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The fifth annual Columbia Music Scholarship Conference will take place on March 7-8, 2008. The theme of this year's conference is POP! Musical Excess and Artifice. For the first time, Columbia's conference will be held in conjunction with CUNY's annual Graduate Students in Music conference.

Keynote Speakers:
Philip Auslander (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan)

All events are free and open to the public.

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is the author of Music, Ritual, and Falasha History
(1986), which won both the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1987 and the Prize of
the International Musicological Society in 1988. Other major publications include A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey (1991);Ethiopian Christian Chant: An Anthology (1993-97), co-authored with Peter Jeffery; and Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews (University of Chicago Press, 1998).

All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public.

A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Geoffrey Burgess (Columbia University) and Sean Parrresponding.

All HM Colloquia are free and open to the public.
Contact dmc2127@columbia.edu for more information. 

Woodwind instruments are made from Mpingo Wood, also known as African Blackwood and grenadilla. Oboes, clarinets, bagpipes, flutes, piccolos, and fingerboards for stringed instruments including guitars, are made of Mpingo. So are the highly prized sculptures made by the Makonde people. Mpingo grows in Tanzania and Mozambique, and worldwide, individuals and organizations work to conserve and preserve it. Over the past several years, Brenda Schuman-Post has taken on the task of bringing awareness to those involved in Western Classical Music of the impact that their culture is having on other peoples. As an oboist, she herself depends on the availability of Mpingo.