Gary Tomlinson A Million Years of Music
- Friday, September 12, 2008
- Kaleidoscope Center, 3rd Floor Newcomb Hall
- 3:00PM
- Free
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo
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.