The Society for Ethnomusicology

Forty-fifth Annual Meeting

November 2-5, 2000

Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections


Conference Program


Note: This schedule has been updated from the version published in the SEM Newsletter, September 2000. Most sessions have two numbers: the number that will appear in the Toronto program book, and (in parentheses) the preliminary number as given in the Newsletter. The program book will not contain the errors in diacritics that may have turned up in this web site version.

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THURSDAY (11/2)
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
6:00 - 10:00 p.m.   Board of Directors Meeting  
       
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2
8:00 a.m. - 12 noon   Board of Directors Meeting  
       
       
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Sessions 2-15 through 2-20
   

2-15 (1A) Dynamics of Performance
Chair: Carol Ann Muller (University of Pennsylvania)

 
       
    8:30 Buloo! Buloo! Buloo! ("Clap Your Hands!"): the Moment Where "I" Becomes "Us" in a Gambian Performance
Todd Caschetta (University of California-Santa Barbara)

9:00 Music and Teleological Judgment: an Example on the Korean DMZ
Joshua Pilzer (University of Chicago)

9:30 "Simply Imitating the Words": Gendered Interpretations of Song Poetry in an Egalitarian Society
Richard M. Moyle (University of Auckland)

10:00 Performing Liminality: Disc-Jockeys and the Construction of Ritual in Toronto's Rave and Club Subcultures
Morgan Gerard (University of Toronto)

 
       
   

2-16 (1B) Cultural Politics of Broadcasting and Funding
Chair: Melinda Russell (Carleton College)

 
       
   

8:30 The Interaction of Politics and Performance at WFHB
Brian Goodman (Indiana University)

9:00 Preserving Cultural Identity: WPAQ Radio and the Dissemination of Mountain Music
David Pruett (Florida State University)

9:30 The State as Guarantor of Artistic Freedom? How Different Funding Sources Affect Artistic Decision Making: a Case Study of German State-funded Opera Houses
Ulrike Sailer (New York University)

10:00 Playing to Survive: a Year in the Life of the Toledo Symphony
Steven Cornelius (Bowling Green State University)

 
       
   

2-17 (1C) Diasporic Musical Practices in Canada and the United States
Chair: Theodore Solís (Arizona State University)

 
       
   

8:30 The Bandura on the Wall: the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in the American Diaspora
Laurie R. Semmes (Florida State University)

9:00 Identity Politics and Western Canadian Ukrainian Musics: Globalizing the Local or Localizing the Global?
Marcia Ostashewski (York University, Toronto)

10:00 The Search for Korean Identity through Korean Farmers' Band Music in Hawai'i
Kim Myo Sin (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

10:30 Discussion

 
       
   

2-18 (1D) Appropriations, Adaptations, Responses
Chair: Kelly Askew (University of Michigan)

 
       
   

8:30 Urban Appropriation of Rural and Coastal Musical Folklore in Caracas, Venezuela
Joseph Lubben (Oberlin College Conservatory of Music)

9:00 Reconstructing Identity: Appropriation and Representation of Kulintang in the United States
Mary G. Talusan (University of California-Los Angeles)

9:30 Music and Dance in the Orthodox Jewish Community in NY
Mark Kligman (Hebrew Union College)
Jill Gellerman-Pandey (New York University)

10:00 Possessing the Unpossessable: How a Song, a Splash, a Plant, and a Patent Could Alter the Definition and Protection of the Third World's Intellectual Properties
E. Michael Harrington (Belmont University)

 
       
   

2-19 (1E) Cultural Constructions of Time in South Asian Musical Cultures
Organizer and Chair: Richard Kent Wolf (Harvard University)
Discussant: Lewis Rowell (Indiana University)

 
       
   

8:30 Time and Meaning in Kota Ritual and Musical Culture
Richard Kent Wolf (Harvard University)

8:50 Folk Grooves and Tabla Tals
James Kippen (University of Toronto)

9:10 Modernity, Ideology, and Performance Time in Hindustani Classical Music
David Trasoff (California State University-San Marcos)

9:30 Time and Raga in the Music of Modern India
George Ruckert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

9:50 Response by Lewis Rowell

 
       
   

2-20 (1F) Recontextualizations and Revivals
Chair: Shannon Dudley (University of Washington)

 
       
   

8:30 Tradition, Rebellion, and Celebrity: Hindustani Music as Transcultural Narrative
Kaye Lubach (University of California-Los Angeles)

9:00 Confucianism and Western Classical Music in Korea
Okon Hwang (Eastern Connecticut State University / Wesleyan University)

9:30 Land Beyond the Wave: The Revival of Irish Music and Dance in Milwaukee
Erin Stapleton-Corcoran (University of Chicago)

10:00 "Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler!": Cajun Music Festivals and Cultural Revival
Ashleigh D'Aunoy (Florida State University)

 
       
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon. Session 2-1.
   

