A Lightening Round of Summer Research and Beginning of the Year Happy Hour The UNC Music Research Forum hosts invited lectures by distinguished music scholars from around the world and informal research presentations by members of our department and colleagues … Read more
"Desert Specters: Haunting Myths of the Spectacular Bomb in Opera and Film" presented by Assistant Professor Dr. Anna B. Gatdula Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) and Peter Sellars and John Adams’ Doctor Atomic (2005/2018) are spectacles that produce and reproduce narratives of the United States’ … Read more
“Thickening Something: Convergent Music, Affect, and Sociability on the Dancefloor” Presented by Dr. Luis-Manuel Garcia-Mispireta (University of Birmingham) NOTE: This event is co-sponsored with Duke University’s Department of Music. It will be held at 4:00 pm in Biddle Music Building at … Read more
Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle presents the 2024 James W. Pruett Lecture in Music and Culture “You Can’t Tell It Like I Can: Mary Lou Williams, Black Nationalism, and the Re-framing of Jazz’s History” One of the significant aspects of contemporary … Read more
"Music at the Limits of Political Efficacy" Dr. Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane University and the National Humanities Center This talk identifies four principal themes that arose from a “political turn” in music studies at the turn of the twenty-first century: dissent, … Read more
"Afrobeats and the Popular Incredible in Nigeria" Dr. Adeshina Afolayan, University of Ibadan and the National Humanities Center Afrobeats, as the current preeminent articulation of popular music in Nigeria, participates in and embodies the reign of the postcolonial incredible in Nigeria. In … Read more
"Castrato Remix" Dr. Bonnie Gordon, University of Virginia In 1565 Guglielmo Gonzaga sent his ambassador, the humanist scholar Girolamo Negri, on a fruitless mission to look for castrati. After one died and others were too expensive, a frustrated Negri decided … Read more
