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Musicology Distinguished Lectures (2012)
Friday, February 3, 2012, 5:00 p.m., 506 Burton Memorial Tower
Professor Susan Thomas, University of Georgia
"Transnational Ventriloquism: Hearing Voices in Contemporary Cuban Popular Song"
A new style of hybrid Cuban music has developed since the 1990s, drawing not only on Cuban and international instrumental styles but also on vocal techniques, timbres, and articulations drawn from non-Cuban artists and, increasingly, iconic Cuban voices. This talk explores how such ventriloquisms have become central to the "voluptuousness of meaning" (Barthes 1997) of contemporary Cuban popular song.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 5:00 p.m., 506 Burton Memorial Tower
Professor Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
"The Three Architectures of Film Music"
The talk outlines three architectural ways of thinking about film music: music supports the narrative architecture of a movie in the way that columns, archways, and doorways buttress the structure of buildings; music provides its own sonic architecture, constructing pathways for the ear through the unfolding of the film, and music also works with or against the physical architecture of sets and settings. The core examples come from the classic era of Hollywood, with excursions to other cinema systems for comparative purposes.
Ethel V. Curry Distinguished Lecture in Musicology
In addition to lectures offered by visiting scholars, the Musicology Department boasts an endowed lecture series, created by H. Robert Reynolds in honor of his mother, Ethel V. Curry.
Past Musicology Lectures
Interdisciplinary Music Forum
IMF is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that fosters conversation among faculty and graduate students who work with music in their research. Lectures are open to all, and workshops are intended for graduate students. For more information, please contact
Sarah Sutter (Slavic Languages and Literatures; scsutter@umich.edu) or Jessica Getman (Musicology; jessgetman@gmail.com).
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