Joint Session with CMS and SAM: Music and Society in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Organizer and Chair: Robin Moore (Temple University)

 
       
   

"The History and Social Meanings of Jazz Band Performance in Cuba, 1930-1959"
Leonardo Acosta (Havana, Cuba)

"Discourse about Music in the Writings of Fernando Ortiz, 1906-1955"
Robin Moore (Temple University)

"Music, Technology, and Folklore in Post-Revolutionary Cuba"
Andrew Schloss (University of Victoria)

"From the Negrito to the Negro Tragico: Black Masculinity in the Cuban Zarzuela"
Susan Thomas (Brandeis/Tufts University)

 

 
       
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Sessions 2-21 through 2-26
   

2-21 (2A) Ethnomusicology as Genre and Practice, I. Interrogating Music Histories
Chair: Martin H. Stokes (University of Chicago)

 
       
   

11:00 A Lesson in Histories: Turkish Vocal Instruction at the Turn of the Centuries
John Morgan O'Connell (University of Limerick)

11:30 Devis, Dasas, and Devi Dasas: One of the (Many?) Missing Musical Links in Indian Ethnomusicology
Nazir A. Jairazbhoy (University of California-Los Angeles)

12:00 500 Years of Music in Brazil: Com-Memoration or Brainwashing?
Gerard Béhague (University of Texas at Austin)

12:30 Interpreting Musical Hybridity in South African Townships Fifty Years On
Lara Allen (Cambridge University)

 
       
   

2-22 (2B) Guitar Cultures
Organizers and Co-Chairs: Andrew Bennett (University of Surrey) and Kevin Dawe (The Open University)

 
       
   

11:00 Plug It In and Play!: U.K. "Indie-Guitar" Culture
Andrew Bennett (University of Surrey)

11:30 Unplugged: Blues Guitarists and the Myth of Acousticity
Peter Narvaez (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

12:00 Handmade in Spain: the Culture of Guitar Making
Kevin Dawe (The Open University)

12:30 The Tinkering Virtuoso: Les Paul, Eddie Van Halen, and the Technology of the Electric Guitar
Steve Waksman (Miami University, Ohio)

 
       
   

2-23 (2C) Old Music and Dance for New Needs: Local Performative Responses to New African Realities
Sponsored by the African Music Caucus of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Organizer and Chair: Daniel B. Reed (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Discussant: Michelle Kisliuk (University of Virginia)

 
       
   

11:00 "I Am a Farmer, I Carry a Hoe, I Am a Dancer, I Twirl a Hoe": the
Emergence of Musical Farming Societies in Northwest Tanzania
Frank Gunderson (University of Michigan)

11:30 The Death of Mganda?: Continuity and Transformation in Matengo Music
Stephen Hill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

12:00 Dancing in the Votes: Politics and Tradition in the 1999 Political Campaign in Malawi
Lisa Gilman (Indiana University)

12:30 Pop Goes the Sacred: Dan Mask Performers and Popular Culture in Post-Colonial Côte d'Ivoire
Daniel B. Reed (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

 
       
   

2-24 (2D) Musical Hybridization, I. Varieties of Inter-cultural Composition and Musicking
Chair: Leslie C. Gay, Jr. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

 
       
   

11:00 Pentatonic Sonority and Serialism: a Study of Hybridization in Chinese Contemporary Concert Music
Nancy Rao (Rutgers University)

11:30 Composing Interculturalism: Jin Hi Kim, National Musics and Imagined Traditions
Jason Stanyek (University of California-San Diego)

12:00 Tribes Unlimited: Crossing Cultures with Adam and the Ants
Theo Cateforis (College of William and Mary)

12:30 "Jewsapalooza": Postmodern Jazz Meets New York's "Jewish Alternative Movement"
Tamar Barzel (University of Michigan)

 
       
   

2-25 (2E) Politics, Poetics, and Strategies of Teaching Chinese Music at and beyond its National Borders
Co-Chairs: Su Zheng (Wesleyan University) and J. Lawrence Witzleben (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 
       
   

11:00 Chinese Music, American College Students, and Ethnomusicology Professors
Joseph S.C. Lam (University of Michigan)

11:30 Familiar Themes in Unfamiliar Territory: Diversity in Contemporary Chinese Music and Culture
Sue Tuohy (Indiana University)

12:00 Re-mystifying the Mundane: Teaching Chinese Music in Hong Kong
J. Lawrence Witzleben (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

12:30 Can't Learning Chinese Music Be Fun?: the Role of Creativity and Participation
Su Zheng (Wesleyan University)

 
       
   

2-26 (2F) Grounds for Singing
Chair: Margarita L. Mazo (The Ohio State University)

 
       
   

11:00 Zenne sarkilar: Songs about Women and for Women
Rajna Klaser (University of California-Berkeley)

11:30 Chanting the Songs of Our Mothers: Empowering Filipino Women through the Pasyon
Pamela Grace Costes (University of Washington)

12:00 Vodou Singing and Ethics for a New Century
Rebecca Sager (University of Texas at Austin)

12:30 From Ethnomusicology to Symbolic Anthropology: the Case of Mande Praise-Singing
Alex Enkerli (Indiana University)

 
       
 
12:30-1:45 p.m.   Concert of South Indian Classical Music
T. Viswanathan, flute and vocal; Trichy Sankaran, mrdangam
 
   

 

 
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.   SEM Committee on the Status of Women
SEM Long Range Planning Committee
SEM Publications Advisory Committee
SEM Development Committee
 
   

 

 
       
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Session 2-59.
   

