Musics Abroad Seminar

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Jessie Cox, Harvard University Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices (Duke UP 2025) presents one of the first monographs centering Black life in a country that lacks a discourse around race. Switzerland...

MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Francesca Inglese, Northeastern University Sentimentals (covers of English language popular love songs) are central to Kaapse klopse ("Clubs of the Cape"), a vibrant parading and performance tradition practiced by mostly “Coloured”...

Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Boston University "Rapture": Afro-Caribbean Ritual Music in New York's Post-Punk, World Beat Avant-Garde" As the site of encounter between various populations of African descent (African-American, Anglophone Caribbean...