently underway. In the course of the paper, I focus particularly on four conditions of the musicological moment in 2021, and that form the fabric for concerted response from the fields of music scholarship: 1) the racism called out as systemic in the United States and manifest globally; 2) the forced migration of human societies; 3) the coronavirus pandemic; and 4) climate change. When these conditions together, connected and intersectional, become the subjects of music scholarship, they ask us to think anew about the real time sounded by the musicological moments we together, as music scholars, share.
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