Posters

 
       
    First Peoples' Music and Dance in Canada: a Resource Guide on CD-ROM
Elaine Keillor (Carleton University)

Music Learning among Black Creole Accordion Players in Southwest Louisiana
Christopher J. Della Pietra (Southeastern Louisiana University)

 
       
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Session 2-29 (3A)
   

Joint session with IASPM
Chair: Portia K. Maultsby (Indiana University)
Discussants: Carol M. Babiracki (Syracuse University)
René T.A. Lysloff (University of California-Riverside)René T.A. Lysloff (University of California-Riverside)

 
       
   

2:00 If Ethnography's the Answer, What Was the Question?
Geoff Stahl (McGill University)

2:30 Ethnographic Misadventures in Local "Musicking"
Holly Everett (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

3:00 Response to Stahl and Everett
Carol M. Babiracki (Syracuse University)

3:30 Big Sounds from Big People: the Global Economy of Pop Music Production Aesthetics
Frederick Moehn (New York University)

4:00 Global or Local: Finding a Middle Ground for Malaysian Advertisement Music
Stephanie Sook-Lynn Ng (University of Michigan)

4:30 Response to Moehn and Ng
René T.A. Lysloff (University of California-Riverside)

 
       
2:30 - 5:00 p.m. Sessions 2-60 and 2-61
   

2-60 (3B) A Three-Dimensional Model of Postmodern Musical Experience
Organizer and Chair: Timothy Rice (University of California-Los Angeles)

 
       
    2:30 Metaphor, Space, and Time: a Postmodern View of Music in General and Bulgarian Traditional Music in Particular
Timothy Rice (University of California-Los Angeles)

3:00 The Heritage of Portuguese Rural Expressive Culture in the Twentieth Century
Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

3:30 Road Test for a New Model: the Postmodern, the Postcolonial, and Korean Ch'anggûk Opera
Andrew Killick (The Florida State University)

4:00 Making the New Old: Performing the Past in Lubavitcher Music
Ellen Koskoff (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)

4:30 Rethinking Consciousness, Rethinking Music
David Elliott (University of Toronto)

 
       
   

2-61 (3C) Musical Hybridization, I. Reconfigurations
Chair: Gregory Barz (Vanderbilt University)

 
       
   

2:30 From Difference to Fusion: Constructions of "Indian" and "Western" Music
Martin Clayton (The Open University)

3:00 The Role of Place in Punk-Country Music
Steven Curtis (Cornell University)

3:30 Tropical Discourses: Latino Unity and Ruben Blades's Music(s)
Jairo Moreno (Duke University)

4:00 "Choques" (Culture Clashes): the Effects of Music Commercialization and World Travel on an Indigenous Community in the Northern Andes
Juniper Hill (University of California-Los Angeles)

4:30 Reggae on the Silk Road (On Globalisation and Survival)
Rachel Harris (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

 
       
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Session 2-62 through 2-64
   

2-62 (3D) Transmission and Transformation
Chair: Judith Becker (University of Michigan)

 
       
   

2:30 Changing and Not Changing: Inuit Drum Songs and their Transmission
Norma Vascotto (University of Toronto)

3:00 Transmittable and Transmutable Aspects of Improvisation in Balinese Music
Made Mantle Hood (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

3:30 The Development of a Sanjo School: a Case Study of the Kim Yun-duk Kayagum Sanjo
Hee-sun Kim (University of Pittsburgh)

4:00 It's All in the Raga: the Musical Basis of a Gharana's Identity
Stephen Slawek (University of Texas at Austin)

 
       
   

2-63 (3E) Musical Practices as Signifiers of Identity
Chair: Cheryl L. Keyes (University of California-Los Angeles)

 
       
   

2:30 The Vanishing Pia Reappears
Andrew Shahriari (Kent State University)

3:00 Drum Talk: Sweet and Tasty Rhythms for the Orichas in Havana and Matanzas
Katherine Hagedorn (Pomona College)

3:30 Powwows and Identity on the Piedmont and Coastal Plains of North Carolina
Chris Goertzen (Earlham College)

4:00 Music as a Signifier of Hybrid Cultural Identity: A Comparative Study of the North American and European Rainbow Gatherings
Ellen Waterman (Trent University)

 
       
   

2-64 (3F) Issues in the Study of Performance Practice
Chair: Scott L. Marcus (University of California-Santa Barbara)

 
       
   

2:30 "Hit That Drum, Girl" (Dale, nina, al pandero): Performance Practice Changes in Iberian Drumming
Judith Cohen (York University, Toronto)

3:00 The "Amateur" Performer: Chinese Street Opera, Confucianism and Cultural Ideology in Singapore
Lee Tong Soon (University of Durham)

3:30 When an Opera Tradition Modernizes: Vietnamese Cai Lu'o'ng Opera in Video
Mercedes Dujunco (New York University)

4:00 Ornamentation in the Commercial Klezmer Recordings of Jewish-American Immigrant Clarinetists in the 1920s
Joel Rubin (City University, London)

 
       
4:30-6:30 p.m. Session 2-65.
    Films  
       
   

4:30 Tan-Singing of Trinidad and Guyana: Indo-Caribbean "Local-Classical Music"
Peter Manuel (Graduate Center and John Jay College, City University of New York)

5:30 "Our Stories, Our Songs": Musical Autobiographies of North Indian Women
Amelia Maciszewski (University of Texas at Austin)

 
       
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.   Committee on Applied Ethnomusicology Society for Asian Music Board Meeting  
       
7:30-8:30 p.m.   The Body Meets the Board.  
   

