Musics Abroad

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...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Sergio Ospina-Romero, Assistant Professor of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music The circulation of sound recordings became a matter of everyday life in Latin America and the Caribbean early in the twentieth century...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Petra Rivera-Rideau, Wellesley College In April 2023, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, made history as the first Latin star to headline Coachella. During the performance, he highlighted the historical...