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Africa Remix: Producing and Presenting African Musics AbroadConference / Concert / DiscussionMahindra Humanities Center Seminar Conference Organized by “African Musics Abroad”Harvard University - February 8 2013info / posterCONFERENCE8:30am, Thompson Room, Barker CenterWelcome, 8:30amHomi K. Bhabha, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Producing Global Sounds, 9amChief Boima, “Africa is a Country"José da Silva , LUSAFRICABen Herson, Nomadic WaxChair: Patricia J. Tang, MITShaping Local Reception, 11amMaure Aronson, World Music/CRASHartsJacob Edgar , CumbanchaBanning Eyre, Afropop WorldwideRuss Gershon, Either/OrchestraChair: Carla D. Martin, Harvard UniversityCollaboration or Appropriation?: Issues in Remixing African Styles, 2pmSarah Hankins, Harvard UniversitySharon Kivenko , Harvard UniversityWarrick Moses, Harvard UniversityChair: Wayne Marshall, Harvard UniversityKeynote Address, 4pmFrancis Falceto, Free-lance editor and author“éthiopiques vs. ethioSonic: Sense and Nonsense in Musical Globalization”Chair: Kay K. Shelemay, Harvard UniversityCONCERT AND DISCUSSION8pm, Lowell HallDiscussion: Remixing Ethiopian MusicDanny Mekonnen, Debo BandChair: Kay K. Shelemay, Harvard UniversityConcert by Debo BandConcert is free, but tickets are required. Free tickets available Friday, January 25, 2013 at Harvard Box Office, 617-496-2222.Cosponsored with the Department of Music, Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Department of African and African American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and the Office for the Arts at Harvard.