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The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) presents the Symposium for Music, Sound, and Indigeneity on Thursday, February 20, 2020 from 1:30-3:30 pm in the UCSB Multicultural Center Theater. The symposium will engage with popular musics and archival collections from indigenous perspectives. The first component of the symposium will be a roundtable discussion of graduate students and early career scholars from across the country. Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

The symposium will culminate with a keynote presentation by Amy Ku’uleialoha Stillman, Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, on Friday, February 21st, 2:45-4:00 pm in the McCune Conference Center, on the 6th floor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Building (PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE). The title of Dr. Stillman’s keynote is “Notes Toward Indigenizing Sound Studies: Thinking, for example about Soundscapes and Sonic Intimacies Archived in Indigenous Bodies.” This keynote will dovetail with the AIIC (American Indian and Indigenous Collective) annual symposium, themed as “The Body as Archive.” The AIIC symposium will continue with its own programming through the weekend.

Please see the poster for more information and a complete list of roundtable participants.

Amy Ku’uleialoha Stillman is Professor of American Culture and Music at University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the cultural continuities in performance traditions in Hawai’i and French Polynesia in the post-Euro-American period. She is the author of Sacred Hula: The Historical Hula ʻĀlaʻapapa (Bishop Museum Press, 1998) and numerous articles in leading journals. In her role as Facilitator to the non-profit organization Kūlia i ka Pūnāwai (Kumu Hula Association of Southern California), she has curated four major collaborative concerts involving fifteen hālau hula, and co-produced four compact discs, Kalākaua (2006), Kapiʹolani (2007), Liliʻuokalani (2010), and Kaulana Nā Pua (2015). She also edited the historical CD anthology  Ancient Hula Hawaiian Style Vol. 1: Hula Kuahu (2010). She is co-producer of two Grammy Award-winning CDs of Hawaiian Music, ʻikena (2008) and Huana Ke Aloha (2010) with artists Daniel Ho and Tia Carrere.

This symposium is generously funded by UCSB CISM, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Graduate Division, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the MultiCultural Center, the Department of Environmental Studies, and the Department of Music.

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