Byrd McDaniel, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, was featured as one of the speakers at the Graduate School's "Research Matters" event on April 9, 2019 in Grant Recital Hall.

Special to The Providence Journal

Last week, we lost a friend and colleague, Debra Mann.

Professor Kiri Miller's book, Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media, has been awarded the 2018 de la Torre Bueno© Book Award.

Brown University invites applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Music with specialization in the aesthetics and techniques of music of the African diaspora. This position is to be held jointly at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Music, effective July 1, 2019.

The Department of Music is proud to announce the hire of musicologist Emily Dolan as Associate Professor of Music effective July 1, 2019.

“I just want to do something and then it’s gone. Just make a recording or just make some photographs or just make a video.”

“I like possibilities. And as an instrument builder I like to do things that are a bit out of the status quo.”

Congratulations Alesyia!

"I’ve listened at least a dozen times to the composer Wang Lu’s new album, 'Urban Inventory' (New Focus Recordings), and remain happily lost in its riotous maze of ideas and images.

The Department of Music is proud to announce conductor, musicologist, and violinist Mark Seto as Director of the Brown University Orchestra effective July 1, 2018.

Brown University Ethnomusicology Ph.D. alum David Fossum will begin his new post at Arizona State University in January 2019. Congratulations, David!

Assistant Professor Eric Nathan has been awarded Brown University's Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, for a semester of paid leave in Spring 2019, and a $15,000 Richard B.