Chaired by Bonnie C. Wade, President of the Society for Ethnomusicology, with Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Past-President; Carol M. Babiracki, First Vice-President; Stephen M. Slawek, Second Vice-President; Deborah A. Wong, Secretary; Terry E. Miller, Treasurer; Ingrid Monson and R. Anderson Sutton, Members-at-Large

 
       
8:00 - 11:00 p.m.   Association for Chinese Music Research  
       
8:00 p.m.   Concert of Bhutanese Music  
       
8:00 p.m.   Concert of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Turkish Art and Folk Music  

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3

7:00 - 8:30 a.m.   Local Arrangements and Program Committees: SEM 2000 and 2001  
       
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Sessions 3-29 through 3-34
   

3-29 (4A) Ethnomusicology as Genre and Practice, III. Presenting and Documenting
Chair: Jennifer Post (Middlebury College)

 
       
   

8:30 Why Pack the Camera? Microethnographic Analysis of Videotape in the Practice of Ethnomusicology
Laura Lohman (University of Pennsylvania)

9:00 Presenting Musical Lives: the Senior Musician Project of Santa Cruz County, California
Janet Herman (Community Music School of Santa Cruz)

9:30 Virtual Fluency: an Experiment in "Thick" Translation of Songs
J. Martin Daughtry (University of California-Los Angeles)

10:00 Discussion

 
       
   

3-30 (4B) Keeping It Real: Ethnomusicology in, as, and for Multicultural Music Education
Sponsored by the Education Committee of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Organizer and Chair: Michael B. Bakan (Florida State University)

 
       
   

8:30 Teaching the Intangibles: Creating Balinese Time and Groove in the Multicultural Classroom
Michael B. Bakan (Florida State University)

9:00 A Light Touch, Please: Mastering Native American Improvisation and Ornamentation in the Multicultural Classroom
J. Bryan Burton (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)

9:30 Batá Drumming Cuban Style: the Beat Goes On
Robert Stephens (University of Connecticut)

10:00 Music, Transmission, and Education: Contemporary Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Forging of the Field of Comparative Music Education
David G. Hebert (University of Washington)

 
       
   

3-31 (4C) Ethnomusicology of the Body
Chair: Susan Pratt Walton (University of Michigan)

 
       
   

8:30 "Como se toca se baila, como se baila se toca": Syncopation and Spatio-Motor Movement in Changüí
Benjamin Lapidus (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

9:00 H'an and Shin-myông: an Aesthetic of Affect and the Body in Korean Folk Music
Gloria Lee (New York University)

9:30 Hearing their Voices: Embodiment, Role Modeling, and Native Women Performers
Elyse Carter Vosen (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 Constructing the "Natural" Hegemonies of the Body
Kati Szego (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

 
       
   

3-32 (4D) Theorizing Popular Music and the Nation-State
Sponsored by the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Chair: Donna A. Buchanan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 
       
   

8:30 Representing Cuban and Afrocuban Identities
Lisa Maya Knauer (New York University)

9:00 The Case of the Deviant Diva: Singer Misora Hibari as Symbol of Postwar Japan
Christine R. Yano (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

9:30 Kadongokamu: Popular Music Style of Uganda
James Makubuya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:00 Countering Unity, Singing Diversity: Popular Music in Multicultural Taiwan
Nancy Guy (University of California-San Diego)

 
       
   

3-33 (4E) Aboriginal, First Nations, and Native American Popular Music on Stage and in the Studio: Producing the Ideology and Imagery of Expressive Alliances
Organizer and Chair: Beverley Diamond (York University, Toronto)

 
       
   

8:30 Empty Tipi Blues: Native Blues Expression in Southwest Oklahoma
James E. Cunningham (Cameron University)

9:00 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Women Singers in the Recording Studio
Beverley Diamond (York University, Toronto)

9:30 "Our Home, Our Land…Something to Sing About": an Indigenous Music Recording as Identity Narrative
Karl Neuenfeldt and Kathleen Oine (Central Queensland University)

10:00 Sounding Native: a Comparison of Powwow and Contemporary Native Music Production Aesthetics
Christopher A. Scales (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 
       
   

3-34 (4F) Music Makers and Audiences in the Internet Age
Chair: Mark F. DeWitt

 
       
   

8:30 Indian Pop and the Internet Music Market
Alison Arnold (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

9:00 Web Jefes: Performing la Mujer in Mariachi
Candida F. Jaquez (Indiana University)

9:30 Osborne vs. the Vienna Philharmonic: Grassroots Activism in Cyberspace
Susan Hurley-Glowa (Center of Independent Scholars, Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, New York)

10:00 Discussion

 
       
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Sessions 3-35 through 3-40
   


3-35 (5A) Ethnomusicology in the Public Interest
Sponsored by the Applied Ethnomusicology Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology Organizer and Chair: Jeff Todd Titon (Brown University)

 
       
   

11:00 Practice, Product, Philosophy, and the Proto-Public Ethnomusicology of Laura Boulton
John Fenn (Indiana University)

11:30 A Sidi CD? Media, Tourism, and Development among African-Indians
Amy Catlin (University of California-Los Angeles)

12:00 Walking a Fine Line: Addressing Multiple Audiences in the Presentation of Filipino-American Transnational Culture
Tom Van Buren (Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York)

12:30 The World According to PTA Enrichment Committees: Supply and Demand in Multicultural Arts Programs
Clifford Sloane (Northwest Folklife)

 
       
   

3-36 (5B) Musical Hybridization, II. The Black Atlantic
Chair: Paul Austerlitz (Brown University)

 
       
   

11:00 Hybridity in Ghanaian Reggae-Highlife
Thomas Beardslee (Ohio State University)

11:30 Nigerian Rap: Reinterpretation of an African American Musical Tradition
Stephanie Shonekan (Indiana University)

12:00 Cross-Cultural Experimentalism: Grupo Afro-Cuba de Matanzas and Steve Coleman's Mystic Rhythm Society
Michael Dessen (University of California-San Diego)

