On Campus Event: Lecture: “Called Upstairs: The Innuit Voice in Moravian Music, Tues. 3/26, 7PM (Kresge)

Lecture – Called Upstairs: The Inuit Voice in Moravian Music

Tuesday, March 26, 20197:00 PM — 8:30 PM,

Location:

Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Studies Center

Moravian missionaries used music when colonizing Labrador Inuit, who recast the music to express their own values. Professor Emeritus Tom Gordon, Memorial University of Newfoundland, will discuss working with Inuit musicians to document their unique musical heritage.

Free and open to the public, sponsored by the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center.