Winter-Spring 2018 Lecture Series at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music is now official
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is hosting a Distinguished Lecture Series in Winter-Spring 2018, bringing together scholars, artists, and innovators for a series of thought-provoking discussions on various topics within the realm of musicology. The series, programmed and sponsored by the Musicology Graduate Student Society, is open to the public and admission is free.
The series kicks off on January 25, 2018, with the first event, "Music, Canon and Identity: Pedagogical Perspectives". This event aims to address concerns surrounding intersectionality in academic discourse through a musical lens. Interdisciplinary scholar Robynn Stilwell will delve into the early television work of Ernie Kovacs on February 15, 2018.
In April, musicologist Phil Ford presents a talk on "magical hermeneutics" and its potential value for music analysis on the 5th. On the 26th, Grammy-nominated composer-pianist and MacArthur Fellow Vijay Iyer will lecture on a topic of his choosing.
The series also features a mini-symposium on Jamaican popular music and dance, titled "Dancehall Moves", which takes place on May 17-18, 2018. Donna Hope, a dancehall scholar, and Latonya Style, a dance innovator from Kingston, Jamaica, will present a lecture, joint Q&A, seminar, and dance workshop during this event. Donna Hope's publications include single-author monographs and edited volumes on reggae and dancehall music. Latonya Style is the creator of "Stylish Moves", a female dancehall movement vocabulary, and has choreographed and appeared in music videos for various artists.
Other scholars participating in the series include Robert Fink, Jessica Holmes, and Uri McMillan from UCLA, as well as Beth Levy and Stephan Pennington, who are musicologists. The series covers a wide range of topics, including intersectionality, Ernie Kovacs' early television work, magical and occult styles of thought, and Jamaican popular music and dance.
For more details and a complete list of events, check out the society's calendar. The exact focus of the 2018 series is not directly specified, but it is likely aligned with critical, humanistic, and scholarly engagement with musicology topics within the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music framework. For precise details, UCLA’s archived event pages or the Musicology Department’s official announcements for that term would be the best source.
- The Distinguished Lecture Series at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, while focusing on various aspects of musicology, also includes an event titled "Dancehall Moves" that delves into Jamaican popular music and dance, offering entertainment, education, and self-development through a dance workshop led by Latonya Style.
- The interdisciplinary scholar Robynn Stilwell's lecture on Ernie Kovacs' early television work in the Distinguished Lecture Series is not only intriguing for music enthusiasts but also provides opportunities for entertainment and education, merging the realms of entertainment and education-and-self-development.
