Traditions and Technologies: Music Information in a Changing World

Lynnsey Weissenberger, adjunct professor of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University, explores the ever-changing world of music information technologies and their challenges in documenting, describing, and transmitting global musical traditions. As both a practitioner of Irish traditional music and an information technologist, Dr. Weissenberger asks: What is music information? How can we accurately and ethically convey complex socio-cultural understandings of music within information systems? And, whose information–and in which contexts–may be represented and made accessible? Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free