Noon Concert and Lecture Series

The Archives of Traditional Music Noon Concert and Lecture Series is a monthly forum for the presentation and discussion of music and culture. Designed to be entertaining and educational, the series features performances and lecture/demonstrations by musicians and scholars from around the world and from the local Bloomington community. The series provides an opportunity for university and local community members to gather together to learn about and celebrate the diversity of music and culture in the world.

The concerts and lectures take place on selected Fridays, Noon to 1:00pm, in the Hoagy Carmichael Room, Morrison Hall 006 (See Map). All performances are free and open to the public. Bring your lunch and join us! For more information contact the Archives of Traditional Music at (812) 855-4679.

2011-12 Schedule:

Friday: Noon-1:00pm

September 23	Abigail Washburn & Kai Welch	As a warm-up to the Lotus World Music Festival, we will be featuring Abigail Washburn and her musical partner Kai Welch who will chat with us about their experiences traveling the world performing traditionally-based music. Seamlessly mixing elements of Chinese folk, American old-time and modern sounds, Abigail's music embodies how traditions can shape the present. Her recent CD release City of Refuge was claimed "a modern classic" by the Boston Globe.
November 11 *NOTE* - Noon-2:00pm at the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Performance and Lecture Hall (800 N. Indiana Ave.)	Trinidad & Tobago Sweet Tassa	This concert/lecture/participatory workshop presented by the Archives of Traditional Music in conjunction with ESA/FSA will feature an Indo-Trinidadian Tassa Drum ensemble called Trinidad & Tobago Sweet Tassa. Founded by virtuoso drummer Lenny Kumar in Princes Town, Trinidad in 2004, Trinidad & Tobago Sweet Tassa prides itself on the continuity of tradition while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation. Under Kumar's leadership, Trinidad & Tobago Sweet Tassa has won a number of national and international drumming competitions and regularly performs for Indo-Caribbean weddings, the Muslim Hosay observance, and a wide variety of cultural events. Additionally, members of Trinidad & Tobago Sweet Tassa have performed to delighted audiences in the United States, Canada, England, Guyana, Antigua, and India.
December 2	Hoagy Carmichael Birthday Concert	Join us for our annual Hoagy Carmichael Birthday Concert to celebrate the 112th birthday (November 22, 1899) of Bloomington's own, Hoagy Carmichael. Performing some of Carmichael's best songs will be Kid Kazooey and the Hoagy Hula-Baloos, Rachel Caswell, and Sophia Travis. Birthday cake will be provided!
January 27	¡Que viva el Baile Chileno! - Cueca Brava Dancing and Music from Chile	Join doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, Juan Eduardo Wolf, and los Quaker O's as they host an interactive presentation on Chilean Cueca Brava Dancing and Music. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes and your pañuelos!
February 3	Mei-Chen Chen	Second-year MA ethnomusicology student Mei-Chen Chen will conduct a performance/lecture on the guzheng, a 21-string Chinese zither.
February 10	Lijun Zhang - Rammed Earth Building (Tulou) as a UNESCO World Heritage site, tourist destination, and ethnic symbol	Tulou is a distinctive, traditional architectural style that has been used by Hakka people in the southwest of the Fujian province for hundreds of years. The development of toulou is closely related to the history of Hakka people, and has been strategically presented and constructed as the symbol of Hakka identity, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage site and developed as a tourist destination. Zhang's presentation at the Noon Concert/Lecture series will be three-fold, beginning with an explanation of the structure and characteristics of tulou and how it relates to local social and cultural features. Secondly, she will describe the building's relation to local historical development, which includes the formation of Hakka ethnicity, and will lastly close the presentation by focusing on the current situation of the architectural style, including its UNESCO designation, touristic development, and promotion of cultural symbols.
February 24th - NOTE: Special Time of 1pm	Carolina Chocolate Drops	Join this Grammy-award winning group for a conversation/lecture on their "dirt-floor-dance-electricity," before their evening concert at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. "Old-time music never sounded so current." - NY Times
