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The Music Faculty is delighted to state the office about Griff Rollefson therefore Lecturer in Common Music until the boundary of 2016. Rollefson holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin where he conducted fieldwork for a tract examining postcolonial protest tips in European hip hop entitled “Musical (African) Americanization in the Regenerated Europe.” He served as ACLS New Faculty Person and Visiting Second Professor at UC Berkeley where he taught courses on the intercontinental jolt and diversity of American musics, focusing exclusively on African American rhythmic influence astir and the ways in which minority communities in Europe are highlighting the continuities between double consciousness and postcoloniality through the sonic contours of black music. He has taught in both the ethnomusicology and music history sequences at Chapman University in Southern California, leading courses ranging from “American Popular Music and Global Resonances,” to “Musical Cultures of the Africa and the Middle East,” and “Medieval and Renaissance Music History.” He has also taught American noted music at the University of California, Riverside.

Rollefson is currently working on a book project entitled European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality which demonstrates how minority greenness in Berlin, Paris, and London are adopting the musical politics from hip hop and aligning themselves for African Americans in a flounder for equality through difference, not assimilation.

A new scheme has been certain to enable up to ten Cambridge Music students separate year to take lessons at the Royal Academy of Aeolian in London alongside their studies at the University. Students selected for the scheme will be assigned a teacher at the Dignified Academy and, in addition to receiving individual tuition on their principal instrument, they will afsluiting invited to attend a number of departmental performance classes at the Royal Academy. The scheme is the initiative of Margaret Faultless, Director of Completion Studies in Cambridge and also Director of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy. Martin Ennis, Chairman of the Music Faculty Board, commented: ‘Cambridge College has a circuitous tradition of fostering performance, and over the years many of our best students have gone on to London for further studies after completing their degree in Cambridge. However, this new scheme gives the cream of our performers the best like two worlds: they tin enjoy international-level tuition and attend performance classes at a leading conservatoire while pursuing a largely academic course at one of the world’s most renowned research universities. It’s an unbeatable combination, besides we feel the competition for places to be intense.’

A unfamiliar contemporary stage work along Hossein Hadisi for voices, blow connective dance. The piece celebrates the Persian minstrels’ art of Naqqáli near to reenacting the ancient myth of Zahhák from the Persian ‘Book of Kings’. The music is performed concerning EXAUDI, one concerning Britain’s leading contemporary music ensembles, and six dancers from London Contemporary Dance School. The performance also features paintings by Iranian surrealist master Ali Akbar Sadeghi.

If you would like to apply through the University of Cambridge, you need to submit a draft application to the Faculty of Music by 27 August: we shall assess all the formulate submissions we receive, and if we are able to host your relevance we shall work with you to make it as good as possible before the final version is submitted to the British Academy. We aim to tell you whether we can host your application by the second week of September; if so, you will be asked at that point to commit yourself to applying through Cambridge.

The draft application should consist of the following: (i) an academic CV, (ii) a summary of your doctoral or other onetime research in in re 500 words, and (iii) a research proposal of about 1500 words. We recommend you frame this as below, as these are the cay sections of the British Academy application form. Any queries shrub also be sent to that email deportment