Join us for the premiere of a new documentary, The Path, by Aibek Baiymbetov, an MA student in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, followed by a Q&A with the director. Thursday, March 27, 2025 — 4:30-6:00 pm — Olin 327B The performance of the Kyrgyz epic Manas represents as a vivid example of a living oral tradition … Read more
A mini-concert finale to Finding the Spirit of Inanga: A Gallery of African Musical Instruments at Olin Library Friday, February 28th, 2025 12:00pmSmith Reading Room, Olin Memorial LibraryFree and open to the public RSVP here: https://forms.office.com/r/Kq4qEa3ey2 (RSVPs encouraged but not required.) Join us as we celebrate the past year of Finding the Spirit of Inanga: … Read more
Monday, February 3, 2025 at noon Gribbel Room 202A, 2nd floor Olin Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown Free and open to the public Artists Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty present a talk at the closing of their sound installation Minute/Year (2016–present), which was installed in Olin Library throughout 2024. The U.S. premiere of the work … Read more
A staircase performance by MUSC 300 11/11/11 AM Olin Library | Music Staircase ‘Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears’, instructed Pauline Oliveros, in her Sonic Meditationsfrom 1970. As well as pushing at disciplinary, social, and institutional boundaries, the experimental initiatives of the 1960s and ’70s sought to cultivate greater sensory … Read more
Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 12-1 pmGribbel Room 202A, 2nd floor Olin Library Join us for a lunchtime concert with Dr. Karaikudi S. Subramanian, a ninth-generation vīṇā player from the renowned Karaikudi tradition, founder of the Brhaddhvani Research & Training Centre for Musics of the World, and Wesleyan alumnus (MA Music, 1977; PhD Ethnomusicology, 1985). … Read more
Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 3-4 pmGribbel Room 202A, 2nd floor Olin Library Renowned Burundian musician Steven Sogo will perform at Wesleyan on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 from 3-4 pm. His visit has been arranged by Chance Kinyange, MA’25, founder of the PVD World Music Institute (Providence, RI) and curator of the current exhibition in … Read more
To complement our current subscription to the Taylor and Francis Social Science and Humanities ejournal collection, the library has recently acquired perpetual access to the full ejournal backfile for the 196 of the Arts & Humanities ejournals published, back to volume 1. Click the link below to view the full title list and date coverage … Read more
To complement our current subscription to the Sage Premier ejournal collection, the library has recently acquired perpetual access to the full ejournal backfile from Sage Publishing, to provide full date coverage of all 800+ journals published, back to volume 1. Sage Publishing is well known for publishing in the social and behavioral sciences. Click the … Read more
The Library has a new subscription to the library version of the popular Ancestry.com database. In the Ancestry Library database you can search genealogical information from Census and Vital Records, birth, marriage and death notices, the Social Security Death Index, Passenger lists and naturalizations, Military and Holocaust Records, City Directories, New York Emigrant Savings Bank … Read more
Friday, May 24, 2024, 2-3pm Olin Library 014 The World Music Archives & Music Library at Wesleyan University, in collaboration with PVD World Music Institute (Providence, RI), is currently hosting the exhibition Finding the Spirit of Inanga: Musical Instruments from Africa in Olin Library. Come see and hear some of the instruments up close, and learn … Read more
