Pitt tabla instructor Samir Chatterjee and Chhandayan will present Music of India: Vocal Concert - Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande on Sunday, May 20, 2018 from 4-7 p.m. The concert takes place Frick Fine Arts Auditorium and features:

Vocal - Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande
Tabla - Suryaksha Deshpande
Harmonium - Kedar Naphade

The main performance will be preceded by a tabla solo by Pitt student Vikram Jeet Mukherjee.

Betty! They Say I’m Different (Native Voice Films, 2017) is a documentary for which PhD candidate Danielle Maggio was associate producer. The film will be screened multiple times in Pittsburgh beginning on February 25^th through March 3:

Sunday, Feb. 25^th at 7 p.m. at the August Wilson Center as part of the Black Bottom Film Festival (facebook event)

Ethnomusicology graduate student Shuo Yang’s article “Rocking the Tradition or Traditionalizing Rock?” A Music Performance on Chinese Reality Show China Star” has been published in Ethnomusicology Review. Yang explores the reactions to two performances of pop singer Tan Weiwei in which the star singer blends driving rock style with the traditional Huayin Laoqiang opera. The first performance took place on China Star and emphasized modern rock elements.

Two ethnomusicology graduate students, Wangcaixuan Zhang and Hei Ting Wong, have contributed articles to the October 2017 newsletter of the Association of Chinese Music Research.

Zhang’s article, “Learning to Become a Buddhist: Performative Ethnography in Religious Music Research,” explores the music of the Buddhist movement known as Tzu Chi and details her research through becoming a practitioner. She writes,

Doctoral candidate Danielle Maggio's research on blues singer Betty Davis is now featured on explorepartsunknown.com, the companion Web site to Anthony Bordain's CNN series Parts Unknown.