12:30 Popular Music and Créolité in Martinique
Dominique Cyrille (Lehman College, City University of New York)

 
       
   

3-37 (5C) Performing the Deep Past
Chair: T.M. Scruggs (University of Iowa)

 
       
   

11:00 Chinggis Khan and the Construction of Modern Mythologies in Mongolian Rock and Pop Music
Peter K. Marsh (Indiana University)

11:30 The Re-Africanization of Afro-Cuban Religion: Yoruba Reversionism and Cuban Orisha Worship
Kevin Delgado (University of California-Los Angeles)

12:00 The Arab Musical Aesthetic in Indonesian Islam
Anne K. Rasmussen (College of William and Mary)

12:30 A Musical Representation of Colonial Mexico: SAVAE's Guadalupe Recordings
YouYoung Kang (St. Mary's College of Maryland)

 
       
   

3-38 (5D) National Canons and Traditions
Chair: Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)

 
       
   

11:00 The Standardization of Burmese Traditional Music: Creating Legitimacy and Enforcing Authority
Gavin Douglas (University of Washington)

11:30 Old Genres in New Interpretations: the Meaning of Zhanr in Kazak Studies of Küy Instrumentals
Noriko Toda (Harvard University)

12:00 Growing In and Out of Tradition: the Development of the National Arts in Modern Ghana
Leigh Creighton (University of California-Los Angeles)

12:30 The Showcase of Korean Music and Dance at Chôngdong Theater: its Effect and Meaning.
Jim-Woo Kim (University of Michigan)

 
       
   

3-39 (5E) Native American and First Nation Cultural Resurgence in the Late Twentieth Century
Organizer and Chair: J. Richard Haefer (Arizona State University)
Discussant: Bruno Nettl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 
       
   

11:00 Proselytizing and Resurgence: Two Sides of a Coin?
J. Richard Haefer (Arizona State University)

11:30 Revitalizing, Celebrating and Healing a Native Community: the Kettle and Stoney Point Powwow
Anna Hoefnagels (York University, Toronto)

12:00 The Kwagiulth Dancers: Addressing Intellectual Property Issues at Victoria's First Peoples Festival
Klisala Harrison (York University, Toronto)

12:30 The Authority of Invention and the Invention of Authority: the Social Construction of Tradition
Steve Nickerson (University of Washington)

 
       
   

3-40 (5F) Trends in Contemporary Japanese Music
Sponsored by the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Travel support provided by Northeast Council of the Association for Asian Studies Organizers and Co-Chairs: Lorraine Plourde (Columbia University)
Jennifer Milioto (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Shuhei Hosokawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

 
       
   

11:00 Japanese R&B Meets Japanese Hip-Hop: Black Music and Gender in Japan
Ian Condry (Union College)

11:30 Tokyo Flashback: the Psychedelic Legacy of Japanese Noise
Lorraine Plourde (Columbia University)

12:00 Trance Dance: the Tokyo Rave Scene
Jennifer MJ Milioto (University of Chicago)

12:30 The Development of Okinawan Traditional Music into a Popular Music Form
D. Ann G. Snow (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

 
       
12:15-1:30 p.m.   Concert-Demonstration. Lila Muni (Eastman School of Music Gamelan Angklung)  
       
1:00-2:30 p.m.  

Ethics Committee
Audio-Visual Committee
Chapters Meeting
Sexualities and Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay/Transgendered Concerns
Archiving Committee
Popular Music Section, Subcommittee on Copyright

 
       
2:30-4:30 p.m. Sessions 3-71, 3-73 and 3-75
   

3-71 (6A) Questioning Received Wisdoms: Rethinking the Ethnomusicology of Hindustani Music
Organizers and Co-Chairs: Daniel Neuman (University of California-Los Angeles)
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi (University of Alberta)

 
       
   

2:30 Rethinking Gharanas
Daniel Neuman (UCLA) and Dard Neuman (Columbia University)

3:00 Writing the Culture of Discipleship: Paradigm and Practice in Hindustani Ethnomusicology
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi (University of Alberta)

3:30 Perceptions in History
Bonnie C. Wade (University of California-Berkeley)

4:00 An Ethnomusicologist Looks at his Field: a View of the Forest from a Few Trees
Charles Capwell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 
       
   

3-73 (6C) Technologies of Remembering
Organizer and Chair: David Henderson (University of Oklahoma)

 
       
   

2:30 Auditions of the Past in Nepali Film
David Henderson (University of Oklahoma)

3:00 Theorizing an Ecology of Musical Memory
Benjamin Brinner (University of California-Berkeley)

3:30 Direct Current Recall in Madagascar
Ron Emoff (University of Texas at Austin)

4:00 Engineering the Terrain of Memory in Nepali Popular Music
Paul D. Greene (Pennsylvania State University)

 
       
   

3-75 (6E) Positioning the Local and (Inter)National in Indonesian Popular Music
Organizer: Julia S. Byl (University of Michigan)
Chair: Sean Williams (Evergreen State College)
Discussant: Andrew Weintraub (University of Pittsburgh)

 
       
   

2:30 Indonesianizing Music Television: MTV Goes Local?
R. Anderson Sutton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

3:00 Gombloh: Social Criticism in the Songs of a 1980s Indonesian "Pop Country" Singer
Martin Hatch (Cornell University)

3:30 Navigating the Regional and National in Two Versions of a Toba Batak Song
Julia S. Byl (University of Michigan)

