Questions About Music Colloquium Event Notice

Dear All,

You are cordially invited to this term’s last episode of Questions About Music (QAM), the
colloquium series of the Music Department at the University of Alberta, in Canada. All the
events in this series take place at 3.30 pm MST in Studio 2-7, Fine Arts Building, but are
also live streamed and remain on our YouTube channel.

On Thursday April 24 we are delighted to welcome William Cheng (Dartmouth College) in a
conversation about “Ways Back to Loving Music” hosted by Fabio Morabito
(University of Alberta).

An avid gamer and lifelong pianist-improviser, Cheng is the founding co-editor of the Music
& Social Justice Series with the University of Michigan Press. He has written
extensively on video games and the musical imagination; on the social responsibility of
musicians and music scholars; and on how our love for music can hurt others, in his
ground-breaking Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford 2019), a powerful book on the complex
dynamics of love of music and persons in our historical moment.

Here the link of the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/gDjLpBIwFvE

Questions About Music is a forum for people across specialisms and stages of learning, as
well as different kinds of musical journeys (undergraduates, graduates, faculty, performers,
composers, teachers, music theorists, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, alumni, music
aficionados, listeners, members of the broader Edmonton community and beyond) to come
together, debate and connect. What distinguishes Questions About Music from other colloquium
series is that, instead of having our guest speakers give formal paper presentations, we
invite them to converse with us and, towards the end, with audience members.

I hope to see you then, on-line or in person. And if you have questions about the series
don’t hesitate to send them my way: morabito@ualberta.ca

All the very best,
Fabio Morabito

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Dr Fabio Morabito
Assistant Professor of Musicology
Department of Music
University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is located on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First
Nations and Metis people.

OUT NOW: Fabio Morabito, Kate van Orden, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Tom Stammers,
Erin Johnson-Williams, “On Keeping Things as Books,” Critical Inquiry 51/2
(2025), 365-396.