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SUMMARY:Toward a Black Ecomusicology\, 1853? Listening to Enslavement with
  Solomon Northup - Dr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge &amp\; Queen
 s' College Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:In his 1853 autobiographical narrative\, Twelve Years A Slave\
 , violinist Solomon Northup recounts his own experience being abducted and
  sold into slavery. Northup offers considerable detail about his sonic (an
 d musical) experiences\, frequently situating them in a broader environmen
 tal context of slave plantations\, land- and riverscapes of the American S
 outh\, and their remediations in print/musical notation. In asserting a sa
 lient connection between environment\, race\, and sound\, Northup's memoir
  points to possible limitations in conceptualizations of the environment t
 hat have predominated in recent ecocritical musicology\, and especially th
 e tendency of ecomusicology to efface the centrality of race in conceptual
 izing notions of the environment and its histories. It also offers an alte
 rnate genealogy for a long history of thinking about sound\, ecology\, and
  power. Bio: Peter McMurray is a lecturer at the Faculty of Music with int
 erests in the critical and cultural study of sound. He is completing a boo
 k and media project on sound and Islam among migrant communities in Berlin
  and editing a volume on histories of sound\, media and empire in the long
  nineteenth century. \n\n\nRegister "here":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.
 us/webinar/register/6616099379293/WN_AR3fINL_RjKjMHKrHWZIaw
LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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