ethniomusicology Archives

Ruthie Meadows, “Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà”

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES BUILDING, ROOM 2203. Ruthie Meadows is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno. In the first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria, Ruthie Meadows explores how Ifá practitioners in Cuba, Nigeria and the Caribbean are reshaping Yorubá rituals through cross-cultural exchange. 12p—1:30p. Free

Valente Lecture: Marié Abe, “The Politics and Poetics of Mishearing and South-South Imaginaries”

EVERSON HALL, ROOM 266, UC DAVIS. Marié Abe is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. She is a scholar of music and sound with ongoing ethnographic commitments in Japan, Okinawa, Ethiopia, and the US. She is committed to public ethnomusicology through curatorial practice, media, and community engagement. 4p—5:30p.

Althea SullyCole, kora

ANN E. PITZER CENTER. Althea SullyCole studied her primary instrument, the kora — a 21-stringed West African harp — under korists Yacouba Sissoko and Edou Manga. She is a multi instrumentalist, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist from New York City. From 2024 to 26, Althea will be performing research on an Award for Faculty from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which, among other things, will fund fieldwork in Mali and Guinea in support of her scholarship on historical collections of musical instruments from the Mandé region of West Africa. 5p – 6:16p. Free.

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Ruthie Meadows, “Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà”

Valente Lecture: Marié Abe, “The Politics and Poetics of Mishearing and South-South Imaginaries”

Althea SullyCole, kora

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