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Musics and Cultures Research Group

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Seminar Series 1997-98

The Musics and Cultures Research Group will be hosting a seminar series this year, featuring a number of eminent guests as well as internal speakers. All are welcome, and we look forward to a stimulating series of interdisciplinary meetings, which should be of interest to colleagues working in a wide variety of academic fields.

Seminars held to date:

Friday 24 April 1998

Dave Laing (Westminster University)
Rethinking the 'Global' and 'Local' in Popular Music Studies

Monday 10 November 1997 CMR6, Walton Hall, 2.30pm

Prof. Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)
Fiddler on the Move: Studying the Transnational Klezmer Movement

Tuesday 9 December 1997
CMR11, Walton Hall, 2.30pm

Kevin Dawe (OU)
Eurasian Musical Landscapes: Orchestral Works by Ross Daly, an Irish/Middle Eastern Musician
and
Jonnet Middleton (OU)
Football, Tractors and Rock 'n' Roll: Introducing Rock Bravu in Galicia

Wednesday 11 February 1998
CMR15, Walton Hall, 2.30pm

Peter Franklin (Oxford University)
Fate, incest and national identity c.1900; deformation and reformation of grand narratives in Sibelius and Karlowicz

 

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