At Open House first-year students have a chance to meet with music faculty and consider options for the coming year. Returning students can reconnect and find out what’s new. It is a great opportunity for all to explore the possibilities: music courses, lessons, and ensembles. Come see who is making music at Williams!

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2024 Music Open House/Audition and Placement Info

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As the preeminent African musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia noted in 1961, meaning in African music exists as a series of modes and perspectives rather than as one static and unified concept. Accordingly, one must examine the multitude of statements, interpretations, and relationships associated with musical performance and practice. Moreover, one must treat these elements as fundamental aspects of the way musical meanings take shape rather than as tangential details (Nketia 1961, 5). With these points in mind, this talk explores varied meanings of power relations in songs previously composed and performed in the royal court of the Ugandan Kingdom of Buganda. Problematizing the relationship between the repertoire’s multiplicity of meanings and their relevance in twenty-first century Uganda, the lecture argues that the songs live in a dialogue with modern politics.

Williams College Music Departmen

Sep 4, 2024

2024 Music Open House/Audition and Placement Info

Apr 4, 2024

Professor Damascus Kafumbe - Class of 1960 Music Lecture

Williams College Music Departmen