José Torres, doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, was awarded the 2019 Diversity Dissertation Fellowship at Hiram College.

This month the ethnomusicology students organized and performed in the annual Hear the World Concert on March 2. This year's concert featured music from West Africa, Taiwan, Guatemala, China, Venezuela, and India. Ethnomusicology Ph.D. student Meng Ren received the Ricco Ethics Award as part of the annual essay competition. The ethnomusicology graduate students Yang Chen, Miguel Espinel, Salvador Hernandez, Stacey Key, Yuxin Mei, and Jose Torres presented papers at the Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern Plains regional conference, held at UT Austin on March 30. Their papers were well-received and they did a great job representing UNT's growing ethnomusicology program. MA student Thanmayee Krishnamurthy performed as part of the program "Samapanam" in honor of a master sculptor, the late T. N. Padmanabhan. The event was hosted by Dallas Namadhwar on March 30.

Please join us for the twenty-second annual African Cultural Festival of Traditional Ethnic Music and Dance on Saturday, March 30th at 8:00 pm in Voertman Concert Hall.  General admission is $10.  

The UNT Chinese Ensemble presented their Fall Concert: Music from Chinese Films on Friday, November 30th at 8:00 pm.

The UNT African Percussion Ensemble Presents: Rhythms and Dances of Africa.  Directed by Prof. Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie.  Wednesday, November 14th at 6:30 pm in Voertman Concert Hall.  $5 General Admission. 

Please join us for Dr. Hettie Malcomson's lecture: "Negotiating Violence and Creative Agency in Commissioned Mexican Narco-Rap” on Wednesday, November 7th at 4:00 pm in Music 321.  There will be a reception to follow in the Graham Green Room.

Dr. Virani's chapter "Casteism and Cultural Capital: Social and Spiritual Reform through Kabir-Singing in North India" was published in the interdisciplinary volume Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives, published in September by Rowman and Littlefield.