Sonic Cartographies in Hawai‘i Exotica Colloquium

Name: Sonic Cartographies in Hawai‘i Exotica Colloquium
Start: 2024-10-25T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Old Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903, United States

Schedule

Fri Oct 25 2024 at 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Old Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903, United States | Charlottesville, VA

The UVA Department of Music is pleased to present Sonic Cartographies in Hawai‘i Exotica, a colloquium by Jade Conlee in 107 Old Cabell Hall on Friday, October 25th at 3:30 PM! This event is free and open to the public. (This was originally scheduled for October 4th, but due to conflicts we moved it to Friday, October 25th.
In the years leading up to Hawai‘i statehood in 1959, small jazz ensembles in Honolulu invented an obscure genre of lounge music called “exotica.” Promoted by American record companies as sonic advertising for Hawaiian tourism, exotica featured birdcall vocalizations and timbral explorations of instruments from around the globe. Limited scholarship has treated exotica as meaningless kitsch, or worse, musical colonialism. However, I argue that exotica is a privileged site for examining some of the most pressing issues of the long twentieth century, including the entanglements of U.S. empire, sound technologies, the popular music industry, and climate change.
For more information about this event, please visit https://music.virginia.edu/sonic-cartographies-hawai%E2%80%98i-exotica.
To see all events in our colloquium series, visit https://music.virginia.edu/colloquia.
Jade Conlee is a Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in the Music Department at the University of Virginia. She specializes in antiracist and anticolonial approaches to the history of American popular music, jazz, and music theory.
Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA’s historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda. Parking is available in the central grounds parking garage on Emmet Street, in the C1 parking lot off McCormick Rd, and in the parking lots at the UVA Corner.
All events are subject to change.
Please contact the UVA Music Department at 434.924.3052 or [email protected] for more information.