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Event | “Some Favored Nook” Talk with Eric Nathan
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Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson and poet Emily Dickinson On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 5 p.m. in the John Hay Library, Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan will give a talk about his most recent set of original songs, “Some Favored Nook.” Nathan will discuss the creation of the songs, which are based on correspondence between poet Emily Dickinson and minister and Civil War Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson. In addition to the talk, original Emily Dickinson manuscripts and Amy Beach scores will be on display.
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow the talk.
On Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m., the New England premiere of Nathan’s “Some Favored Nook” will usher in Women’s History Month at Brown. The concert, also featuring music by Amy Beach, Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland, is presented by Providence arts organization FirstWorks in partnership with the Brown Arts Initiative and the University’s music department.
More information on “Some Favored Nook” and Professor Nathan’s process during composition of the songs can be found in the article, “Brown, FirstWorks present regional premiere of ‘Some Favored Nook,” on the News from Brown website.
Date: Friday, March 1, 2019
Time: 5 p.m.
Location: John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St, Providence -
Exhibit | Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar
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Photo courtesy of Whitney Young via Hidden Darkroom This exhibit by ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Byrd McDaniel displays some of the memorabilia central to air guitar playing in the United States and the U.S. Air Guitar Championships in particular. Advertised as the “greatest thing you’ve never seen,” the contemporary U.S. Air Guitar Championships stem from a long line of related practices throughout the twentieth century—such as pantomime, musical comedy, and dance—that crystallized in the late 1970s and early 1980s around air band and air guitar competitions. Byrd argues that we should think of air guitar as a type of listening—a practice in animating, translating, and transmitting rock recordings.
Air guitar competitions not only reproduce and revisit some of the classic moments in rock guitar history, but they also revise these moments, sometimes sustaining and sometimes challenging the often racist, sexist, and ableist narratives that litter the genre’s history. It can also undermine these problematic discourses as well, subordinating guitar greats and lofty values (like authenticity or virtuosity) to the tastes and talents of the amateur air guitarist.
Ultimately, air guitar playing reminds us how gesture and listening sustain important aspects of our cultural identities. It calls on us to rethink the origins of our current interactive and haptic technologies, which stem just as much from technological innovations as they do from a desire to take music recordings into our own hands.
Dates: February 12 – April 12, 2019
Time: Library Hours
Location: Orwig Music Library, 1 Young Orchard Avenue, Providence -
Link resolver and JournalFinder maintenance
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ProQuest is planning a data center migration and associated downtime for a number of assets that impact the library’s services. This does not affect ProQuest content or databases, but will cause significant disruption to some of the the connectors between systems like the link resolver and Journal Finder.
Downtime begins
Friday, February 8, 2019
8:00 pm EST.Services should be back online by Saturday, February 9 at 8:00 pm EST.
Services unavailable during downtime:
E-Journal Portal (Journal Finder)
360 Link (our link resolver; API used for services like easyAccess, and interactions with OpenURL)Staff and patron-facing applications will be unavailable for up to 24 hours, although we do not expect the migration to take the full time. Josiah and Josiah Classic will remain available.