The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), Columbia College, Chicago, in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras and the Institute of Caribbean Studies, presents the conference “Black Music Diaspora: Focus on the Caribbean” on June 19-20. The conference will take place at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, in Auditorium 108, Carmen Rivera Alvarado Building (CRA), School of Social Sciences.
The conference brings together a distinguished group of presenters, consisting of Caribbeanist scholars from the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and the United States, whose professional backgrounds and interests span several disciplines, including musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, sociology, folklore, religious studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and history. Speakers will include Raquel Z. Rivera, Brenda Berrian, Kenneth Bilby, and Ángel Quintero Rivera. The conference and discussions will be pan-Caribbean in scope.
[To be announced with other special events are Music and Dialog@COPI (Corporación Piñones se integra) and Four Hundred Years of Music in Santurce: A Conversation with its Musicians.]
The registration fee is $75.00 for regular registration and $50.00 for students and retirees. The fee includes admission to all sessions and special events.
Attendees may register on line at www.colum.edu/2009sanjuan
