In a world of global musical flows, who determines access to and ownership of
traditional musical knowledge? How can music serve the common good, and whose
common good? Such questions hold special importance not only for Haudenosaunee
communities in the United States and Canada, but for any community-based music
cultures.
On Monday, Nov. 17, the Musicology Cluster of the Central New York Humanities
Corridor will present "Music and the Common Good: Listening to Haudenosaunee
Voices," a special ethnomusicology event that will open a dialogue among
Haudenosaunee cultural workers, Central New York educators and students, and
Central New York arts organizers around issues of musical identity, the media and
the common good. The daylong symposium will be held in the Kilian Room, Room
500 of the Hall of Languages, beginning at 10 a.m. The Central New York
Humanities Corridor and the symposium are made possible by a grant from The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Opening remarks will be offered by Beverley Diamond, Canada Research Chair in
Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Diamond will speak
about indigenous music and dance in the digital age. The symposium will also
feature a series of panel presentations, a round-table discussion and working groups
facilitated by graduate students from the three member institutions in the Central
New York Humanities Corridor-SU, the University of Rochester (including the
Eastman School of Music) and Cornell University.
In the evening, a special performance of Haudenosaunee music and dance will
conclude the event. The performance begins at 5 p.m. in the Kilian Room.
All symposium events are free and open to the public; pre-registration is appreciated.
To register, contact Carol Babiracki at 443-1716 or cmbabira@syr.edu.
Created in 2006, the Central New York Humanities Corridor is supported by a three-
year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to SU to
collaborate with Cornell University and The University of Rochester for the creation
of a large-scale initiative to connect teaching and research in the humanities among
these three leading institutions. Inspired in part by the mission of the
science/technology Research Triangle in North Carolina, the Humanities Corridor
works to enhance the profile and connectivity of the humanities in Central New York
by drawing on the strengths of three Association of American Universities (AAU)
member institutions. For more information, visit http://www-hl.syr.edu/mellon/index.htm.
