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This Sunday on Offstage, On-Air, Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in the UVA Music Department, Jade Conlee, will join us to discuss Hawai‘i exotica and its progression in popular culture. Conlee has drawn on archival and ethnographic research to position exotica as a sonic cartography. She considers exotica in relation to three Hawai‘i geographies: the resort, the plantation, and the forest.

Jade Conlee is a pianist who specializes in antiracist and anticolonial approaches to the history of American popular music, jazz, and music theory. Her research works broadly across the music disciplines and engages with Black studies, Indigenous studies, and the environmental humanities to ask how music and sound mediate our relationships to race, place, and the natural world.

Listen to Offstage, On-Air every Sunday in on 91.1FM or stream at wtju.net. You can also listen to the rebroadcast the following Tuesday at 9 p.m. and Friday at 1 p.m. on charlottesvilleclassical.org.

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