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Friday, October 28

Oct

Music Scholars Series: Melvin L. Butler

Arts/Entertainment

Melvin L. Butler is an associate professor in the Department of Musicology of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. A scholar-performer with broad interests in music and religion of the African diaspora, he has conducted field research on popular music and religion in Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States. In these transnational contexts, he interrogates the cultural politics of popular culture and religious worship while attending to the role of musical style in constructing individual and collective identities. His research explores black music-making, improvisation, and transcendence, with an emphasis on discourses of cultural authenticity and power that inflect Spirit-filled Christian worship. Dr. Butler's first book, Island Gospel: Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2019), examines the theological and experiential connections between Jamaican and African American Pentecostal music and gospel performance. His second book, tentatively titled Claiming Haiti: Music and the Cultural Politics of Transcendence in Haiti, is under contract with Oxford University Press. At the heart of his work lies a critic

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Family Life Building | More Info

Oct

Wind Orchestra

Arts/Entertainment

Concerts are part of the band large ensemble curriculum. As capstone events, they typically occur twice per semester. Students are required to participate in these events as a large part of their grades, and these concerts are the culmination of several weeks of classroom rehearsals. All concerts are associated with one or more of the following ensembles: MUSC 4700: Wind Orchestra MUSC 3795: Wind Symphony MUSC 3790: Symphonic Band MUSC 3785: Marching Band

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall | More Info

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