Topic: "Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians: Mythologies and Realities."
Dr. Evan Rapport is Associate Professor of the Arts at the Eugene College of Liberal Arts in the New School (formerly the New School of Social Research). His scholarly work concerns intersections of composition and improvisation, the music of Iran, Central Asia, and the United States, and issues of ethnicity, race, and diaspora.
Room 130, Edward Johnson Building at 80 Queen's Park
Event is free and open to the public, and is followed by a casual reception.
Co-sponsored by the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.