Session Description: Are you interested in studying relationships between people and music, in your local community and around the world? Then you might be interested in ethnomusicology, a long name for an accessible topic. Ethnomusicologists study how making and listening to music connects to emotion and entertainment; friendship, family, and community; dance, drama, and ritual; business, politics, and globalization; and, more often than not, culture and identity. This Global Talk introduces several of these topics as well as common research methods and ways ethnomusicology relates to other music professions. After the presentation by Professor Marc Gidal, a second ethnomusicologist who teaches at Ramapo, Adjunct Professor Andrew Kaye, will offer additional remarks prior to Q&A with attendees.

Presenters’ Bios:

Marc Gidal, Associate Professor of Music (Musicology) at Ramapo, is anethnomusicologist who studies religious music, art music, and jazz from Brazil and the U.S. He also studied music and religion in India and Israel. As a musician, he primarily plays jazz bass. PhD, Harvard; MA, Tufts; BS, University of Oregon.

Andrew L. Kaye, PhD, is an ethnomusicologist who has published on topics in African music, the history of stringed instruments, and film music. He has taught courses on Asian music, Latin American music, music of the European classical tradition, film music, music and gender, jazz, rock, and hip-hop. Kaye has traveled to over 80 countries and speaks several languages. A tango aficionado, he has taught tango workshops in Norway and Qazaqstan.

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Co-sponsored by: The Roukema Center for International Education, the George T. Potter Library, Ramapo’s School of Contemporary Arts and the Ramapo Provost Office.