Event overview
The symposium keynote will be followed by presentations by MA in Music (Ethnomusicology) students on their dissertation topics.
The Symposium Keynote Presentation will be by Professor Tina K. Ramnarine (Royal Holloway) – 'Festivals, violins and global histories: thinking on a large-scale in Ethnomusicology'
The symposium keynote will be followed by presentations by MA in Music (Ethnomusicology) students on their dissertation topics.
2.45 pm – Gerda Malwald
3.15 pm – Martina Drigo
4 pm – Marco Canepari
4.30 pm – Tessa Healy
5 pm – Joao Ribeiro Cardoso
Symposium Keynote:
'Festivals, violins and global histories: thinking on a large-scale in Ethnomusicology'
This presentation will look at two festivals: the Tobago Heritage Festival and the Fiddles of the World Festival. It will focus on the details of violin playing styles to emphasise overlapping music histories through the routes of British imperialism and the migration of a musical instrument (to the Caribbean and to Canada). The presentation will discuss how global music histories narrated by different voices in disparate geographies are connected in various ways, including through imperial conquests, trans-imperial aesthetics, labour histories, and overlapping postcolonial performance practices. Through the ethnographic examples, I will show how the details of performance practices encourage thinking on a large-scale in Ethnomusicology.
Biography
Tina K. Ramnarine is a musician, anthropologist and global cultural explorer. She has undertaken field research across the Nordic countries, the Caribbean, India and Indonesia. Publications include the books Creating Their Own Space: The Development of an Indian-Caribbean Musical Tradition (2001), Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music (2003), Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora (2007), and an edited volume Musical Performance in the Diaspora (2007). She is Professor in Music at RHUL.
PureGold forms part of a summer of Goldsmiths Degree Shows across the capital, including exhibitions and shows from the Departments of Art, Theatre and Performance, and Design. Follow us on twitter @goldsmithsmusic #PureGold15 and #GoldsmithsDegreeShows for the latest news and photos.
Free, all welcome.
Image of Tina K Ramnarine
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jun 2015 | 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
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