Upcoming Events in the Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
AGEMS Fall 2020 Colloquium Series
contact fhjamison@utexas.edu for zoom information, questions, and accommodations
Maureen Mahon: Remembering the Shirelles: Gender, Race, Genre, and the Formation of the Rock Canon
Thursday, October 15, 12:00pm CDT
Alisha Lola Jones: ”I Am Delivert”: The Pentecostal Altar Call and Vocalizing Black Men’s Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality
Tuesday, October 27, 12:30pm CDT
Kofi Agawu: Rethinking Ligeti’s and Reich’s African Affiliations
Tuesday, November 10, 12:00pm CST
Lauren Eldridge Stewart: Class in Session: Fashioning Social Hierarchies in Haitian Concert Music Series
Thursday, November 19, 4:00pm CST
A Conversation with Danielle Brown
Monday, November 30, 3:00pm CST
Past Events in the Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Residency – Melena Francis
Melena, born in Havana, Cuba, is an accomplished percussionist and educator of Afro Cuban music. She studied ethnomusicology at UCLA, where she received her B.A. and M.A. degrees, graduating with honors. Her Afro-Cuban sound is a conversation of melodies that she plays with fierce passion. Melena is a multi-talented percussionist who plays congas, timbales, bata drums, and shekere. She is an artist who exemplifies the sound of legendary players from the past, while combining the modern sounds of today. Melena studied privately with the Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba as well as with the many gifted percussionists on the island such as: Miguel “Anga”Diaz, Yaroldy Abreu, Roberto Vizcaino Guillot, Cristobal Larrinanga, Mario Jauregui, Lazaro Ros, Regino Jimenez, and Daniel Herrera.
Melena has toured, performed, and recorded with legendary artists such as: Barry White, Stevie Wonder, Macy Gray, Julio Iglesias, Giovanni Hidalgo, Chucho Valdes and Irakere, Francisco Aguabella, Bennie Maupin, Byron Miller, Will Calhoun, Ray De La Paz, Mario Ortiz, Jr., Chino Nuñez, Chayanne, Poncho Sanchez, Frankie Morales, Eva Ayllone, Peru Negro, Oscar Hernandez (Musical Director of Spanish Harlem Orchestra) and Afro Cuban All Stars. In Havana, Cuba she has been invited as a special guest to perform with Los Papines, Pablo Menendez and Mezcla, Raices Profundas, Canela, Leyendas.com and Cuba’s national treasure the Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro.
Monday, January 27 / 10 a.m. / MRH 2.608, Recital Studio
Monday, January 27 / 1 p.m. / TBD
Tuesday, January 28 / 3 p.m. / 6.252
Wednesday, January 29 / 4 p.m. / 6.222
Thursday, January 30 / 6:30 p.m. / George Washington Carver Museum
