NECSEM Conference: Session 2A-Music in Theoretical Context

2:30-3:00 Rhythmic Treatment of the Tasnif in the Qajar and Pahlavi Period: Changing Sensibilities and Conventions in 20th Century Classical Persian Music

Payam Yousefi, Harvard University

3:00-3:30 Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Koln Concert: African, European, and South Asian Musical Syncretism in American Jazz

Jack Herscowitz ‘20, Middlebury College

3:30-4:00 “We’ve Got Harmony, Too!”: Reclaiming Music Theory, Performing Chinese-ness

Rujing Huang, Harvard University

4:00-4:30 Kwekwe Nisuo: Towards an Ethnographically Informed Theory of Ashanti Kete Drumming

Ben Paulding, Tufts University