MEETING: Culture and Finance Capital
Elizabeth Freudenthal (English, UCSB).
Monday, February 14 / 2:00 PM / Free / Refreshments
IHC’s Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor

A reading group meeting of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) symposia series on Marxism/Post-Structuralism and Music. This session will discuss an essay by Fredric Jameson, Giovanni Arrighi's description and history of contemporary global capitalism, and Veit Erlmann's exploration of the impact of late capitalism on world musics.
This series sponsored by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) and the IHC

Readings: Fredric Jameson, "Culture and Finance Capital" (Critical Inquiry 1997); selections from Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century (Verso 1994); Veit Erlmann, "The Aesthetics ofthe Global Imagination: Reflections on World Music in the 1990s" (Public Culture 1996, 8(3) 467-487. On reserve at the Arts Library. This new series includes reading groups, lectures and symposia on Marxist, post-Marxist and post-structuralist theories for the interpretation of musical and other cultural practices, as well as Marxism as a model for shaping cultural practices. Refreshments will be provided.

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