Professor Ingrid Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Music and African and African American Studies. She is the author of Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Oxford UP, 2007), Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (University of Chicago Press, 1996), for which she won the Sonneck Society's 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for the best book in American music, and an edited a volume entitled The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective (Garland/Routledge, 2000). Her articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, Critical Inquiry, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Black Music Research Journal, Women and Music, and several edited volumes. She is currently working on a book on the musics of the African Diaspora.

In this talk, Professor Monson will explore recent philosophical, cognitive, and ethnographic approaches to the body and the senses in musical scholarship. She plans to highlight the enormous potential of the sensory turn for understanding musical experience in new and innovative ways, as well as identify its limitations for addressing older questions of power, politics, and meaning.

Thursday, May 12, 2011
4:00 PM
Room 1440, Schoenberg Music Building
Reception Immediately Following