Musics Abroad

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Laura Fahrenkrog, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, DRCLAS Fall 2026 Harvard-UAI Scholar Indigenous musicians were at the heart of their communities in the Pueblos de Indios of the Viceroyalty of Peru. They were usually referred to as “...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Maria Sonevytsky, Bard College Across the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, Palaces of Pioneers provided after-school programs for children aged 9–14, aiming to cultivate ideal future Soviet citizens who would reproduce the...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Jessie Cox, Harvard University Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices (Duke UP 2025) presents one of the first monographs centering Black life in a country that lacks a discourse around race. Switzerland...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Francesca Inglese, Northeastern University Sentimentals (covers of English language popular love songs) are central to Kaapse klopse ("Clubs of the Cape"), a vibrant parading and performance tradition practiced by mostly “Coloured”...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Boston University As the site of encounter between various populations of African descent (African-American, Anglophone Caribbean, Hispanophone Caribbean), New York City has long been a crucible of intra...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe, Brown University The global circulation of Black music genres such as jazz, hip-hop, and reggae, demonstrates the fluidity and capacity of music to resonate in cultural and geographic settings beyond its...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Álvaro Torrente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales The zarabanda (sarabande), widely regarded as the most popular and controversial dance-song of the late Renaissance in the Iberian...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Nettrice Gaskins, Lesley University This presentation examines the ways in which musicians, visual artists, dancers, and Afrofuturists reconcile the symbols and the ideology of an ancient African (Kongo) symbol called a cosmogram...