MIT/Harvard Cool Japan Present: Music, Culture, and Transformation (2/26-27)
Music, Culture and Transformation:
A two-day series of events including live music (2/26 W) and panel discussions (2/26-27 W/Th)
organized by MIT/Harvard Cool Japan
All events are FREE and open to the public.
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2/26 (Wed)
3-5pm MIT, Room E25-111 (map) Panel Discussion moderated by Ian Condry
Artist Talk + Panel on Fukushima Activism, Postwar Pop, Intermedia Art and Global Hip-Hop
Artist Talk with Zeebra (Japanese hip-hop emcee) and Ian Condry, followed by presentations:
Marie Abe (BU) “Sounding Against Nuclear Power in Post-Fukushima Japan”
Miki Kaneda (Harvard) “Sonic Encounters Between Art and the Everyday in 1960s Japan”
Hiromu Nagahara (MIT) “The Politics of Pop Music Before J-Pop”
Murray Forman (NEU) “Move the Planet: Post-National Hip-Hop Diaspora”
8pm LIVE HIP-HOP from Tokyo, Japan @ Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, Cambridge, MA (no cover charge)
8pm WTF (Wallys Tuesday Funk, local funk jazz band)
9pm Miss Monday (hip-hop emcee and reggae legend from Tokyo)
10pm Guest DJ set by Zeebra (Tokyo-based emcee and international recording artist)
11p – 1a international dance party with DJ Ian C. and more . . .
Please note: Free and open to public (18+ event), 18-20 year-olds – please RSVP to Kevin McLellan (poet at mit dot edu)
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2/27 (Thurs)
5-7pm MIT, Room E14-633 (map) MIT Cool Japan / CMS Colloquium: “Music, Culture and Transformation” (Part 2)
Meredith Schweig (MIT) “Gender in Taiwanese Rap Music: Hope for the Future?”
Rebecca Dirksen (MIT) “A Musical Model for Development? Haiti’s Mizik Angaje Re-Imagined”
Moderated by Ian Condry (MIT)
7-8pm CMS headquarters, Public reception with the panelists, light food and drink
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MIT Foreign Languages & Literatures
For more information or press inquires: fll-events at mit dot edu