One of UC Davis’s highest priorities is the safety of its
students and all members of its community. UC Davis
prohibits all forms of sexual harassment and sexual violence,
including sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and
stalking. Such conduct violates University policy and may
violate California law.
Rita Sahai, Lecturer in Music and Director of the UC
Davis Hindustani Vocal Ensemble, has been selected as a recipient
of a Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award, which is given annually
by the Welfare Society of India to accomplished Indians living
abroad.
UC Davis Department of Music Professor Juan Diego Díaz has been
awarded the Helen Roberts Prize by the Society of Ethnomusicology
for the most significant article in the field
of ethnomusicology published in the previous year. Diaz
received his prize for his article “From Claves Ethnotheory to
Clave Theories: A Path Toward Decolonizing Music Analysis,” which
was published in the journal Ethnomusicology, the
flagship journal in Ethnomusicology.
UC Davis Department of Music undergraduate student Zoe
Plateau and music alumni Annamarie Bosco,
Andrew Hudson, Larry Lozares, Avery Snyder, Ben
Saetern, Natalie Laurie, Katie Gorden, Asa Stern, Laura
Zhang and Oscar Santamaria were participants in this year’s
CALCAP Chamber Music
Workshop held at California State University,
Sacramento.
What happens when Italian cuisine and wine are paired with
global African music and served in a Medieval piazza in central
Italy populated by local people, tourists, and migrants from
the Global South? “Umbria Jazz Feast” is a research
project that investigates multisensorial intersections during
the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. It
presents a new look at this festival by addressing the
question: how is jazz perceived as part of a new global
identity intersecting with local and global cuisine, art, and
culture?
There will be a special screening of Umbria Jazz
Feast, a documentary
film,directed by Alberto Guerri (Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia / National Film School, Rome,
Italy) and Department of Music Professor Pierpaolo
Polzonetti on Wednesday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m. in 1002 Cruess
Hall.
The screening is presented by Polzonetti and the Department of
French and Italian and co-sponsored by Global Affairs, Davis
Humanities Institute and the Departments of Music and
Cinema and Digital Media.
Free
Umbria Jazz Feast is made possible by the generous support of
the Eivind G. Lange (‘77) and Mary G. Puma Engagement and
Research in Italy Fund. At UC Davis, additional support was
given by a Seed Grant for International Activities from Global
Affairs as well as the College of Letters and Science and the
Department of Music.
In this talk, I offer play as a framework for conceiving of
music as dance—and vice versa. I do so by exploring creativity
in kathak. Often described as North
Indian “classical” dance, the form evokes a percussive
aesthetics, in which practitioners tap and slap their feet on
the floor along with accompanying musicians.
