Emily Pinkerton plays a 25-string Chilean guitarron during the Annual Meeting for the Society for Ethnomusicology held at Wesleyan Oct. 25-28.
Eliot Bates MA '97, a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, plays an 'ud, a Middle-eastern instrument. More than 700 academic researchers, students, musicians and administrators gathered at the conference to discuss music and its influence.
Jeff Jones and Shannon Dudley perform on steel pans.
Gleide Cambria, a dancer from Brazil currently residing in Middletown, leads an Afro-Brazilian dance during the conference. (Photos by Bill Burkhart)
The Ethnomusicology Conference also was featured in the Oct. 6 Wesleyan Connection.
Olivia Drake
Olivia Drake
Steve Scarpa