Sue Tuohy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has conducted research on and in China for over three decades, including on music and society in Northwest China, cultural heritage, and music in social, political, and environmental movements. Her 2017 Instruments of Culture talk will address the interactions between musical instruments and broader social, political, and artistic phenomena. While focusing on musical instruments, the talk will highlight the human, musical and cultural diversity within China and its interactions with others. She will introduce three case studies–ancient bronze bells, the guqin, and “foreign” instruments from the west, both Central Asia and Europe and North America. These cases will illustrate some of the diverse ways people have used instruments as forms of self-cultivation, entertainment, “soft power,” and symbols of identity. The event will be free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series.

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Cost: FREE

For more information contact:

Judith Kirk
(812) 855-6873
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