Wednesday, October 22, 1997 to Sunday, October 26, 1997
Sheraton Station Square Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ruth Stone, President
Charlotte Heth, Past President
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, President Elect
Dale A. Olsen, First Vice President
Christopher Waterman, Second Vice President
Terry E. Miller, Treasurer
Judith Gray, Secretary
Gage Averill, Member-at Large (even)
Marina Roseman, Member-at-Large (odd)
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY
OF POPULAR MUSIC -- U.S. CHAPTER OFFICERS
David Sanjek, Chair
David Brackett, Secretary Treasurer
Anahid Kassabian, Program Chair
SEM PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ellen Koskoff, Chair
Virginia Danielson
Beverly Diamond
Rolf Groesbeck
Heidi Owen
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
>From Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Carl Rahkonen, Chair
Donna Griffith, Director of Conferences
Kathy Evanko, Conference Assistant
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PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM
Ruth Stone
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
CHARLES SEEGER LECTURER
Adelaida Reyes Schramm
We Gratefully Acknowledge the Financial
Contributions of the following:
Garland Publishing, Inc.
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University of Pittsburgh
Office of the Provost
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1997
8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pre-conference and Conference Registration (Santa Fe
Foyer)
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Pre-conference Symposium, "Ethnomusicology and the
Academy" (Topeka/Santa Fe)
Co-Chairs: Ruth Stone (Indiana University)
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University)
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. SEM Board of Directors
(Ambassador Suite, Room #1520)
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Long Range Planning Committee Meeting (Board Room)
(Bruno Nettl, Chair)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Conference Registration (Santa Fe Foyer)
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon SEM Board Meeting (Board Room)
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Book Exhibit Set-up (P&LE)
I. SESSIONS: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
1.1 SEM Panel: Musical Identities: North America, Part 1 (Fountainview)
Chair: Anne Dhu McLucas (University of Oregon, Eugene)
8:30-9:00 "Early Playing Styles and Repertoires of the Appalachian Dulcimer:
Negotiating Public Image, Native Aesthetic, and Regional Identity,"
Lucy M. Long (Bowling Green State University)
9:00-9:30 "Imagining Ethnicity in America's Music: The Attempt to Synthesize
American Identity in Chicago's Music, 1885-1929,"
Mark Clague (University of Michigan)
9:30-10:00 "Polkas on the Prairies: Ukrainian Music and the Construction of
Identity"
Brian Cherwick (University of Alberta)
10:30-11:00 "Geography, Music, and Recreational Violence: The Case for an Irish
Diaspora in the Ottawa Valley"
Johanne Trew (University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland)
1.2 IASPM Panel: Approaching Classic Rock (Paddlewheel/Sternwheeler)
Co-Chair: Paul Friedlander (California State University, Chico) and Gary
Burns (Northern Illinois State University)
8:30-9:00 "'Somebody's diggin my bones': King Crimson's 'Dinosaur' as
(Post) progressive Historiography"
Brian Robison (Cornell University)
9:00-9:30 "Reading Lyrics: The Representation of Reading and Writing in Song
Lyrics"
David Linton (Marymount Manhattan College)
9:30-10:00 "Bottled Lightning": An Attempt to Develop an Analytical Notation
for Slide Guitar"
Tim Hughes (University of Washington)
10:00-10:30 "Tonality Experiments by California Garage Bands in the 1960s"
Craig Morrison (Concordia University)
1.3 SEM Panel: Issues in Indonesian Music (Caboose)
Chair: David Harnish (Bowling Green State University)
8:30-9:00 "Recapturing Ritual: Performance and Authenticity in an Indonesian
Province"
R. Anderson Sutton (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
9:00-9:30 "Some Thoughts on Hybrid Music: From Tanjidor Brass Band to
Computer-Generated Gamelan Composition"
Sumarsam (Wesleyan University)
9:30-10:00 "From the Land of a Thousand Peaks: Campur Sari--A New Mixture
of Old Musical Essences"
Nancy I. Cooper (National University of Singapore)
10:00-10:30 "Living Islam and Evolving Practice in Indonesia through the Shared
Experience of the Holy Qur'an"
Anne K. Rasmussen (The College of William and Mary)
1.4 Forum: Ragtime and Stride Piano (Sponsored by the Popular Music
Interest Group of the Sonneck Society for American Music)(Steamboat)
8:30-10:30 Chair: John Covach (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
David Joyner
Paul Machlin
John Covach
1.5 IASPM Panel: New Prospects in Analysis (Engine)
Chair: Rob Bowman (York University)
8:30-9:00 "An Analysis of Neil Young's 'Powderfinger' Based on Marc
Johnson's Image Schemata"
William Echard (York University)
9:00-9:30 "Towards an Analytical Model for Rap Vocal Performance"
Mike Daley (York University)
9:30-10:00 "Spectrographic Analysis and 'World Music' Recordings of the
Phonograph Era"
Bradley Klump (York University)
10:00-10:30 "From Mardi Gras to Funk: Professor Longhair, James Brown, and
the Transformation of Rhythm & Blues"
Alex Stewart (CUNY Graduate Center)
1.6 IASPM Panel: Pedagogy & Performance (Pullman)
