Professors Patricia Tang and Ellen Harris both have newly-published essays in "Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music," ed. Ingrid T. Monson, Carol J. Oja, and Richard K. Wolf," a collection of essays in honor of Kay Kaufman Shelemay (official publication date January 2018): Harris, "Interrogating the Dead: An Ethnography of Eighteenth-Century London," 3-17; Tang, "Communities on the Move: Griots, Mobility, and New Lineages," 107-121.

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Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a mast

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …” 

FUTURE PHASES showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance

Music technology took center stage at MIT during “FUTURE PHASES,” an evening of works for string orchestra and electronics, presented by the