4:00 Indonesian Film and Popular Music: Identifying National Identity
Sathya Burchman (Wesleyan University)

 
       
2:30 - 5:00 p.m. Sessions 3-72 and 3-74
   

3-72 (6B) Repatriation in Native American and Canadian First Nation Communities: Whither Ethnomusicologists?
Organizer and Chair: Charlotte J. Frisbie (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) Discussant: Anthony Seeger (University of California-Los Angeles)

 
       
   

2:30 NAGPRA and Ethnomusicologists: an Overview
Charlotte J. Frisbie (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

2:55 Beyond "The Spirit Sings": Repatriation, Museums, and First Peoples in Canada
Trudy Nicks (Royal Ontario Museum and McMaster University)

3:20 Dissemination to Whom? For What Purposes?
Judith Gray (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)

3:45 Anthropological Entanglements with Traditional (Yuchi) Music and Dance
Jason Baird Jackson (Oklahoma Museum of Natural History)

4:10 Indigenous Cultures: Accessibility and Representation in a Global Environment
M. Sam Cronk (Indiana University)

4:35 Response by Anthony Seeger

 
       
   

3-74 (6D) Contested Categories and Narratives
Chair: Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman (University of Michigan)

 
       
   

2:30 "You're Roman?" Musical Practice and the Creation of Social Categories among Roman (Gypsy) Communities of Western Turkey
Sonia Tamar Seeman (University of California-Los Angeles)

3:00 The Tamil Music Movement: a Challenge to Brahmanical Music Culture in South India
Yoshitaka Terada (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)

3:30 In the Tradition: Race, Culture, History, and Memory in 1990s Jazz
Travis A. Jackson (University of Michigan)

4:00 Latin American Immigrant Musicians in the United States: Resistance and Accomodation to the American Category of "Latino"
Cristian Amigo (University of California-Los Angeles)

4:30 It's a Small World . . . But Where Are We in World Music? The Global Imagination and Spatial Identity in World Music: a View from Asia Major
Junko Oba (Wesleyan University)

 
       
   

4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Session 3-76 (7A) Ritual
Chair: Keith Howard (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

 
       
   

4:30 Chinese Ritual Music in a Global Village
James Dale Wilson (Columbia University)

5:00 Chasing Saint Nicholas: a Mid-Winter Noise Ritual in Central Switzerland
Helena Simonett (Vanderbilt University)


 
       

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Session 3-77 (7B) Nonference.

    Studying the Relation between Music and Islam: into the Twenty-first Century
Organizer and Chair: Michael Frishkopf (University of Alberta)
 
   

Other Participants:
Jonathan H. Shannon (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Dane Kusic (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Ted R. Swedenburg (University of Arkansas)
Philip Schuyler (University of Washington)

 
       
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.   Popular Music Interest Group  
       
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.   Society for Asian Music Membership Meeting  
       
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.   Association for Korean Music Research  
       
8:00 p.m.   Concert: Arabic Music Ensemble  

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4

7:00 - 8:30 a.m.  

Archive Committee
Editorial Board

 
       

8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Session 4-29.

   

Open Meeting of the Education Committee: Musics of the World: Outreach.
J. Bryan Burton (West Chester University), Chair

 
       

8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Session 4-30 (8A)

    The Dynamics of Musical Change and Exchange in Caribbean Popular Music
Sponsored by the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Organizer and Chair: Hope Munro Smith (University of Texas at Austin)
 
       
   

8:30 Innovation and Gendered Identity in Trinidadian Calypso and Soca
Hope Munro Smith (University of Texas at Austin)

9:00 Mizik Manmay Lakai (Home-Children Music): U.S. Country & Western Music in St. Lucia
Jerry Wever (University of Iowa)

9:30 Politics, Economics, and Religion in Ska: the Formation of Jamaican Identity
Gigi Rabe (UCLA and California State University, Northridge)

 
       

8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Sessions 4-31 through 4-34

    4-31 (8B) Music and Identity in the Tatras and Balkans
Chair: Svanibor Pettan (University of Ljubljana)
 
       
   

8:30 Music and Identity Politics in the Polish Tatras: Changing Meanings of Musical Symbols
Timothy J. Cooley (University of California-Santa Barbara)

9:00 Sharing Songs with the Enemy: Albanian Epic Singers and Ethnic Identity in the Balkans
Nicola Scaldaferri (University of Bologna)

9:30 "In Death Song Has No Place": Mediated Musics and Issues of Albanian Identity in the Wake of the Kosova War
Jane C. Sugarman (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

10:00 Belgrade, Spring 1999: Songs That Sustained the Nation
Ljerka Vidic Rasmussen (Middle Tennessee State University)

 
       

    4-32 (8C) Musical Hybridization, IV. Instrumental Resources
Chair: Terry E. Miller (Kent State University)
 
       
   

8:30 "Like Hens' Teeth": Sleepy Brown, Country Trumpet, and the Hybrid Culture of Western Swing
Tracey E.W. Laird (Agnes Scott College)

9:00 The Saxophone, not the Nagasvaram, in Traditional Weddings and Temple Rituals in Karnataka, South India
Gayathri Rajapur Kassebaum (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore)

9:30 From "No-Name Waltz" to "We Like to Party": Musik Bambu and the Performance of Minahasan History in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Jennifer Munger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:00 Music, Measurements, and Pitch Survivals in Korea
Robert C. Provine (University of Maryland, College Park)

 
       

    4-33 (8D) Collaboration and Negotiation
Chair: Daniel K. Avorgbedor (The Ohio State University)
 
