Distinguished
Lecture Series

Each year, the graduate students in the Department of Musicology invite a number of outstanding scholars from the United States and abroad to participate in the Distinguished Lectures Series. The content of the lectures and symposia reflect the interests of the students and faculty, and have embraced diverse subjects pertaining to the study of music. Recent topics have included Dancehall Moves: A mini-symposium on Jamaican Popular Music and Dance; A Conversation on Ecomusicology; The Liturgical and Political Context of Du Fay’s Mass Music in the 1440s; Composing “Normal”: Uncool Labor and the Politics of Whiteness in Attali, Spandau Ballet, and Taylor Swift; A Million Years of Music:  The Emergence of Human Modernity, and Compositional Process: A Reappraisal. Recent guests have included Vijay Iyer, Robin James, Gary Tomlinson, and Anna Maria Busse Berger.