Sergio Ospina Romero, Assistant Professor in Musicology, is one of eight IU Faculty members to receive an inaugural IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship, a program that “aims to accelerate and amplify the work of outstanding IU faculty poised to become national and international leaders in their fields.” Thanks to this support, Prof. Ospina Romero has invited two outstanding scholars to deliver talks on Wednesday and Thursday, March 22 and 23.
David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of the awarded and widely read book Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. On March 23, he will present “‘Music and Guns Go Hand in Hand’: World War I and the Sonic History of American Warfare,” a preview of his current book project (to be published in 2024 by the University of Chicago Press): Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers, a path-breaking study of the ways music has enabled U.S. war-making from the Civil War to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Thursday, March 23 | 5:00 pm
Gayle Karch Cook Center Grand Hall, Maxwell Hall
David Suisman (University of Delaware), “‘Music and Guns Go Hand in Hand’: World War I and the Sonic History of American Warfare”
Frederick Schenker is Assistant Professor of Music at St. Lawrence University. His talk on March 24 will be titled “The Filipino Fox-trot”: Manila’s Markets for Popular Music,” an exploration of “how Manila’s popular music composers of the 1920s grappled with the imperial circulation of U.S. popular music as a force that was simultaneously dominating and enabling,” as well as how local musicians transcended the political limits of U.S. pop by reworking these styles as revolutionary music while engaging and competing with North American and European businesses in the new arena of modern popular entertainment.
Friday, March 24 | 12:30pm
Room M344, Simon Music Center
Musicology Colloquium Series
Frederick Schenker (St. Lawrence University), “‘The Filipino Fox-trot’: Manila’s Popular Song Industry in the 1920s”
In addition to the talks, Schenker and Suisman, along with Suzanne Ryan Melamed (former Editor in Chief at Oxford University Press), will hold a book workshop with Prof. Ospina Romero. His book, Talking Machine Empires: Phonograph Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean during the Acoustic Era, will be the first comprehensive study of the sound recording industry between 1877 and 1925, before the advent of microphones, loudspeakers, and electrical recording.
These activities are sponsored by the Indiana University Arts and Humanities Presidential Fellowship and the Department of Musicology. Email musicol@indiana.edu with questions.
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