My final project will engage with multiple folk music traditions and their entanglements in New York City, inspired by and drawing from Tara Laraway’s recent performance of “Soiré Velez” with Bárbara Martinez and others at KGB. In a fifteen-minute performance…
Mass in Exile and translation within music
This winter, I briefly joined a classical choir in the city, and although I wasn’t able to sing with the group for the season, I spent some time rehearsing the repertoire they were developing. The pieces included Mass in Exile,…
La Vara
Intrigued by the database of non-English newspapers at the NYPL, I decided to spend some time on the website to notice what was there and think about what was not. My interest in Jewish diaspora studies compelled me to look…
