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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Bringing the stage to the classroom

21T.100 (Theater Arts Production) gathers MIT students, faculty, staff, and other professionals to produce feature-length performances.

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

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 master’s program in computer science at MIT.