March 20	Vanessa Paloma - Gender and Power in Northern Moroccan Jewish Women's Songs	Vanessa Paloma is a singer, performer, scholar and writer specializing in Judeo-Spanish women's songs and their role in Sephardic communities. Currently, she is a Research Assistant at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, and received her Master's in early music performance from Indiana University. She is currently completing a doctorate at the Sorbonne's Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. Her lecture for the Noon Concert/Lecture Series is "Gender and Power in Northern Morrocan Jewish Women's Songs," the topic of her upcoming third book.
March 30	George List/Lorenzo Dow Turner Listening Party	The George List and Lorenzo Dow Turner Listening Party is an interactive listening event, designed to exhibit the work of these two distinguished scholars in the catalog of the Archives of Traditional Music. George List, director of the Archives of Traditional Music for more than two decades, was an ethnomusicologist who worked with the Hopi Indians of Northern Arizona, Colombian costal musicians and Amazonian Indians in Ecuador. Lorenzo Dow Turner, linguist and professor of English, is known as the father of Gullah studies and held teaching positions at Howard University, Fisk University, as well as Roosevelt University. George List's Colombian field recordings from the 1960s will be presented by Juan Sebastian Rojas, a second-year master's student in ethnomusicology, and Lorenzo Dow Turner's collection of Gullah recordings from the 1930s, will be presented by Doug Peach, a first-year master's student in ethnomusicology.
April 6	Keith Terry - Body Music Presentation	Keith Terry is a percussionist/rhythm-dancer/educator whose artistic vision has straddled the line between music and dance for more than four decades. As a soloist he has appeared in such settings as Lincoln Center, Bumbershoot, NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, PRI's The World, the Vienna International Dance Festival, and the Paradiso van Slag World Drum Festival in Amsterdam. His groups - Slammin All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Professor Terry's Circus Band Extraordinaire, and Body Tjak (with I Wayan Dibia) - have performed in a variety of venues, including Joe's Pub, WNYC, and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Grand Performances, LACMA Jazz, the Roxy, and the Skirball Center (LA), SFJazz, Vancouver Island MusicFest, Woodford Festival in Australia, and the Bali Arts Festival. In addition, Keith has performed with a wide range of artists including Charles "Honi" Coles, Turtle Island String Quartet, Bill Irwin, Jovino Santos Neto, Barbatuques, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Kenny Endo, Freddie Hubbard, Tex Williams, Robin Williams, and Bobby McFerrin. As a producer he has created 5 CDs and 4 DVDs for Crosspulse Media. From 1998 to 2005 Keith was on the faculty at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he designed and taught a dozen courses on the relationship of music and dance; deep listening; synchronicity, time, and timing; and intercultural communication in the arts. For his presentation, Keith will be joined by Evie Ladin.
April 13	Folksong on Campus: Campus Folksong Clubs at Indiana and Illinois as Folk Music Curators	During the folk revival of the early 1960s, folksong clubs at the University of Illinois and Indiana University were active groups numbering in the hundreds of students. These groups hosted concerts by nationally-recognized folk musicians on campus. As urbanites transplanted to the rural Midwest, however, they were deeply concerned about "authentic" portrayal of a native tradition. If "to wrench a ballad or blues out of its culture context for concert presentation is, by definition, an act of violence," as Archie Green, faculty sponsor for the University of Illinois Campus Folksong Club, wrote, how could concerts undo this violence? This presentation by David Blake, musicology doctoral candidate from SUNY-Stony Brook, argues that participants massaged the violence of campus folk music presentation by stressing the educational value of folk music traditions in opposition to the inauthentic college campus, celebrating (and romancing) rural culture outside of the urban background of most club members. The politics of representation were also complicated by student group guidelines at both institutions that required all clubs to be profitable. This presentation uses concert footage from shows by the New Lost City Ramblers, Frank Proffitt, Joan Baez, and the Stoneman Family drawn from research conducted at the Archives of Traditional Music to demonstrate how the Indiana and Illinois campus folksong clubs negotiated the politics of curatorship.