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Gavin Steingo, Princeton University
Cosmic Whispers: Kapwani Kiwanga's Alien Speculations
Free and open to all.
The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University's Musics Abroad Seminar Series will take a global and comparative approach to music and mobility present and past. The seminar will examine case studies of immigration and diaspora communities; explore theories and methods for the comparative study of musics outside their home environments; investigate human and virtual channels through which musics travel; and take account of new, hybrid styles that have emerged as a result of mobility. In sum, the seminar will investigate the roles that music plays in transmitting and sustaining aspects of social and cultural life in domains ranging from religious orders to popular entertainment.
ORGANIZER(S): Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
EVENT WEBSITE: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/musics-abroad