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H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music

The H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College (HISAM) supports American music scholarship, pedagogy, and performances. We recognize and seek to connect diverse local, national, and global musical practices across a broad spectrum of oral, popular, and art music traditions. We represent scholars, performers, and creators that reflect the racial, economic, and gender diversity of our students, faculty, community, and the world. Through our biannual publication, American Music Review, the Polycultural America Speaker Series, monographs, collection of oral histories, and forums for public musicology, the faculty and staff of HISAM seek to resist systems of oppression, acknowledge the privileges of whiteness, strive for social justice, and publicly promote antiracism.

Music in Polycultural America

A Transpacific History of American Music

with Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Head of Music Theory and Professor, Rutgers University

Thursday, December 2, 2021
9:30 a.m.

via Zoom

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718.951.5655
hisam@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Excerpt from ‘Lyrical without Lyrics’ - Rosamond S. King performance from HISAM Speaker Series

American Music Review

Vol. L, No. 2, Spring 2021
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