Edwin Seroussi: “The Musical Other Within”
Starts: 5:00 pm on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Ends: 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Location: BU Hillel House (Reform Chapel)
URL: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111748668897013
Ethnomusicologist and Hebrew University Professor Edwin Seroussi will lecture on “Musical Others Within: Sephardic Liturgy and the Soundscape of the Reform Movement of Judaism.”
The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology and Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Born in 1952 in Montevideo, Uruguay, immigrated to Israel in 1971 where he took undergraduate and graduate degrees in Musicology at Hebrew University receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1987. He taught at Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities in Israel, and was visiting professor at SUNY Binghamton, UCLA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, Institut für Musikwissenschaft in Zürich, Moscow University, and this year (2010) at the University of California Berkeley. Since 2008 he is head of the new School of the Arts at Hebrew University. He has published extensively on North African and Eastern Mediterranean Jewish musical traditions, on Judeo-Islamic relations in music and on Israeli popular music. He founded Yuval Music Series, and is editor of the acclaimed CD series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel.
Orrganized by the BU faculty initiative “The Other Within.”