Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features Dr. David A. McDonald of Indiana University speaking on "Listening to the Nakba: Palestine and the Crisis of Response." For Palestinians the "nakba," or catastrophe, is a profound concept that describes the events of 1948, when the majority of the world's Palestinians were forced into exile, …

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Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features University of North Carolina music professor Mark Katz speaking on his book, "Rap and Redemption of Death Row – Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose Behind Bars," which was published last April. A hip-hop-rich prison memoir, the book chronicles inmate Alim Braxton’s struggles and triumphs as he …

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Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features Dr. Anthony Brandt of Rice University speaking on "Exploring the Mind Through Music: Combining Artistic Performance and Scientific Experiment." Thanks to advances in mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI), music and other art forms now have the potential to help scientists explore the neural underpinnings of human cognition …

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Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University is "Starting and Running a Record Company - the Rounder Records Story" and features one of Rounder's founders, Tufts alum Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalog of more than 3,000 titles includes records by Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Thorogood, Tony Rice, and …

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Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University is "Blown Kisses: How Film Composers Ruin Romantic Tension" and features Tufts faculty member Frank Lehman. Whether for melodrama or comedy, few cinematic tropes are as memorable — or cringeworthy — as the rudely interrupted kiss. Composers for film and screen media have long appreciated the power …

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The first Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University for the 2024-25 term is "Max Roach: Black Power Ideologies and Aesthetics," with speaker Maya Cunningham, an ethnomusicologist, Africanist/African Americanist scholar, cultural activist, and a Black music practitioner (jazz vocals). The program is part of the Max Roach 100 Project, a nationwide centennial celebration of the …

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The Tufts Department of Music's Granoff Music Center Colloquium presents Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy), co-founder and director of education of the Akomawt Educational Initiative, on "A Gift and Responsibility: The Soundtrack of My Life." The Akomawt Educational Initiative is dedicated to furthering knowledge of Native America through innovative learning approaches designed to impact how we teach …

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The Tufts Department of Music's Granoff Music Center Colloquium presents Northeastern University music faculty member Susan Asai on the topic, "Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity." Asai, an associate professor at NU for 33 years, teaches courses on the music of a variety of cultures from around the world …

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The Tufts University Department of Music's first Granoff Music Center Colloquium of the spring semester will feature Yale University research scholar  Janie Cole on the topic, "Sacred Sound, Space, and Afro-Eurasian Encounters in the Christian Kingdom of 17th-century Ethiopia." The Jesuit mission to the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia (1557-1632) was one of its earliest and …

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Composer/theorist and Tufts University lecturer Sid Richardson presents the second Granoff Music Center Colloquium of the fall semester, titled "Ground Gone Under: Intersections of Music and the Poetry of Nathaniel Mackey.