Engaging Students and Communities in Music Research

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music present a lecture by a noted expert on bringing research into communities and vice-versa. Carol Muller, a South African-born Ethnomusicologist at the University of Pennsylvannia, will speak at the Hodgson Schoo, at 4 p.m. Thursday Sept. 5 in room 408. 

Muller has published widely on South African music at home and abroad. Her books include Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa (Chicago with CD Rom); Focus: South African Music (Routledge with CD); Shembe Hymns (Univ. of KwaZulu Natal, with CD) and with jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz. She is currently writing a book, Musically Connected (Oxford) that will be used for future iterations of the Coursera course, Listening to World Music.

Muller's visit to UGA is part of Athens Music Project Willson Center Reseach Cluster led by Hodgson School faculty members Susan Thomas and Jean Kidula. The lecture is free and open to the pubic, a great opportunity to learn about academically-based community service from one of the leading thinkers in the field.