Hip-Hop in Times of Pandemic and Protest听
Art by Chetna Mehta @mosaiceye
March 3, 4, 10, 17, and 24
All Online, Free, and Open to the Public
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Hip-Hop in Times of Pandemic and Protest听is a series of four Wednesday evening events in March, 2021 that explore听the impacts, challenges, and possibilities of the current moment on Hip-Hop.听 Focusing on issues of representation, politics, performance, and pedagogy, these events are a collaboration with听Kalonji Nzinga, Director of the听Race and Popular Culture Laboratory (RAPLab)听and have been funded by the generous support of a Roser Grant and the cooperation of CU Boulder鈥檚 Center for听Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS)听and the听Department of Theatre and Dance.听听In collaboration with this series, the Latin American Studies Center and the Musicology Graduate 麻豆淫院 Association will host a presentation听and talkback听on Indigenous Hip Hop on Thursday, March 4.听
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Persevering Legacy: Spring 2021 Concert
Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 pm (MST)
This event will be available to watch online, .
Free and Open to Everyone
Persevering Legacy champions a unique, catalytic collaboration that elevates stories of historically marginalized, diverse female composers to align classical music with social activism.
The College of Music will partner with the American Music Research Center (AMRC) and Diverse Musicians' Alliance to present this unique performance event. This free performance features College of Music students performing music written and composed by historically marginalized, diverse female composers.
Even though we are not gathering in person, you can still enjoy this performance from the comfort of your home.听Stream this performance Tuesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. MST.
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Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz鈥檚 Az煤car and Queer of Color Survival听
A Virtual Presentation on Zoom with Kristie Soares
Monday, November听2, 5:30 pm on Zoom (MST)
Free and Open to Everyone
The American Music Research Center is proud to听introduce听its new Counterpoints Lecture series featuring distiguished music scholars from across CU campus.听Dr. Kristie Soares will inaugurate the series with 鈥淒ancing With Death: Celia Cruz鈥檚 Az煤car and Queer of Color Survival.鈥�
This talk听explores the evolution of Celia Cruz鈥檚 (picture left) signature catchphrase听az煤car听[sugar]听from her early career with Fania Records, to her later music with Sony Music, and finally to its posthumous adoption by queer fans of color both at her funeral and in the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre. In doing so the talk argues听that听az煤car听represented听an embodied way to negotiate the patriarchal norms of the artist鈥檚 records labels, a mode of pushing back against the aspirational whiteness and heteronormativity of the Cuban community, and a model for queer of color survival in a murderous world.
听is an Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies and an active performance artist. Both her performance work and her research explore queerness in Caribbean and Latinx communities.
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Americanism as Musical Strategy: From Pan Americanism to Latin Americanism听
A Virtual Presentation on Zoom with Eduardo Herrera, Rutgers University
Monday, October 26, 1:00 pm on Zoom (MST)
Free and Open to Everyone
This presentation reveals how graduates of the听听(CLAEM 1962鈥�1971) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, mobilized a shared discourse of Latin Americanism as a professional strategy and as musical style to position themselves within the classical music tradition. The two-year fellowships at CLAEM enabled composers to defy the very coloniality that kept them mostly unaware of the musical scene of one another鈥檚 countries, and instead allowed them to imagine a regional community that was of strategic professional use. Composers who met at CLAEM developed an identification as Latin American that was imagined through the sounds of avant-garde music and articulated through personal interactions. The tension between the Latin Americanist character of CLAEM emanating from its very name to the de鈥揕atin Americanizing goal of its avant-garde ethos led to an active attempt to reconfigure what it meant to be a Latin American composer in the Western art music tradition.
听(he/him/his) is Associate Professor of Musicology at Rutgers University. His 听book,听听(Oxford University Press, 2020)听explores the history of the听Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales听(1962鈥�1971) as a meeting point for local and transnational philanthropy, the framing of pan-regional discourses of Latin Americanism, and the aesthetics and desires of high modernity. Herrera is currently working in two book projects:听Sounding Fandom: Chanting, Masculinity, and Violence in Argentine Soccer Stadiums听and the second,听Soccer Sounds: Transnational Stories of the Beautiful Game. Both books build upon from sound studies, critical race theory, performative theory of public assemblies, and gender studies to inform analysis of the cases in which sound in soccer has been a central player.
