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John will be sharing his work on the history embedded within the oral traditions of Southern Africa with a focus on traditional and contemporary ritual and performance in Zimbabwe.
Pete’s research awakens dormant historic threads through the process of translating embodied musical knowledge from one mode to another. He will share the musical lineage of his Ustad and the history of the sarod and the cello. He will also reflect on the movement of performers of Romani origin and how this is entangled in his work. His presentation will be followed by a 10-minute performance on cello.
In this seminar/concert hybrid, we explore artistic movements, performances, and the ever-evolving musical exchanges between the past and the present and across continents and borders. Specifically, we invite participants to think about music and performance as possible sites of preservation, transformation and negotiations of diasporic identities.
