David Schroeder Music & Culture Lecture Series
The Fountain School of Performing Arts proudly hosts the David Schroeder Music & Culture lectures. This exciting PUBLIC series features distinguished scholars presenting research on music and culture, drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches and exploring diverse repertories. Join our community鈥檚 conversation.听
Sounding New Histories of the Atlantic World: Mohican Music Across Three Centuries, with Sarah Eyerly
Oct. 25 | 12:00PM-1:00PM听
Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Fountain School of Performing Arts
1385 Seymour St. HFX
free and open to the public
In this talk,听musicologist Sarah Eyerly听will explore the complex history of sound and music in the Atlantic world through the transhistorical stories of four Mohican musicians and composers: Tassawachamen, Joshua Jr., Bill Miller, and Brent Michael Davids. Across multiple genres and centuries, their work provides an important framework for engaging the tangled intersections of colonialism and artistic practice throughout the Atlantic world.
Sarah Eyerly is Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in the College of Music at Florida State University. Her first book and digital humanities project,听Moravian Soundscapes听(Indiana University Press, 2020), received the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society and the Dale W. Brown Book Award. She is co-author of the triple prize-winning article 鈥淪inging Box 331: Re-Sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns from the Moravian Archives鈥� (The William and Mary Quarterly, 2019), and her article 鈥淢ozart and the Moravians鈥� (Early Music, 2019) received the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America. Her current projects include a biography of the eighteenth-century Mohican musician, Joshua, and sound reconstruction of the Apalachee-Hispanic musical culture of Mission San Luis in northern Florida.
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An Archival State of Mind: Hip-Hop's Polyphonies of Preservation, with Dr. Mark Campbell
Nov. 7 | 12:00PM-1:00PM听
Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Fountain School of Performing Arts
1385 Seymour St. HFX
free and open to the public
In this talk, Dr. Campbell explores the growth of hip-hop archives and the many ways, beyond institutional archives, that the culture's multiple elements work to preserve its histories, amidst a flurry of technological transformations.听 Dr. Campbell posits decolonial ways hip-hop culture offers us strategies and methods to preserve popular music, honour Black cultural knowledges and mitigate the coloniality of traditional archives. Come examine elements of hip-hop culture, including breakdancing, turntablism, graffiti, remixing and sampling.
This lecture extends and builds on Dr. Campbell's latest book Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Potentials of Knowledge Production.听
Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. His research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations, hip-hop archives and notions of the human. Dr. Campbell is currently the Principal Investigator in the SSHRC funded research project,听Hip Hop Archives: The Poetics and Potentials of Knowledge Production.听听He is the founder of The Afrosonic Innovation Lab, a team of artists, creatives, and scholars actively engaged in sound experimentation, music-making and musicological analysis across the African diaspora. While spending seventeen years on radio with the Bigger than Hip-Hop Show from 1998-2015, Dr. Campbell founded Northside Hip-Hop Archives in 2010 and has djed events and curated exhibitions across three continents.
His recent books include the monograph听AfroSonic Life听(2022),听the co-edited collection of essays,听We Still Here:听Hip Hop in North of the 49th Parallel听published (in 2020) and the co-edited collection听Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production听with Murray Forman in 2023.听听Dr. Campbell is Associate Professor of Music and Culture at听 the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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