Lecture
Organizers:
Date:
January 23, 2023
Time:
7:00 PM
Fee:
Free
Location:
Aula, University of Aruba
Music Performance and Climate Challenges
Introduction
The University of Aruba’s Center for Lifelong Learning in collaboration with the Community, Research, Education and Development Project is organizing a Calypso, Steelpan and Carnival Heritage Project on Aruba and in the Caribbean Diaspora throughout January 2023. The overall aim of the project is to bring community awareness, appreciation and promote community engagement related to these popular and historically significant artforms on Aruba and the world. Calypso, Roadmarch, Soca, Steelpan and Carnival have played a significant role in the overall social, cultural, political, religious and economic development of Aruba in the 20th century. A series of engaging activities will be organized, free to the public, which include lectures by local and international experts, panel discussions, media engagement and performances.
Description
Music creates possibility in spaces of enclosure, possibilities to think anew our relation to climate and environment, and possibility to feel and thus be otherwise in relation to it. Music is a site where our livingness is practiced and where the knowledge of this livingness takes place. What is the sound that livability might inspire? What sound and song does it initiate? And how does sound animate livability? This lecture will be a space for collectively thinking about how music can be situated in discussions of climate change and its effects, questioning whether music can reveal something new?
Dr. Charissa Granger
Speakers
Dr. Charissa Granger is an Aruban scholar of Caribbean music, performance, decoloniality and Caribbean diasporic cultural thought. Attending to the residue of chattel-slavery and the legacy of colonialism, Granger’s teaching and research attends to Afro-Caribbean and diasporic music-making and performance as decolonising practices, interested in epistemologies of music, decolonial aesthetics, love, and erotic knowledge.
She holds a doctorate in cultural musicology from Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Germany), and was the 2018-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie LEaDing postdoctoral Fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), and is lecturer in cultural studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. She is also postdoctoral researcher in the NWO-funded Island(er)s at the Helm research project that works on co-creating research on sustainable and inclusive solutions for social adaptation to climate challenges in the (Dutch) Caribbean. Dr. Granger completed a bachelor’s in visual and performing arts at Northern Illinois University with a focus on cultural studies and steelpan performance, and a master’s in cultural musicology at The University of Amsterdam. She is co-editor of Music Moves: Musical dynamics of relation, knowledge and transformation (Georg Olms Verlag 2016) and their published work can be found in the Langston Hughes Review, Contemporary Music Review, Conflict and Society, and Esferas Journal. Granger’s teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses on Caribbean cultural studies and cultural thought, Theorizing Caribbean culture, and Methods of inquiry in Caribbean research.
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