       
   

8:30 Hahorlu: a Forum for Collaborative Creativity and the Perpetuation of Social and Artistic Values and Goals in New Anlo Ewe Songs
George Worlasi Kwasi Dor (University of Pittsburgh)

9:00 Negotiating West Indian and African-American Styles of Musical Worship in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Church
Melvin Butler (New York University)

9:30 Negotiated Harmonies: Reflections on Simunye: Music for a Harmonious World
Brett Pyper (Emory University)

10:00 Musical Hybrids in Zimbabwe: Improvisation as the Link between Musical Cultures
Myrna Capp (Seattle Pacific University)

 
       
    4-34 (8E) Whose Ragas Are We Playing and How Are We Playing Them? The Sound of South Indian Ethnomusicology at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Organizers and Co-Chairs: Zoe Sherinian (Franklin and Marshall College) and Matthew Allen (Wheaton College)
 
       
   

8:30 Claiming a Space for Tamil Music: the "Tamil Isai" Movement Seen through the Career of T.N. Swaminatha Pillai, Karnataka Flutist
Matthew Allen (Wheaton College)

9:00 Recasting Raga: Change and Continuity in South Indian Performance Practice in the Twentieth Century
T. Viswanathan (Wesleyan University)

9:30 Recasting the Classical: Karnataka Music and Female Musicians in the Twentieth Century
Amanda Weidman (Columbia University)

10:00 Tamil Christian Strategies of Musical Identity Reconstruction: Recasting the Discourse of South Indian Ethnomusicology
Zoe Sherinian (Franklin and Marshall College)

 
       
10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Session 4-7.
    Joint Session with the Society for Music Theory: Translating Norwegian
Organizer: David Loberg Code (Western Michigan University)
Chair: Deborah Stein (New England Conservatory of Music)
 
       
   

10:30 Polishing the Jagged Rocks: Edvard Grieg's SlDttar, Op. 72
Arvid Vollsnes (Universitetet i Oslo); Silvia Roederer (Western Michigan University); Karin Loberg Code (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

11:15 Quest for the Pure Voice: Eivind Groven's Renstemt Organ
David Loberg Code (Western Michigan University); Silvia Roederer (Western Michigan University); Øyonn Groven Myhren (Valdres, Norway)

12:00 New Traditionalism: the Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag and World Music
Tellef Kvifte (Universitetet i Oslo)

 
       

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sessions 4-35 and 4-36. Two Nonferences

    4-35 (9A) Rocking in the Free World: Global Perspectives on Heavy Metal
Organizer and Chair: Jeremy Wallach (University of Pennsylvania)
Other Participants:
Harris M. Berger (Texas A and M University)
Cynthia P. Wong (Columbia University)
Keith Harris (Goldsmiths' College, University of London)
Deena Weinstein (DePaul University)
 
       
   

4-36 (9B) Internet for Scholars: New and Old Uses
Organizer and Chair: Karl Signell (independent)
Other Participants:
Robert Garfias (University of California-Irvine)
Józef Pacholczyk (University of Maryland, College Park)
Jeff Todd Titon (Brown University)

 
       

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sessions 4-37 through 4-40

    4-37 (9C) Music for Children
Chair: Kari K. Veblen (University of Toronto)
 
       
   

11:00 Call and Response and/or Leader and Chorus: the Function and Aesthetic of Music for and by Children in Kenya
Jean Kidula (University of Georgia)

11:30 The Donkey's Ears Go Flop, Flop: Miyagi Michio's Koto Works for Children
Anne Prescott (Augustana College)

12:00 Ice Cream Truck Music, the Sound of Frozen Novelties
Daniel T. Neely (New York University)

 
       
    4-38 (9D) Ethnomusicology as Genre and Practice, III. Interrogating Disciplinary Boundaries
Chair: Deborah Wong (University of California-Riverside)
 
       
   

11:00 It's NOT Not Music!: Ethnomusicology and Film Sound Design
Chris Alberding (University of California-Riverside)

11:30 An Alternative to Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-first Century
Hyun Kyung Chae (Seoul National University)

12:00 A Model for a Reintegrated Musicology
Izaly Zemtsovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

 
       
    4-39 (9E) Restudies and Revaluations
Chair: Lorraine Sakata (University of California, Los Angeles)
 
       
   

11:00 Korean Shaman's Ritual Music Revisited
Mikyung Park (Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea)

11:30 Music Research and Japanese Imperial Colonialism: Putting Tanabe's and Kurosawa's Research Activities on Taiwan in Context
Wang Ying-fen (National University of Taiwan)

12:00 Retrospective and Update: the Music of the Shipibo People of the Amazon Basin
Theodore D. Lucas (California State University, Channel Islands)

 
       
    4-40 (9F) Constructing Classics and Traditions
Chair: Judith Gray (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
 
       
   

11:00 Nostalgia and the Construction of a Cowboy "Classic"
Keri Zwicker (University of Alberta)

11:30 Pasts and Presence: Tradition and Community in an Appalachian Dance Style
Anne Elise Thomas (Brown University)

 
       
12:30-1:30 p.m.   Concert. Music for the Kayagum. Hee-sun Kim, kayagum  
       
12:45 - 2:15 p.m.   SEM Council
Constitution Committee
Student Concerns Committee
 
       
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.  

SEM Business Meeting

 
       
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Session 4-74.  
    Charles Seeger Lecture.  
   

