Screening of “The Path”: a film by Aibek Baiymbetov

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

Deo Salvator, Rwandan guitar virtuoso

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

American Radio Art at the End of the Millenium

This guest post for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage was written by Stuart Wheeler, MA ‘21, who has spent the past several months working with the World Music Archives as well as Special Collections & Archives to help process collections from contemporary American composers including John Cage and Ned Sublette. One of his projects was … Read more