Talk

with the performers above and following guests:

Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, moderator
(music theorist, research on interactions of music, perception, and culture)
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert is Professor of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she teaches music theory and analysis.  She has published on Stravinsky's music, tonal analysis, and music analysis and cultural studies, with particular emphasis on feminist theory and music.  Her essays have appeared in various book collections and journals such as College Music Symposium, Journal of Musicology, Music Analysis, Music Perception, Music Theory Spectrum, 19th-Century Music, Theory and Practice, and Perspectives of New Music.  A long-time member of the Editorial Board of Perspectives of New Music, she has also been a co-editor of that journal.  Kielian-Gilbert’s recent work examines connections between music and cultural studies in relation to different perceptual, contextual, and philosophical orientations.  Another dimension of her work includes multi-disciplinary/multi-media presentations that have explored gender and sexuality in Britten’s music, music of contemporary women composers, Picasso and Stravinsky, the poetry of Sylvia Plath in the music of Shulamit Ran, and tango and dance.

Halina Goldberg
(musicologist specializing in music in East European & Jewish political contexts)
Halina Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Musicology (Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center, 1997). Her research deals with Chopin, music in Poland and Eastern Europe, performance practice, reception, and political and national constructs in music.  She is editor and contributor for the essay collection, The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries (Indiana University Press, 2004); and author of Music in Chopin's Warsaw (Oxford University Press, 2008). Recent and forthcoming articles deal with Chopin's chamber versions of his concert works, Chopin in Warsaw's salons, national constructs in Glinka's music, and the participation of nineteenth-century Jewish musicians in the articulation of Polish musical identity. Awards include:  1998, the Wilk Award for Research in Polish Music (Polish Music Reference Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles); 2005-6 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant in Poland ("National Identity, Assimilation, and Jewishness in Nineteenth-Century Polish Music").  Invited lectures at the Polish Chopin Academy in Warsaw; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Warsaw University; and the University of Rouen, France. Radio interviews include WETA in Washington, D.C., and Warsaw 2 in Poland.

John McDowell
(ethnomusicologist specializing on Latin America, Mexican culture & the corrido)
John McDowell is Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University; affiliated faculty in Chicano-Riqueño Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Semiotic Studies.  His research and teaching focus on verbal art, mythic narrative, narrative song, and speech play, in Latin America and the United States, using approaches drawn from semiotics, linguistic anthropology, and the folkloristic study of performance. McDowell specializes in Mexican poetry and traditional/popular music issues, and especially on corridos as narratives of personal and communal tragedy.

Iris Rosa
(choreographer, performance and dance)
Iris Rosa is a Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and is the Director of the Indiana University African American Dance Company.  Her specializations are choreography, modern contemporary, and jazz dance, and teaching from the perspective and aesthetics of the African Diaspora.  Ms. Rosa has worked, studied and taught with the Dance Ensemble of Ghana, West African and has studied dance in Puerto Rico and in Havana, Matanzas, and Guantanamo, Cuba. She has traveled to British Guyana and the Dominican Republic.   She is the artistic director of Sancocho:  Music and Dance Collage and Seda Negra/Black Silk Dance Company in Indianapolis, Indiana.  She has worked on international and community projects at the historical Madame Walker Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Civic Theatre, and the American Cabaret Theatre. 
Ms. Rosa is also the recipient of the Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

Marlon Bailey
(research on African American/African diaspora studies and gender)
Marlon M. Bailey is Assistant Professor in Gender Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2005). He teaches courses in Sex and Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective; Sexual Politics; and The Cultural Politics of HIV/AIDS. His research interests include: African Diaspora studies, queer diasporas, race, gender, and sexuality, queer theory, Black queer studies, theatre/performance studies, ethnography, and HIV/AIDS (cultural politics, research, and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Black communities). Dr. Bailey earned his PhD in African Diaspora Studies with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. His dissertation, "The Labor of Diaspora: Ballroom Culture and the Making of a Black Queer Community," is an ethnographic study of Ballroom culture in Detroit MI, a Black and Latina/o queer culture in the U.S. Dr. Bailey has published on Black queer performance as well as the same-sex marriage debates. Currently, he is working on a manuscript that expands his ethnographic study of Ballroom culture. Dr. Bailey is also an accomplished professional actor, director, and performance artist. His most recent performance was in "The Hard Evidence of Existence," at the Thick House in San Francisco, California. During the 2006-07 academic year, Dr. Bailey held a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley. He began teaching at Indiana University, Bloomington in the fall of 2007.

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