Freedom within Repetition: The Music of Julius Eastman: Ellie Hisama, Music Studies Colloquium

Performing Arts - Music | December 7 | 4:40-6 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall

Featured Speaker: Ellie Hisama, Professor of Music, Columbia University

Sponsor: Department of Music

Ellie Hisama is a Professor of Music at Columbia University. She previously taught at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where she was Director of the Institute for Studies in American Music. She is the author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2001) and co-editor of Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies (2005) and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music (2007). Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, post-tonal theory, American music, popular music, gender and feminist studies, critical studies of music and race, and the social and political roles of music.

Tickets not required

Refreshments: Reception follows colloquium

Event Contact: 510-642-2678