Gary Tomlinson A Million Years of Music

September 12, 2008 - 3:00pm
  • Friday, September 12, 2008
  • Kaleidoscope Center, 3rd Floor Newcomb Hall
  • 3:00PM
  • Free


Photo credit: Candace diCarlo
The McIntire Department of Music at UVa cordially invites you to attend a colloquium by Gary Tomlinson, Annenberg Professor of the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. His talk, entitled "A Million Years of Music," addresses the fundamental questions of where music came from and why Homo sapiens began to sing. A project of “paleomusicology,” the talk draws on anthropology, musicology, and cognitive psychology to addresses the cognitive basis for making music and its intersections with the origins of language and culture.

A MacArthur Fellow from 1988-93, Tomlinson has also received a Guggenheim fellowship and the Alfred Einstein prize of the American Musicological Society. He has published five books and numerous articles on diverse musical topics. His work on opera, especially in Metaphysical Song (1999), treats the connections between music drama and changing models of European subjectivity. Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others (1993) brings poststructuralist historical approaches to bear on sixteenth-century musical magic, and The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact (2007) engages theories of European colonialism.

This colloquium is generously co-sponsored by several departments and programs, including Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics, Mechanical Engineering, and the Special Lectures Committee.

Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu