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Spring 1999 Colloquium Series |
1999 - 2000 marked the second year working on the colloquium series and the first year the funding was made possible with a grant from Sue Morrison Boatman and AT & T. During the fall semester of 1999 we hosted Dr. Dale A. Olsen from FSU who presented, "Music as Power / Ethnomusicology as Advocacy: The case of the Warao Indians of Venezuela." His abstract is available below.
In the spring of 2000 we hosted two presentations. The first presentation was with David Schiller from the University of Georgia on February fourth. His lecture was titled, "Unorthodox Alterities: Allen Ginsberg's Poem 'Kaddish' and Leonard Bernsteing's Symphony No. 3, 'Kaddish'." His abstract is below.
The second guest in the spring was Jeffrey Perry from Louisiana State University who presented on April seventh. His lecture was titled, "Paganini Hero: The Caprices Op. 1 and Romanticism." His abstract is below.
- Colloquium Series dates:
- Dale A. Olsen
- David Schiller
- Jeffrey Perry
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Professor Dale A. Olsen, Florida State University |
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"Music as Power / Ethnomusicology as Advocacy: The case of the Warao Indians of Venezuela." |
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The traditional use of music among the Warao Indians of the Orinoco River deltaic rainforest is to provide the Warao with supernatural power to inflict illness and death, cure and heal, protect, cause rain, and educate. Yet, the Warao suffer from and have no control over the powers of governments and businesses as oil and drug cartels invade their part of the fragile rainforest. This lecture will introduce and teach about the former and discuss possible solutions for the latter. |
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Professor David Schiller from University of Georgia |
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Lecture: February 4, 2000. Time: TBA Location: Music Building room 214 |
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Unorthodox Alerities: Allen Ginsberg's Poem, "Kaddish" and Leonard Bernstein's Symphony, "Kaddish" |
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For both Ginsberg and Bernstein, writing and composing before the advent of an organized Gay liberation or Gay rights movement, the Kaddish provided a means to affirm alternative identities, or "unorthodox alerities," in opposition to prevailing cultural norms and yet still Jewish. Re-hearing and re-reading their "Kaddishes" in the context of recent gay and feminist contributions to Jewish thought reveals new layers of liberatory potential among their often-bitter echoes of the past. |
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Professor Jeffrey Perry from Louisiana State University |
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Lecture: April 7, 2000. Time: TBA Location: Music Building Room 214 |
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Paganini Hero: The Caprice Op. 1 and Romanticism |
| This paper focuses on the effects of certain cognitive structures on musical perception and analysis, and, in the process, on some aspects of the politicizing of these activities. The project examines responses to emerging free jazz, in particular works by Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. These statements, collected from reviews and articles in several leading jazz journals, from record liner notes, and other sources from the period 1958-64, indicate that those who felt this music exceeded cherished boundaries had more difficulties perceiving its features (or perhaps had less motivation to note its characteristics) than those who felt it remained within the bounds of recognizable musical categories or broke through constricting technical limits. Observing musicians and listeners trying to deal with this individual example of a new music reminds us of reactions to new developments throughout the course of music history. The paper is designed to stimulate us to think about how we all position ourselves in some way with respect to music, and how that position colors what we take away from that music. |
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