20 April 2010

yawn

two big exciting things this week:

on thursday, 4/22: white suns and satanized will be joining us for cheese club in the sin-ema at the student center. we must spend the rest of the budget so it's going be extravagant.

on saturday 4/24: the 29th annual school of natural and social science senior project symposium. beginning at around 8 or 9, i believe. free food. i will be presenting my project at 11:40 in the social sciences building here at purchase. here's my abstract. i figure i would post this for the 3 people who may stumble upon this and be curious.

‘Walk Right In’: Narrating Gendered Identities through Performance

My project is an analysis of gender-based pedagogical norms in jazz music education at Purchase College. Using observations in Purchase classrooms, I argue that personal narrative, or the way we make sense of who we are and where we came from, is often ignored in musical training. Specifically, I focus on gender identity in the classroom, everyday experiences, and music performances. I suggest that musical training requires more than the development of technique; listening to and creating music are practices rooted in how we embody experiences and transform them into narratives of the self.

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