Remake, Recall, Remix: Globalization and the Aesthetics of Repetition
Arjun Appadurai (University of Chicago)

 
       
8:00-midnight  

Dance Party with Grooveyard

 

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5

7:00 - 9:00 a.m.  

SEM Council (with continental breakfast)

 
       
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.  

Board of Directors Meeting

 
       

9:00 - 11:00 a.m. Session 5-19 (10A)

    Musicking in the Culture and Experience of Children
Organizer and Chair: Patricia Shehan Campbell (University of Washington)
 
       
   

9:00 Because We Like It: How Middle School Students Identify through and with Music
Ramona Holmes (Seattle Pacific University)

9:30 Out of the Mouths of Babes: Incipient Musicking of Young Children
Patricia Shehan Campbell (University of Washington)

10:00 Dancing-Drumming-Singing in the Culture and Experience of Children
Charles Keil (State University of New York at Buffalo)

10:30 Documenting Children's Musical Culture: Past Achievements, Future Directions
Marie McCarthy (University of Maryland, College Park)

 
       

9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Sessions 5-20 through 5-22

    5-20 (10B) Ethnomusicology as Genre and Practice, IV. Making It Happen
Chair: Anthony Seeger (University of California-Los Angeles)
 
       
   

9:00 Grooving at the Nexus: the Intersection of African Music and Euro-American Ethnomusicology at UCLA
Brian Schrag (University of California-Los Angeles)

9:30 The Inside Story: Intersections between Music and Tradition in the Academy
Jerry Cadden (Boston College)

10:00 The Usefulness of Applied Ethnomusicology at the Turn of the Century: the Case of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Yollocalli (Mexican-American) Youth Museum
Jane L. Florine (Chicago State University)

10:30 Toward a Greater Sense of Purpose: a Social Worker's Perspective on Applied Ethnomusicology
J. Ricardo Alviso (California State University-Northridge)

11:00 Soundscapes and Cultural Representation at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Scott Spencer (New York University)

 
       
    5-21 (10C) Conceiving Tradition and Performing Memory: Women, Music, and the Expression of Identity
Organizer and Chair: Wendy S. DeBano (University of California-Santa Barbara)
 
       
   

9:00 Gendered Identification of the Indita Genre of New Mexico
Brenda M. Romero (University of Colorado, Boulder)

9:30 Andalusian Women's Orchestras: an Unveiled Face
Julia Banzi (University of California-Santa Barbara)

10:00 Enriching Tradition: Cantaoras in Creative Dialogue with Flamenco Song
Loren Chuse (University of California-Los Angeles and University of California-Davis)

10:30 Value and Vitality in a Literary Tradition: Female Poets and the Urdu Marsiya
Amy Bard (Harvard University)

11:00 Performing Female in Exile: an Iranian-American Case Study of Crisis, Recollection, and Coping
Wendy S. DeBano (University of California-Santa Barbara)

 
       
    5-22 (10D) Musical Representations of National Identities
Chair: Adelaida Reyes (Jersey City State College)
 
       
   

9:00 Unmasking Karnival: the Politics and Poetics of CuraHao Identity
Nanette de Jong (Rutgers University)

9:30 The Pasillo: a "Discursive Chaos" around the Musical Construction of Ecuadorian National Identity
Ketty Wong (University of Texas at Austin)

10:00 From the Cultural Center to the Consulate: Musical Politics the Filipino Way
Christi-Anne Castro (University of California-Los Angeles)

10:30 Morphing Chineseness: the Changing Image of Chinese Music Clubs in Singapore
Frederick Lau (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

11:00 A New Sound for a Globalizing India? Problems Regarding A.R. Rahman's Film Music and the Articulation of Identity
Joseph M. Getter (Wesleyan University)

 
       
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sessions 5-23 and 5-24
    5-23 (10E) Thinking about Musical Sounds in Native North American Communities
Organizer and Chair: Victoria Lindsay Levine (Colorado College)
 
       
   

9:00 Thinking Music: Style, Aesthetics, and Worldview in Woodland Intertribalism
Victoria Lindsay Levine (Colorado College)

9:30 Gender Roles and Tradition in Native North American Musical Expression
Tara Browner (University of California-Los Angeles)

10:00 Re-Placing Songs in Coast Salish Myth Narratives
Laurel Sercombe (University of Washington)

 
       
    5-24 (10F) Inscribing the Transnational Locally: Case Studies from Peruvian Popular Music
Organizer and Chair: Javier F. Le\n (University of Texas at Austin)
 
       
   

9:00 The International Soul of Black Peru
Heidi Feldman (University of California-Los Angeles)

9:30 Tourism and Peru's Postcolonial Encounter
Jonathan Ritter (University of California-Los Angeles)

10:00 Re-inventing Musical Difference: Reflections on the Politics of Afro-Peruvian Style
Javier F. Le\n (University of Texas at Austin)

 
       
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Session 5-25 (11A) Forum
    Music - Media - Multiculture: a Study through Music of Change in Sweden
Participants : Krister Malm, Dan Lundberg, Owe Ronstrom (all of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music)
 
       
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Session 5-26 (11B)
    Issues in Balkan Music History
Chair: Irene Markoff (York University, Toronto)
 
       
   

11:00 Ottoman Echoes, Byzantine Frescoes, and Rom Music in the Balkans
Gabriela Ilnitchi (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)

11:30 Meter as a Marker of Ethnonational Identity?: the Problem of "Asymmetrical" Meter in Macedonian Folk Song from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
Karen A. Peters (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

 

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