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Music and HIV/AIDS 鈥� A Look at Then and Now听
A Virtual Presentation on Zoom with Matthew J. Jones and John Seesholtz
Monday, October 12,听5:30 pm on Zoom (MST)
Free and Open to the Public
5:30 听Love Don't Need a Reason: The Life and Music of Michael Callen
A talk by the book's author, Dr. Matthew J. Jones
Michael Callen (1955-1993) is a forgotten hero of the US AIDS activist movement. Singer, songwriter, author, and activist, Callen played a pivotal role in the response to AIDS during the first fifteen years of the epidemic in America. Based on ten years of archival and ethnographic research, my forthcoming book,听Love Don鈥檛 Need a Reason: The Life and Music of Michael Callen听(Punctum Books, 2020) repositions Michael in the broader history of HIV/AIDS. This talk considers songs about AIDS from Callen鈥檚 solo records as well as from his time with The Flirtations, a queer听a cappellagroup he co-founded in the late 1980s. This talk will introduce Callen, his biography, and his music and position him within the larger AIDS movement in the United States while also reflecting on his music, and music about AIDS more broadly, in light of the current global coronavirus pandemic.听I also discuss some of the theoretical questions that arose during the writing of the book, including hybrid methodologies and conducting research as an 鈥渋ndependent鈥� scholar.
6:15 听The Lost Songs of the AIDS Quilt Songbook
A talk by Dr. John Seesholtz, University of Colorado Boulder
The AIDS Quilt Songbook was a musical response to the shame surrounding the outbreak of the HIV virus and was one of the first art song publications to deal with the topic of HIV and AIDS. It was created to parallel the AIDS Quilt NAMES Project as "a never- ending work whose meaning and spirit is renewed and redefined with every addition." This concept of additions has continued the expansion of the AIDS Quilt Songbook Project from 1993 to 2020.听 The AIDS Quilt Songbook project has over sixty-seven documented additions, but only eighteen of the sixty-seven additions were published.听听The Lost Songs of the AIDS Quilt Songbook, is a collection of the previously unpublished pieces dedicated to this project and new pieces submitted to the collector.听 Dr. Seesholtz will lecture on the progression of the Quilt Project from 1980 鈥� 2020 and perform a few selections from the new publication.听
Matthew J. Jones听is a Houston-based musicologist and cultural critic. A first-generation college student from rural northern Georgia, he received a doctorate in Critical and Comparative Studies in Music from the University of Virginia in 2014. His work explores the relationships between LGBTQIA+ culture, music, media, and activism. His book,听Love Don't Need a Reason: The Life and Music of Michael Callen听(Punctum Books) will be published in 2020. His work has also appeared in听The Journal of the Society for American Music, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Women and Music,听and the听Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.听In 2017, he won the ASCAP Deems Taylor/ Virgil Thompson prize for concert music criticism for his essay, 鈥淓nough of Being Basely Tearful: 鈥楪litter and Be Gay鈥� and the Camp Politics of Queer Resistance.鈥� He is currently at work on a second book,听Popular Music-Making During the AIDS Crisis: 1981鈥�1996听(Routledge, forthcoming).
John Seesholtz, dramatic baritone and vocal pedaoguge, is the Director of Vocal Pedagogy at the University of Colorado. His most recent operatic performances include; Madame Butterfly (Sharpless), Florencia en el Amazonas (Alvaro), Verdi鈥檚 Otello (Iago), Candide (Pangloss), Silvio (Pagliacci),Verdi's Falstaff (Ford), and Gianni Schicchi (title role). Some of his solo concert performances include Camina Burana, Brahm鈥檚 Requiem, Five Mystical Songs, Sea Symphony, and Dona Nobis Pacem by Vaughan Williams. He has multiple articles published with the Journal of Singing and currently holds positions with the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Up North Vocal Institute, La Lirica Musica, CU NOW,听 and Art Song Colorado.听 His coming publications include, 鈥淗yperadduction: A Pedagogical Approach for the 21st听Century Voice Instructor,鈥� and a musical collection entitled, 鈥淭he Lost Songs of the AIDS Quilt Songbook, Vol 1.鈥� 听In September, he released a video/audio project titled, 鈥淢arginalized Voices,鈥� with Art Song Colorado.听 The project highlights compositions and poetry of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Cis-Female, and Jewish artists. 听He holds vocal performance and pedagogy degrees from University of Michigan and University of North Texas.