music/culture/critique

September 19, 2008

Veit Erlmann (University of Texas at Austin)

Point of Audition: The Louvre, the Cochlea and Early French Opera

The talk draws on a chapter from Erlmann's forthcoming book "Reason and Resonance. A Cultural History of the Ear" (New York, Zone Books). In it, Erlmann examines the work of Claude Perrault; otologist, zoologist, and architect during the era of Louis XIV and Lully. Using the physiology of hearing to criticize the Cartesian mind-body split, Perrault also wrote two essays on music in which he for the first time argued that musical listening was a matter of "taste," and not of arithmetic or physics.

October 10, 2008

David Hunter (University of Texas at Austin)

Accounting for Taste: Audience Choices and the Consumption of Entertainment During Handel’s Years in Britain (1710-59)

David Hunter was born a mile from the site of the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, London. During the 1960s he sang in Chichester Cathedral choir. Having been awarded an undergraduate degree by the University of Wales and been a partner in a natural food shop in Aberystwyth, he spent a year at Oxford and then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study librarianship and music. He received his Ph.D. in 1989. He has been Music Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin since 1988. The Bibliographical Society published his Opera and Song Books Published in England 1703-1726: A Descriptive Bibliography in 1997. He edited Music Publishing and Collecting: Essays in Honor of D. W. Krummel (Champaign, Ill.: GSLIS, 1994). From 1994-98 he edited the book review column of Notes, the most extensive column published in the U.S.A. of reviews of books about music. Sixty of his articles have been published in scholarly journals, newsletters, festschriften and music encyclopedias. Since 1996 he has been studying the biographical response to Handel and hopes to publish a book on the subject in the Handel anniversary year 2009. He began the audience research project in 1999.

November 21, 2008

John Hoberman (Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

The Race Factor in Jazz

John Hoberman has researched and published on the history of racisms and racial folklore for many years. He has taught two courses for UT's African-American Studies program: "Race and Sport in African-American Life" and "Race and Medicine in African-American Life." His books include DARWIN'S ATHLETES: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997) and BLACK & BLUE: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism (forthcoming). His most recent article is "Medical Racism and the Rhetoric of Exculpation: How Do Physicians Think About Race?," New Literary History 58 (2007): 505-525. His research on the race factor in music will appear in a book in progress on race relations among American artists and intellectuals.


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	Each semester distinguished speakers visit the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division to give presentations on a wide range of topics. Past speakers have included: Christopher Waterman (UCLA), Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania), Denis Constant-Martin (CERI, Paris), Kofi Agawu (Princeton University), Bernice Reagon (Washington, D.C.), John Shepherd (Carleton University), Martin Stokes (University of Chicago), David Brent (University of Chicago Press), Kay Kaufman-Shelemay (Harvard university). For a list of upcoming lectures see below. (All lectures take place at 4pm in MRH 2.604)
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	September 19, 2008 Veit Erlmann (University of Texas at Austin) *Point of* Audition: The Louvre, the Cochlea and Early French Opera The talk draws on a chapter from Erlmann's forthcoming book "Reason and Resonance. A Cultural History of the Ear" (New York, Zone Books). In it, Erlmann examines the work of Claude Perrault; otologist, zoologist, and architect during the era of Louis XIV and Lully. Using the physiology of hearing to criticize the Cartesian mind-body split, Perrault also wrote two essays on music in which he for the first time argued that musical listening was a matter of "taste," and not of arithmetic or physics. October 10, 2008 David Hunter (University of Texas at Austin) Accounting for Taste: Audience Choices and the Consumption of Entertainment During Handel’s Years in Britain (1710-59) David Hunter was born a mile from the site of the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, London. During the 1960s he sang in Chichester Cathedral choir. Having been awarded an undergraduate degree by the University of Wales and been a partner in a natural food shop in Aberystwyth, he spent a year at Oxford and then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study librarianship and music. He received his Ph.D. in 1989. He has been Music Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin since 1988. The Bibliographical Society published his Opera and Song Books Published in England 1703-1726: A Descriptive Bibliography in 1997. He edited Music Publishing and Collecting: Essays in Honor of D. W. Krummel (Champaign, Ill.: GSLIS, 1994). From 1994-98 he edited the book review column of Notes, the most extensive column published in the U.S.A. of reviews of books about music. Sixty of his articles have been published in scholarly journals, newsletters, festschriften and music encyclopedias. Since 1996 he has been studying the biographical response to Handel and hopes to publish a book on the subject in the Handel anniversary year 2009. He began the audience research project in 1999. November 21, 2008 John Hoberman (Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin) The Race Factor in Jazz John Hoberman has researched and published on the history of racisms and racial folklore for many years. He has taught two courses for UT's African-American Studies program: "Race and Sport in African-American Life" and "Race and Medicine in African-American Life." His books include DARWIN'S ATHLETES: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997) and BLACK & BLUE: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism (forthcoming). His most recent article is "Medical Racism and the Rhetoric of Exculpation: How Do Physicians Think About Race?," New Literary History 58 (2007): 505-525. His research on the race factor in music will appear in a book in progress on race relations among American artists and intellectuals.
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For a list of upcoming lectures see below. (All lectures take place at 4pm in MRH 2.604)