World Music Central, an online publication, is seeking album and book reviewers as well as contributors interested in writing in depth articles about folk music instruments, artists, musical genres, etc. We cover all types of roots music under the world music umbrella, from traditional folk to world fusion and folktronica.Although we are unable to compensate writers, we are able to provide digital downloads (most publicists won’t send physical promos anymore) of promo albums. Furthermore, we will include a biographical footer where we can add links to your personal or institutional websites. Please write to aromero@ibiblio.org or info@worldmusiccentral.org
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The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology presents the following panel discussion as part of the Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series.
Wed., May 17, 1-3pm; Room B544, Schoenberg Music Building, and Livestream
Hear and learn the hidden queer histories of L.A.’s electronic/dance music (EDM) cultural geographies. Scholarship on Los Angeles’s EDM community started with Simon Reynold’s (1999) ethnography of the 1990s Rave scenes. However, missing from this historical account are the stories of Black, brown, and queer communities who participated in and created EDM events throughout the Los Angeles area. The panelists will discuss their experiences of how electronic dance music helped them navigate the underground and mainstream spaces in the Metropolitan area.
Panel Moderator: Blair Black, doctoral candidate in The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Dept. of Ethnomusicology
Panelists:
Kumi James, Ph.D. Candidate & Cultural Event Producer
Irene Urías, Cultural Event Producer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Middlebury College, MIDDLEBURY, VT — The Department of Music at Middlebury College invites applicants for a one-year position in composition and songwriting beginning fall 2023. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in Western music traditions and a commitment to undergraduate liberal arts pedagogy. We seek an experienced and innovative instructor with abilities to teach courses that enrich our departmental course offerings and contribute to the college-wide curriculum, including the winter term curriculum. Candidates should provide evidence of excellent teaching and cutting-edge scholarship or artistic work. A doctorate in composition is required.
Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research and where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. The College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. At Middlebury, we strive to make our campus a respectful, engaged community that embraces difference, with all the complexity and individuality each person brings. With your application materials provide a separate, one-page statement on inclusion that addresses how your teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and/or community service demonstrate a commitment to and/or evidence of engaging with issues of diversity and inclusion. Through Interfolio submit: a letter of application addressed to Professor Damascus Kafumbe, Department of Music Chair; a curriculum vitae; undergraduate and graduate transcripts; a statement of teaching philosophy; a statement of research; a sample of scholarly or artistic production; and three current letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to teaching ability. More information is available at http://apply.interfolio.com/124816. Review of applications will begin May 5, 2023, and will continue until the position has been filled.
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information on our background check policy can be found here: http://go.middlebury.edu/backgroundchecks.
UO Ph.D. candidates Kendra Taylor & Olivia Salzman-Coon made the cover of this spring’s Oregon Music Educator! Join us in congratulating them for their hard work!
Lecturer of Liberal StudiesDepartment of MusicThe University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a one-year non-tenure-track appointment as Lecturer of Music, to begin on August 15, 2023.
The Lecturer’s primary responsibility is to teach large sections of liberal studies courses titled “The Arts in Society: Music,” “Local Arts/Humanities: Music in U.S. Communities,” and “Global Arts/Humanities: Music in Global Communities,” in which students survey the position of music in selected cultures from local and global viewpoints. Students experience a wide range of ideas and styles and move toward thoughtful, critical, and creative listening, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the place of music in reflecting, shaping and critiquing society. The specific subject matter of these courses varies, depending on the instructor’s interest and background. Additional duties may be assigned commensurate with the candidate’s expertise and the department’s curricular needs.
Candidates must hold a master’s degree in music. Previous success in teaching at the collegiate level, specifically in working with large groups of students, is preferred. Candidates should demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching a diverse population of first-generation college students within the context of an urban research university. Applicants whose teaching incorporates a global perspective and a commitment to equity and belonging in higher education are particularly encouraged to apply. The position comes with a competitive salary.
UNC Charlotte, the second largest of the sixteen institutions within the University of North Carolina system and the largest university in a vibrant metropolitan area of 2.5 million people, offers broad educational opportunities to over 31,000 students, 41% of whom come from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds. The Department of Music is a dynamic community of nationally recognized artists, scholars, and pedagogues who celebrate diversity as an essential characteristic of healthy, productive, and successful lives as musical advocates and professionals.
