infrastructure

The Illuminated City of Memory: Double Edge Theatre in Jamaica Plain

Submitted by Brian Fairley on June 26, 2016 - 9:11am
Our post this month comes from Brian Fairley, a second-year Master’s student in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. Prior to his graduate studies, he was the music director and dramaturg for Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
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memory
infrastructure
Dance
carnival
theatre
Boston

Future Humans: Will Our Bodies Become Multiplanetary?

Submitted by Elizabeth Stela on May 25, 2016 - 6:19am
Our post this month comes from Elizabeth Stela, a PhD student in Ethnomusicology at UC Riverside. As a former dancer with the Martha Graham Ensemble, she is interested in how the body reacts to training, education, and non-human entities such gravity, technology, and musical instruments. Elizabeth holds an MA in oral history from Columbia University.
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infrastructure
space
body
embodiment
crossing borders

Killing Them Softly: Ghosts and the Unspeakable in East Java, Indonesia

Submitted by Andrea Decker on March 18, 2016 - 9:15am
Our post this month comes from Andrea Decker, a second-year graduate student in ethnomusicology at UC Riverside currently working on her Master’s Thesis on infrastructure and gender in dangdut music videos. When not listening to dangdut or collecting ghost stories, Andrea knits, sings, plays tabla, and does Crossfit.

 

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Indonesia
Ghosts
Holland
Japan
colonialism
crossing borders
infrastructure
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