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Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
four faculty faces

Four Penn faculty have been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are (left to right, top to bottom) Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English, all in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Four faculty have been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows—Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Composing an interplay of music and language 
Student sitting at grand piano

A Ph.D. candidate in music, composer-pianist Ania Vu brings her Vietnamese roots, Polish upbringing, and experience studying in America to her music compositions and poetic lyrics. She is now writing the music and the libretto of an original opera for her doctoral dissertation, to be premiered in Philadelphia. 

Composing an interplay of music and language 

A Ph.D. candidate in music, composer-pianist Ania Vu brings her Vietnamese roots, Polish upbringing, and experience studying in America to her music compositions and lyrics. She is now writing an original opera for her doctoral dissertation, to be premiered in Philadelphia.
Understanding migration and the arts
Children raising their hands with a rainbow in the background

Children at the gardens of the Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación’s new location at 1246 West Main St. Norristown, Pennsylvania, in fall 2021. The organization, founded by Obed Arango of the School of Social Policy & Practice, is a nonprofit with a mission “to ignite social transformation developing the talents and empowering the Latinx community through education, culture, art, technology, health, and science.” (Image: Obed Arango)

Understanding migration and the arts

In the latest episode of Penn Today’s “Understand This …” podcast series, Obed Arango of the School of Social Policy & Practice, alongside Wolf Humanities Graduate Fellow Shelley Zhang, discuss migration, the arts, and identity.
Rereleasing ‘Red’: On Taylor Swift’s latest album and music copyright
Taylor Swift

Writer-director Taylor Swift attends a premiere for the short film “All Too Well” at AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in New York. (Image: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

  • Q&A

    • Rereleasing ‘Red’: On Taylor Swift’s latest album and music copyright

    Cynthia Dahl, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and director of the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, discusses music copyright and the Swift controversy.

    Kristen de Groot

    Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records
    DJ Kid Charlemagne spins records at a turntable, a pool table is behind him.

    DJ Kid Charlemagne, aka Antoine Haywood. (Image: Annenberg School for Communication)

    Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records

    As part of his ongoing exploration into multimodal scholarship, doctoral student Antoine Haywood pairs his newly published autoethnographic essay with a curated soundtrack.

    From Annenberg School for Communication

    Understanding civic engagement
    Civic House exterior with foliage

    Civic House. (Image: Eric Sucar)

    Understanding civic engagement

    In the latest episode of Penn Today’s ‘Understand This …’ podcast series, Herman Beavers of the School of Arts & Sciences and Glenn Bryan of the Office of Government and Community Affairs discuss civic engagement—and jazz.
    ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ merges nature with classical music
    Man with cello outside with child dancing

    Alarm Will Sound will perform at the Morris Arboretum in September. (Image: Alan Pierson)

    ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ merges nature with classical music

    Penn Live Arts kicks off its fall season with the local premiere of “Ten Thousand Birds” given by modern chamber music ensemble Alarm Will Sound in an outdoor performance at Morris Arboretum’s Bloomberg Farm

    Kristina García

    What was the earliest music?

    What was the earliest music?

    Mary Channen Caldwell of the School of Arts & Sciences said there’s evidence of written music from as early as 1400 BC. “The western musical notation that is often, if misleadingly, considered ‘standard,’” she said, “is only one possible system for recording music, and can only reasonably be used to notate musical works that follow certain conventions of pitch, rhythm, harmony, etc.”