Tang and E. Harris publish in "Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music"

Professors Patricia Tang and Ellen Harris both have newly-published essays in "Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music," ed. Ingrid T. Monson, Carol J. Oja, and Richard K. Wolf," a collection of essays in honor of Kay Kaufman Shelemay (official publication date January 2018): Harris, "Interrogating the Dead: An Ethnography of Eighteenth-Century London," 3-17; Tang, "Communities on the Move: Griots, Mobility, and New Lineages," 107-121.

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Ken Urban Wins 2024 Blue Ink Award

Congratulations to Ken Urban, winner of the 2024 Blue Ink Award for The Conquered.

Composing for 37 Years at MIT

In the intimate but acoustically reassuring Killian Hall, with the cooperation of Collage New Music, the Institute’s Music Department hosted an evening of Peter Child’s recent works.

MTA Associate Professor Emily Richmond Pollock Named 2024 MacVicar Fellow

Four outstanding undergraduate teachers and mentors have been named MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Karl Berggren, professor of political s

Play It Again, Spirio

A piano that captures the data of live performance offers the MIT community new possibilities for studying and experimenting with music