Matthew Morrison | Afrological Perspectives on Timbre & Orchestration
Join us for the next ACTOR Speaker Series event, Thursday October 12 at 12pm EDT on Zoom! Presented by Matthew Morrison the talk is entitled “Blackface, Black Sounds, and Black String band Music” Learn more with the link!
https://www.actorproject.org/events-calendar
How the cello became a vehicle for arranging Haitian songs.
Join us for the next ACTOR Speaker Series event, Thursday October 5 at 12pm EDT on Zoom! Presented by Leyla McCalla, the talk is entitled “How the cello became a vehicle for arranging Haitian songs.”
Leyla Maccalla | Afrological Perspectives on Timbre and Orchestration
Join us for the next ACTOR Speaker Series event, Thursday October 5 at 12pm EDT on Zoom! Presented by Leyla McCalla, the talk is entitled “How the cello became a vehicle for arranging Haitian songs.”
https://www.actorproject.org/events-calendar
The complete Afrological Speaker Series
The complete Afrological Speaker Series is now available to stream on youtube! Watch all 6 presentations
Adile Khumalo's talk
Speaker Series - Marvin McNeill
The next ACTOR Speaker Series event is happening Monday, February 20 at 2pm! Presented by Marvin McNeill (Emory University) the talk is entitled "“Do You Hear What I Hear?”: An Afrological Approach to the Study of Sonic Representations from the African American Band Tradition.”
ACTOR Speaker Series: Kevin Holt
Save the Date! In this coming ACTOR Speaker Series event, Dr. Kevin Holt will present a talk entitled "Crunk, Trap, and Compositional Representations of Embodied Experiences." Join us for his Zoom presentation on January 18 at 12pm EST.
ACTOR Speaker Series
SAVE THE DATE! The Sub-Saharan African and Afro-Diasporic subgroup of the Diversity working group are pleased to formally announce the Speaker Series: Afrological Perspectives on Timbre and Orchestration. The series, spearheaded by Jason Winikoff, Joshua Rosner, and Jay Marchand Knight, will take place over the 2022-23 academic year and will launch with a talk by Dr. Bibian Kalinde entitled, “Unraveling timbre in the music of the marriage ceremony of the Chewa and Bemba in Zambia.” Other invited guests include Kevin Holt, Andile Khumalo, Joel Larue Smith, Marvin McNeill, and Stephanie Shonekan. Bibian Kalinde’s talk will take place on Friday 30 September 2022 from 12:00pm-1:15pm Eastern (6:00pm-7:15pm in Zambia) and will be given over Zoom. Information about links to attend the event will be sent out closer to the date of the event.