Applicants must send a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, three current letters of recommendation, contact information for five references (postal and email addresses, as well as telephone numbers), and a teaching statement that addresses the candidate’s approach to teaching general education classes, how they would facilitate a culturally competent classroom, and what assets they bring to serving a diverse student population at an urban research campus. Teaching artifacts and academic transcripts may be requested at a later date. Send all application materials to:
Liberal Studies Search Committee c/o Lisa Newman (lnewman@uncc.edu)
Department of MusicThe University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City BoulevardCharlotte, NC 28223
The review of applications will begin May 15, 2023, and will remain open until suitable candidates are identified. Any questions or individuals with disabilities desiring accommodation in the application process should be referred to Lisa Newman.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is an AA/EOE and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained. We celebrate diversity that includes, but is not limited to ability/disability, age, culture, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. UNC Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups. All finalists are subject to criminal background checks.
These intensive courses have trained thousands of musicians and teachers of various levels and contexts, including K-12 teachers and tertiary-level professors, to know more about the world’s musical traditions and how to teach them. This year’s offerings include online courses on “Teaching Music/Teaching Culture” and one for music teachers in international schools, as well as in-person courses at West Virginia University, University of St. Thomas, and Université Laval (in French). Enroll by the Early Bird Deadline of May 15 to receive discounted registration for select courses. Learn more here.
We are so excited to welcome you this Thursday April 27 in the Knight Library Browsing Room from 2pm to 3:30pm for a talk by Catherine Malabou that the NMCC is cosponsoring.
Catherine Malabou is a French philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and professor of modern European philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London. She is known for her work on plasticity, a concept she culled from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which has proved fertile within contemporary economic, political, and social discourses. Widely regarded as one of the most exciting figures in what has been called “The New French Philosophy,” Malabou’s research and writing covers a range of figures and issues, including the work of Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, and Derrida; the relationship between philosophy, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis; and concepts of essence and difference within feminism.
To read Malabou’s latest book, check out Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
THEME Grad Students!
Hopefully, you have heard about this Wednesday’s roundtable discussion with University of Chicago ethnomusicologist Jessica Baker.
There is a pizza lunch for grad students at noon on this Wednesday at Pegasus Pizza for those who would like to meet her ahead of time and chat.
Ideally, you can email Dr. Wolf (ewolf2@uoregon.edu) to let him know you are coming so he has an idea of how much to order at the start, but don’t let that stop you from stopping by. If you think that your dissertation/thesis would benefit from a more direct one-on-one with Dr. Baker, please let Ed Wolf know. There may still be some availability for a chat before the discussion!
Consider tuning in to these sessions from Tulane University Library!
Please join Tulane University Libraries for Invisible Influencers: Examining Absence in Popular Narratives, a 3-part series of events inspired by the absence of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges from popular historical narratives and the musical canon. This series examines presence and absence in popular historical narratives as well as how they are sustained or disrupted.
We have brought together an incredible group of locally, nationally, and internationally celebrated scholars, scholar-performers, librarians, and archivists to examine these questions with us.
Part 1: Understanding Representation in the Historical Canon
April 20, 1:30-3:00pm CST
Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall room 100a & Zoom (registration required for zoom link)
Panelists: Denise Frazier, Givonna Joseph, Demi Ward, Rosanne Adderley
With the figure of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges as a guiding through line, this panel will examine how race, specifically Black people/people of the African diaspora, is and is not present in the popular historical imagination.
This event is co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Link to register: https://tulane.libcal.com/event/10627035
Part 2: Archives, Libraries, and the Academy
April 25, 3:30-4:30pm CST
Dixon Annex, Recital Hall & Zoom (registration required for zoom link)
Panelists: Sakinah Davis, Liz McMahon, Leon Miller, and Rachel Stein
This panel will examine the interdependencies between libraries, archives, and the academy as well as their power collectively or individually to perpetuate and disrupt popular historical narratives.
Link to register: https://tulane.libcal.com/event/10627190
Part 3: Guided Listening to the Music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges
April 28, 2:00-3:00pm CST
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, room 603
Facilitators: Courtney Bryan, Tara Melvin
Join a guided listening experience to judge for yourself the musical merits of Joseph Bologne and where he should reside in the musical canon.
Link to register: https://tulane.libcal.com/event/10639763
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