Word: capello
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After briefly exploring the notion of pursuing a joint degree in Music and Economics, Capello returned in his junior year to concentrate in the "Culture and Personality" Social Studies track. "It was the best choice of my undergraduate career," he now says...
...Capello became interested in the meanings that different cultures invest in music. Sociological, political and anthropological theories of how we define different cultural and ethnic traditions--and the study of ethnomusicology, in particular--interested him. Questions about why and how a piece of music was performed in different cultures (a difference he noticed first-hand in jazz was performances at LSU and Southern), and about the perceptions and forms of different musical traditions, drove him farther from a narrowly-defined study of music...
...Capello's senior honors thesis, "Defining Jazz as America's Classical Music: The Implications for a New American Identity," was based on his work last summer with the Jazz at Lincoln Center program. The thesis posited that Lincoln Center's adoption of jazz as a full constituent in its program represented the first legitimation of a uniquely American musical achievement as classical, high art. Capello believes that jazz, in borrowing from many different musical traditions, reflects a new source for a multicultural American identity...
...same time, however, Capello cautions against what he sees as the worst thing about Harvard: "This school spends no time trying to develop an ethic of learning from others-- especially from those who didn't go to an Ivy League school." Although Harvard's intellectual elitism might be seen by some to be a form of meritocracy, for Capello it isn't enough to justify the feeling of an elite: socio-economic status makes opportunities like attending Harvard available to some more than to others. Although he finds the College diverse, he says he is troubled to find among Harvard...