Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
The Global Music Ensemble: Shifting Models
December 2, 2021 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
| Location: | Via Zoom (see link) |
| Cost: | FREE! |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Kathy Armstrong |
| Contact Email: | kathy.armstrong@carleton.ca |
Reimagining the Global Music Ensemble is a two-year project that seeks to broaden the artistic vision and leadership of Carleton’s West African Rhythm Ensemble, motivated by current major cultural shifts including the Black Lives Matter movement. The project will gather together ensemble directors, educators, researchers, faculty, students, musicians, and the general public, to critically examine representation, roles and structures in post-secondary “world music” ensembles. Through collaborative discussion we will explore established and emerging models towards improving and expanding experiential learning opportunities for students at Carleton.
Thursday December 2, 7-9pm EST (via Zoom)
Zoom link 👇
https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/93332899497
“The Global Music Ensemble: Shifting Models”
Panel discussion with:
Samuel Elikem Nyamuame (Binghamton University, NY))
Stacey Can-Tamakloe (Carleton University/University of Ghana)
Sean Williams (Evergreen State College, WA)
Gavin Webb (Marist College, NY)
Hosted by Kathy Armstrong
Dr. Samuel Elikem Nyamuame is a native of Ghana and teaches Ethnomusicology and Dance at Binghamton University in New York. He received his Ph. D at University of Florida in Gainesville, MA at Wesleyan University in Middletown CT, and BFA in Music and Dance at the University of Ghana, Accra-Legon, Ghana. Dr, Nyamuame is an extraordinary talented musician, master drummer, dancer-choreographer, educator and a scholar. He has instructed, facilitated workshops, performed and presented scholarly research in conferences in Ghana, United States and China. Dr. Nyamuame’s research area includes dance-music research, traditional rituals and the role of drum text and its effects on performers
Dr. Nyamuame is a recipient of prestigious Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship to Ghana in Spring 2020. He is also a two-time recipient of Harpur College Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching at Binghamton University. Dr. Nyamuame currently teaches traditional and popular music of Africa, African Dance, Music, Identity and Social Movements and African Drumming. He is the artistic director for Nukporfe African Drum and Dance Ensemble as well as the founder and director of Dzidefo Africa choir at Binghamton.
Stacey Dela Can-Tamakloe is an international student from Ghana, currently studying at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Ghana in Legon where she focused on music and dance studies. Stacey is enrolled in the MA in Music and Culture in the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton. She is particularly interested in gender roles in Ghanaian popular and traditional music. Stacey will be bringing her skills to Carleton’s West African Rhythm Ensemble this year, in her role as a Graduate Research Assistant for the “Reimagining the Global Music Ensemble” project.
Sean Williams teaches ethnomusicology and cultural studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Her interests include liminality, language, gender, religion, and food; she has worked with Irish, Indonesian, Brazilian and American musical genres, and teaches those ensembles in her classes. In addition to her articles and reviews in the field of ethnomusicology, she has written chapters on music and religion, music and revival, music and food, music and dance, and music and identity for several edited volumes. Her books include The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java (Oxford, 2001); Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man (Oxford, 2011); The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook vol. I and II (Routledge, 2006 and 2016); English Grammar: 100 Tragically Common Mistakes (Zephyros, 2019); Focus: Irish Traditional Music, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2020); and Musics of the World (Oxford, 2021). Her alter ego on Facebook is Captain Grammar Pants, with over 70,000 followers.
Gavin Webb is Lecturer in Music teaching ethnomusicology courses in addition to serving as Director of International Programs at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. From 1998 – 2012 he was based at the University of Ghana in both the School of Performing Arts and Institute for African Studies as a student, Academic Director and Associate Dean for a US-based institute delivering international education programming before joining Binghamton University in New York as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology. He holds a BMus from Berklee College of Music, and a M.A. and PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Ghana.
