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Lectures in Musicology: Brian Harnetty, Ohio State

Date: Oct 3, 2022 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Brian Harnetty, musicology, Ohio State, presents "How to Perform an Archive: Listening and Sonic Ethnography as Methods to Reinterpret Sonic Archives." Harnetty is a post-doctoral scholar and GAHDT Fellow (Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme). This lecture is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries. In this talk, Harnetty will discuss a methodology of listening practices related to sonic archives, including close and peripheral listening, mislistening, and social listening with the communities where the recordings were made. These methods are used to foster social change, and understand archives in new ways. They are anchored in both the arts and humanities, and draw from community-based archives, music archives, and recordings focused on a single figure. Harnetty will explore themes from several of his recording, performance and installation projects, including histories of extraction in Appalachia, social and environmental justice, and contemplative practices. Free and open to the public. Visit the School of Music website for event details, directions and updates. For credit: Take a picture of yourself at the event and send a short reflection to apo.leadership.ai@gmail.com talking about the event/what you took away from it.