Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Anthony Seeger, Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology will present a public lecture at the University of Western Australia on March 14.
The lecture will address issues in Intellectual Property and ethics from an ethnomusicological perspective and in particular the rights of folk artists in the global economy.
Professor Seeger has written a number of articles and books that address ethnomusicology in the field of intellectual property rights and archiving. He specialises in the Music of the Suyá people of central Brazil, as well as of protest and struggle music.
Grandson of influential composer and ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger and nephew of folk musician Pete Seeger, Anthony Seeger is Director of the Ethnomusicology Archives at the University of California Los Angeles and Director Emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
WHAT: Anthony Seeger Public Lecture
WHERE: Tunley Lecture Theatre, School of Music, UWA
WHEN: Monday March 14, 2011 1-2pm
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