TALK: Waves of Performance: Surf Music, Surf as Dance
Timothy Cooley & Judy Bauerlein
Tuesday, December 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free
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Surf music? Dick Dale, the Beach Boys and fun in the sun. Yes, but surf music is much more than that. Tim Cooley’s talk presents a broad interpretation of surf music as a viable music genre expressive of a changing beach culture. Cooley is a surfer and Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at UCSB. Scholar Judy Bauerlein extends the analysis of surfing to yet another arena: she looks at the “dance-like” performance on the waves by female surfers. Her talk explores the affinity of surfing with ballet and modern dance, as well as the persistence of gender stereotypes. Bauerlein is a graduate student in the Department of Dramatic Art, a solo performer and a surfer. Presented by the IHC’s
Performance Studies Research Focus Group.

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