University of Washington Ethnomusicology / Winter Quarter 2011

Performing Ethnomusicology
A S eri es o f L ect u r e s , S e m in a r s , C o n c e r ts, and Wor kshops

January 14
Jovino Santos Neto Trio
Brazilian-born Jovino Santos Neto worked as a
pianist, flutist and producer with the legendary
Hermeto Pascoal from 1977 to 1992. Since
moving to Seattle in 1993, he has continued to
perform with internationally renowned musicians
and has received three Latin Grammy
nominations.
Concert (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin Auditorium)
The Jovino Santos Neto Trio blends contemporary
harmonies with traditional Brazilian grooves.
February 11
Gage Averill
Dean of Arts, University of British Columbia
Lecture (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin
Auditorium): “The Alan Lomax Haitian Music
Collection: Performing Repatriation in Haiti”
Performance (2:30-4:30 pm, Fishbowl
Conference Room): “The Frost is All Over--A fractured
Memoir of Performing Irish Rebel and Traditional Music in
the New Left”

Workshop (2:30-4:30 pm, Music 213)

January 21
Homayun Sakhi
Homayun Sakhi was born in Kabul in 1976 into
one of Afghanistan’s leading musical families.
From the age of ten, he studied rabāb (short-
necked lute) with his father, Ghulam Sakhi, a
disciple and brother-in-law of Ustâd Mohammad
Omar, the much-revered heir to a musical
lineage that began in the 1860s.
February 18
Deborah Wong
Professor of Music, University of California,
Riverside
Lecture (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin
Auditorium): “Taiko in Asian America”
Seminar (2:30-4:30 pm, Fishbowl
Conference Room): “Ethnomusicology and Difference”

Demonstration/Discussion (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin

Auditorium): A demonstration and discussion of the March 4
Afghan rabāb
Munir Beken
*Concert (7:30 pm, Brechemin Auditorium) Hamyum Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology,
Sakhi presents an Afghan rabāb concert; with tabla. University of California, Los Angeles

*Tickets: $10 cash or check at the door. Notecard event.
January 28
Antonio García de León
Professor of Economics, Cultural History,
and Philosophy, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México; researcher, Instituto
Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Lecture (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin
Auditorium): “The Son Jarocho and Popular
Music of Mexico and the Caribbean”
Seminar (2:30 to 4:30 pm, Fishbowl Conference Room): “Scholarship
and Community Arts Activism”
Recital (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin
Auditorium): Munir Beken performs works for
Turkish Ud.
Seminar (2:30-4:30 pm, Fishbowl Conference Room): “The Use of the Ud in
Contemporary Music”
March 11
Thione Diop and “Yeke Yeke”
Senegalese percussionist Thione Diop is a master of the djembe, sabar,
tama (talking drum), and djun djun. Based in Seattle since 1999, he has
toured internationally with musicians such as Poncho Sanchez, Alpha
Blondy, Lucky Dube, and Max Romeo. He is the creator and producer
of the annual Spirit of West Africa Festal at the Seattle Center, and
Kasumai Africa at the Northshore Performing Arts Center in Bothell.

Concert (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin Auditorium): Thione Diop and

February 4 Yeke Yeke perform a concert of traditional West African music.
Jocelyne Guilbault
Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Workshop (3:30-5:30 pm, Music 313)
California, Berkeley

Lecture (12:30-1:20 pm, Brechemin

Auditorium): “Sound Work: On the Aesthetic
and Ethical Formations of Trinidadian Soca”

Seminar (2:30-4:30 pm, Fishbowl Conference Room): “On the Study

of Aesthetic and Ethical Formations in Popular Music”

*All events are free except where noted. Support for this series comes
from the School of Music Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist program.

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