Thematic Series: Sonic Impressions
Repatriation of the Lomax Haiti Recordings: Cultural Memory and Cultural Rebuilding in Post-Quake Haiti
Gage Averill, Dean of Arts, UBC
Michael Ames Theatre
Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive, UBC
4:30-6pm, Tuesday, April 19, 2011, with reception to follow at Green College
Gage Averill is currently President of the Society of Ethnomusicology and specializes in music of the Caribbean and North American vernacular music. His book, Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony, won best book prizes from the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society of American Music. An Earlier book, A Day for the Hunter: A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti, received the top prize in ethnic and folk research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. His recent 10-CD boxed set of music and film called Alan Lomax in Haiti, 1936-37, was nominated for two Grammys.