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Faculty Lecture Series Event: Tracing the Sound of America’s Identity, Nov. 18
Mark Cavanaugh, Ph.D., associate professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, will continue the college’s 2010–2011 Faculty Lecture Series with a talk titled “Music and National Identity.” The presentation will take place on Nov. 18 from 5 – 6 p.m. in the college’s Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the Don Taft University Center, room 309.
Sociologists, historians, and musicologists have long claimed that music gave rise to the development of national consciousness in various parts of Europe in the late 19th century. In the early 20th century, America sought its own national music. After many false starts, the “Copland” sound became that which represents the nation to the rest of the world.
This lecture will trace the unifying and emotional power of music—from the composer’s imagination, including his or her efforts to capture that imagination through musical symbols, to the psychology of performance and how the composer’s original experience becomes reconstructed and relived in the minds of listeners.
The Faculty Lecture Series is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jim Doan, Ph.D., at 954-262-8207 or visit www.fcas.nova.edu/articles/fls.