"Staging Romani Belonging in Turkey: Between Nationalism and Globalism"
This event is hosted by the Ohio State University School of Music and co-sponsored by the Middle East Studies Center, the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), The Ohio State University Libraries and Dance, Ethnomusicology Program.
Speaker:
Dr. Danielle V. Schoon is a lecturer at Ohio State's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and the Department of Dance. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Turkey from 2011-2012 and completed a dual PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona in 2015. Her work focuses on the politics of identity and performance for urban Roma ("Gypsies") in Turkey.
Event Description:
Dr. Schoon explores how the performance of culture in Turkish Roman communities helps to understand how globalization affects the daily lives of Europe's perpetual "others. This presentation will demonstrate how Turkey's Romanlar community mediates tensions between local, national, and global belonging with music and dance. Dr. Schoon proposes that performing Roman identity is not only about cultural representation. She uses field recordings and YouTube videos in order to analyze how "Roman dance" and music performance contribute to "open" subjectivities for a group of people often stereotyped as closed. For a more detailed event description, please visit the School of Music's event page.
Additional Information:
Lectures in Musicology are held Mondays at 4 p.m. in the 18th Avenue Library, 175 W. 18th Ave. (Music/Dance Library, second floor, room 205), unless otherwise noted. These events are free and open to the public. You can find more upcoming Musicology events here.
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