Aaron Fox will be joining us for a lecture.
At Columbia University, Aaron teaches courses entitled "Music and Language," "Music and Property," "Country Music," "Social Theory and the Arts," "Field Research Methods," "Music in Contemporary Native America" and "Archiving Practice." He also teaches the graduate proseminars in ethnomusicology, and the graduate and undergraduate field methods courses.
In recent years Aaron has focused on issues of cultural and intellectual property and the repatriation of Native American cultural resources, as part of a broader interest in cultural survival and sustainability and music-centered community activism. He is currently working with Dr. Chie Sakakibara (Lecturer in American Indian Studies, University of Oklahoma) on a "community partnered repatriation" of traditional music recordings made by Laura Boulton in 1946, with the Iñupiat community of Alaska's North Slope. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation's Arctic Social Sciences Program. He is involved in other repatriation projects in development with the Navajo and Hopi tribes and with an Appalachian music collection.
Reception to follow
Room 130
Free