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SUMMARY:Valente Lecture: Marié Abe\, “The Politics and Poetics of Mishearing and South-South Imaginaries”
DESCRIPTION:May 1\, 2025 – 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm\n\n\nRoom 266\, Everson Hall\n\n\nHow might we understand the potentialities of sound when it is misheard? What do we make of hearing when it generatively transcends the limits of aural intelligibility? This paper is a preliminary exploration of the phenomenon of aural apophenia—error of perception\, a kind of mishearing—to theorize the potentialities of sound to confuse\, allure\, and bring to life yet-to-exist\, imagined affinities across difference. I pursue this inquiry by tracing two case studies: the unlikely musical affinities between Japan and Ethiopia through the circulation of musical sounds of enka\, a sentimental popular music genre from 1950s Japan\, and an idiosyncratic Okinawan musicologist Yamanouchi Seihin’s theories of musical affinities between Okinawa and indigenous peoples of South America. What kinds of political imaginaries might emerge by taking these idiosyncratic mishearings seriously within the historical contexts of multiple imperialisms and U.S. militarism? Through this speculative exercise\, I am interested in exploring how mishearing\, taken as a generative practice of sonic equivocation\, enables the temporal and geographical otherwise that signals towards the south-south connections that were\, that could have been\, and could be. \n\nAbout Abe\nMarié Abe is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. She is a scholar of music and sound with ongoing ethnographic commitments in Japan\, Okinawa\, Ethiopia\, and the US. Broadly speaking\, her research explores the political and affective affordances of (musical) sounds in contexts ranging from everyday life to social movements\, primarily in contemporary Japan. Her publications include the ethnographic monograph Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan (2018\, Wesleyan University Press) as well as a number of articles and chapters in journals and edited volumes including Ethnomusicology\, the Journal of Popular Music\, and the Oxford Handbook of Protest Music. \nPublic-facing work and performance are integral to Abe’s scholarship. She is committed to public ethnomusicology through curatorial practice\, media\, and community engagement. In 2008\, Abe co-produced the Peabody Award-winning National Public Radio program “Squeezebox Stories\,” an audio documentary on the social histories of the accordion in multicultural California\, funded by the California Council for the Humanities. As a curator and artistic director\, she founded and organized the BU Global Music Festival in Boston (2018–23)\, an annual music festival that is offered free of charge\, open to the public\, and accessible to all ages on the university campus. She firmly believes in equitable redistribution of resources from university campuses to artists and community members through fostering sustained relationships. \nMarié holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology\, anthropology\, and ethnomusicology from Swarthmore College. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty in 2023\, Abe taught at Boston University (2011 to 2023) and Harvard University (2010 to 2011\, 2016). She has held fellowships at the Reischauer Center for Japanese Studies\, Harvard University (2010–11)\, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College (2013–14)\, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto\, Japan (2018–19).
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/valente-lecture-marie-abe-the-politics-and-poetics-of-mishearing-and-south-south-imaginaries/
LOCATION:Everson Hall\, Room 266
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Ruthie Meadows\, “Efficacy of Sound: Power\, Potency\, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà”
DESCRIPTION:Ruthie Meadows\, “Efficacy of Sound: Power\, Potency\, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà” | Hemispheric Institute of the Americas Book Talk Series \nIn the first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria\, Ruthie Meadows (University of Nevada\, Reno) explores how Ifá practitioners in Cuba\, Nigeria and the Caribbean are reshaping Yorubá rituals through cross-cultural exchange. In Cuba\, worshippers turn to Yorubá traditions for their perceived effectiveness. Meadows’s study of the “Nigerian-style” ritual movement reveals how women and men Ifá priests use music and ritual to transform gender roles\, challenge state policies\, and redefine religious authority. \nEfficacy of Sound: Power\, Potency\, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà was published in 2023 by the University of Chicago Press. \nAbout Meadows\nRuthie Meadows is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music at the University of Nevada\, Reno. Meadows’s research focuses on global circulations of music and sound of the Hispanophone and circum-Caribbean\, with attention to sexuality studies and gender studies\, ritual music\, jazz\, and ecology. In 2021\, Meadows’s article on women and batá percussion in Cuba received the Society for Ethnomusicology’s (SEM) Jaap Kunst Prize\, recognizing the most significant article written in ethnomusicology by a scholar in the first ten years of their scholarly career. Currently\, Meadows’s second book project explores Cuban women in jazz and jazz fusion.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/ruthie-meadows-efficacy-of-sound-power-potency-and-promise-in-the-translocal-ritual-music-of-cuban-ifa-orisa/
LOCATION:Social Sciences and Humanities Building\, Room 2203\, 250 N Quad Avenue\, Davis\, C\, 95616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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