2021 - 2022 Academic Year
DISCO DANCE PARTY at CLUB 156 with Legendary DJ Luis Mario Orellana Rizzo
22 April 2022
5PM DJ Luis Mario and Dr. Kristie Soares, in Conversation
6PM Dance Party
Asian American Identities in Music Video
A public lecture by Dr. Eric Hung (Music of Asian America Research Center)
13 April 2022
IMIG S101
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Mission Sensoriums: Spanish Colonization, Church Bells, and the California Indians
Bernard Gordillo Brockman (Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music)
Monday, March 14, 1:00
Imig S102 Chamber Hall
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Recent Events
Yoga as White Public Space
A Public Lecture by Dr. Rumya Putcha (University of Georgia)
Wednesday, March 2,5:00 p.m.
Imig Music Building, S102
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PLAYED: How Music and YouTube Exploit Twerking and Orchestrate Violence Against Black Girls Online
2022 Counterpoints Lecture byKyra Gaunt, University at Albany, SUNY
Tuesday, February 22, 5:00 pm
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While TikTok, with one billion users across 154 countries,became the most downloaded app during the global COVID-19 pandemic, YouTubeheldsteady as the number one destination for music search and discovery. Both platforms werefined millions by the FTC in 2019for accusations of violating the Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act.When users search for hits that girls' hips make famous from YouTube to TikTok,the sheer volume of ubiquitous music listening masks online child sexploitation orchestrated by music tech. 14-year-old Jalaiah Harmon's choreography drove attention toK-CAMP's hit, "Loyalty (Renegade)," but Black girls get no love and little profit for their taste-making on the musical Internet.
This keynote is based on writing from Gaunt'sforthcoming book,PLAYED: How Music Orchestrates Violence Against Black Girls Online. Using case studies from YouTube,the adverse consequences of tween twerking in bedroom musical play areexposed.
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"The Ways of White Folks:" Fletcher Henderson's Sonic Theorization of Whiteness in "Whiteman Stomp"
A Public Lecture by Dr. Stephanie Doktor, Colorado College
Monday, February 7, 2022,1:00 pm
Imig Music Building S102
For centuries, Black writers such as Harriet Jacobs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin, among many, many others, have provided unparalleled insight into the innerworkings of white supremacy. However, other mediums beyond the written word capture such expertise. In this presentation,StephanieDoktorconsiders how critical engagement with whiteness can beheardin the music of Black jazz musicians. In 1927, Fletcher Henderson recorded “Whiteman Stomp,” parodying the musical style of the “King of Jazz.”If U.S. entertainment had historically beenbased on the white gaze, white imaginations of Blackness, and the subjugation of Black performers to this orientation, then Henderson’s recording turns the industry on its head. It refracts this gaze, staring back at whiteness. In heranalysis of this arrangement and Whiteman’s response to it,Doktorargues that Henderson, in his sonic theorization of Black music, makes whiteness legible. His re