John-Carlos Perea: "Sounding Culture, Improvising Ethnomusicology in American Indian Studies鈥�
In partnership with the Schulich School of Music, and in the context of the ethnomusicology search, AHCS is delighted to welcome Professor John-Carlos Perea to our campus. 听All welcome!
鈥淪ounding Culture, Improvising Ethnomusicology in American Indian Studies鈥�
Dr. John-Carlos Perea
My presentation will discuss my experiences as an ethnomusicologist and musician working in American Indian Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. I will focus on four themes that best characterize my interdisciplinary interventions:听musicking听across powwow, Native American flute, and creative improvised music scenes,听archiving听media necessary to the transmission of those scenes, exploring the potential of听improvisation听as classroom and performance pedagogy, and the self-reflexive deployment of听technology听as a means through which to develop the previous themes in the present moment.
Bio:
John-Carlos Perea is an ethnomusicologist and associate professor of American Indian Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. His research interests include the politics of noise, urban American Indian lived experiences and cultural productions, music technologies, recording and archiving practices, Native and African American jazz cultures, and the Creek and Kaw saxophonist Jim Pepper. Perea is the author of听Intertribal Native American Music in the United States听(2014, Oxford University Press). His most recent scholarly work is 鈥淩ecording Technology, Traditioning, and Urban American Indian Powwow Performance鈥� published in听Music, Digital Media, Indigeneity (2017, University of Rochester Press).
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In addition to his scholarly activities, Perea maintains an active career as a GRAMMY庐 Award winning multi-instrumentalist and recording artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has recorded on eighteen albums as a sideman and two as a leader,听First Dance听(2001) and听Creation Story听(2014). His most recent creative work is听Improvising Home听(2016), a multi-movement work for Native American flute and large ensemble funded by grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at San Francisco State University.
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Perea is the recipient of a 2018-2019 Sabbatical Leave from the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development at San Francisco State University. The primary goal of his sabbatical project is to study the Max/MSP programming language in order to develop both creative and data-driven sonnifications of blood quantum for classroom use. The secondary goal of the sabbatical is to explore the potential of these new skills and research to form the basis for a culturally competent quantitative reasoning course syllabus.
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Directions:听Take elevator to the 3rd floor, enter the Music Library, walk up the stairs听or take the elevator up two floors. If stairs: turn left and go all the way down to the doors to A-512. If elevator: turn right, look for A-512.
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