Music Symposium starts tomorrow - Keynote at 7pm in Conrad Grebel Great Hall

[Angelica Allen]

[headshot][http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81EwFnL9WTL.jpg]Keynote Lecture



"Interrogating Music and Traumatic
Experience"



If music is organized sound, it can serve as a key resource for survivors of traumatic experiences who wish to organize inchoate sense experience into coherences of self, culture and society. Drawing primarily on thirteen years of research among survivors of the Japanese military "comfort women" system and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I discuss different ways music can be such a resource. I consider the place of music at the scene of traumatic experience; the use of music for expressing the 'unspeakable'; the use of music in creating coherent life-stories; the use of music to forge social connections against the alienation of traumatic experience, and the use of music in the pursuit of social functioning, among others.


Dr. Joshua D. Pilzer is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the anthropology of music in modern Korea and Japan, women's musical worlds, and the
relationships between music, survival, memory, traumatic experience, marginalization, public culture, mass media, social practice and identity. He is particularly interested in everyday musical practice as a life resource. He is the author of Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women" (Oxford, 2012) and since 2011 has been conducting fieldwork for his next book project, an ethnography of music and song among Korean victims of the atomic bombing of Japan and their children.


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