Chair: Peter Winkler (SUNY Stony Brook)
8:30-9:00 "Head Games! Prince, Foreigner, Loverboy, and the 'Girl Singer'
from Hell: Gender Bending in the '80s"
Alice Long (University of Memphis)
9:00-9:30 "'Why Do We Have to Think About This Stuff?': Popular Music
Studies and Music Industry Majors"
Paul Fischer (Middle Tennessee State University)
9:30-10:00 "'I'll Learn to Work the Saxophone': Musicianship vs. Technique in
Jazz"
Robert Walser (University of California, Los Angeles)
10:00-10:30 "'One step Beyond': Notes on the Situating Effects of the Pop Song
and the Complications of Listening"
Randal Doane (CUNY Graduate Center)
10:30-10:45 Break
II. SESSIONS: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
2.1 SEM Panel: Presenters, the Presented, and the Presented To: Case
Studies in the Public Sector (Caboose)
Chair: Michael Wilpers (Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution); Discussant: Dan Sheehy (National Endowment for
the Arts)
10:45-11:15 "Confounding Inspirations: Museum Audiences Confront an
Unexpected Hinduism"
Michael Wilpers (Smithsonian Institute)
11:15-11:45 "Badenya: Issues of Manding Cultural Unity in New York"
Tom Van Buren (Ethnic Folk Arts Center)
11:45-12:15 Discussion, Dan Sheehy (National Endowment for the Arts)
2.2 Ghanaian Drumming Ensemble Hands-On Workshop (Fountainview)
10:45-12:15 Karolyn Stonefelt (State University of New York, Fredonia)
2.3 SEM Panel: De/Reconstructing Musical Histories: India (Engine)
Chair: Carol Babiracki (Harvard University)
10:45-11:15 "The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: Re-Visioning the
Landscape of North Indian Classical Music"
David Trasoff (University of California, Santa Barbara)
11:15-11:45 "Kirtans in North Indian Classical Music: The Temple and Court
Reconsidered"
Meilu Ho (University of California, Los Angeles)
11:45-12:15 "Classical Music as Popular Music in India"
Matthew Allen (University of Oklahoma)
12:00 noon - Book Exhibit Opens
12:30-1:45 Lunch on your own
12:30-1:30 Opening Concert: The EurAsia Ensemble: A Concert of Turkish
Classical Music
Robert Labaree, Beth Cohen, Frederick Stubbs (B&O)
III. SESSIONS: 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
3.1 SEM Panel: Musical Identities: North America, Part 2 (Caboose)
Chair: Thomas Vennum (Smithsonian Institution)
1:30-2:00 "Mei Lan-fang and the Staging of Chinese Opera in America"
Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Rutgers University)
2:00-2:30 "Rumi and Rap: Music and Identity in the Iranian-American
Community"
Wendy S. DeBano (University of California, Santa Barbara)
2:30-3:00 "The Blackfeet Society Dance: Creating and Recreating Tradition in
the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma"
Ann Davenport Lucas (Towson State University)
3:00-3:30 "Social Messages in Contemporary Native American Music"
Bryan Burton (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
3.2 SEM Panel: The Past and the Future of Ethnomusicology: Historical
Perspectives (Pullman)
Chair: Rulan Chao Pian (Harvard University)
1:30-2:00 "Musicological Discourse and Graphic Imagination: Charles Seeger as
Conceptual Artist"
Bell Yung (University of Pittsburgh and University of Hong Kong)
2:00-2:30 "Ethnomusicology's Mythology and the Lost Discipline: Carl Engel
and the Science of National Music"
Ter Ellingson (University of Washington)
2:30-3:00 "Re-Intellectualizing the Circle: The Development of African
American Scholars and Scholarship in Ethnomusicology"
Michelle Hammond (University of Pittsburgh)
3:00-3:30 "Loading the Canon: Popular Music's Positions in the Society for
Ethnomusicology"
Geoffrey Whittal (York University, Grande Prairie Regional
College)
3.3 SEM Panel: Systematic Studies of African Music: West African
Drumming (Steamboat)
Chair: Akin Euba (University of Pittsburgh); Respondent: Kofi Agawu
(Yale University)
1:30-2:00 "Music Space Time: Towards a Foundation Theory of Rhythm in
African Music"
Willi Anku (University of Ghana at Legon)
2:00-2:30 "Maninka Aesthetics of Musical Time"
Eric Charry (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
2:30-3:00 "Hearing the Luna's Music"
David Locke (Tufts University)
3:00-3:30 "Some Relations Between Micro-Timing, Meter, and Performance in
Jenbe Drum Ensemble Playing"
Rainer Polak (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
3.4 SEM Panel: Cognitive Ethnomusicology: Categories, Meaning, and Sound
Structures in Auditory Processing of Music (Coach)
Chair: Elizabeth Tolbert (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University)
1:30-2:00 "Cultural Models or Cognitive Models? Motivated Symbols and
Processes of Meaning Construction in Music"
Elizabeth Tolbert (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins
University)
2:00-2:30 "Cajun Dance Tunes and Their Variants: A Study of Categorization
in Oral Tradition"
Mark DeWitt (University of California, Berkeley)
2:30-3:00 "What Stories Does Music Tell?"
Lawrence Zbikowski (University of Chicago)
3:00-3:30 "Worlds of Sound"
Cornelia Fales (University of California, Irvine)
3.5 SEM Panel: Gendered Spaces and Contexts (Engine)
Chair: Victoria Lindsay-Levine (Colorado College)
1:30-2:00 "Listening to a Quiet Tradition: Music and Social Spheres of
Northern New England"
Jennifer C. Post (Middlebury College)
2:00-2:30 "Transformations of Male and Female Space in Homes, Stages, and
Repertoires of the Sundanese in West Java, Indonesia"
Sean Williams (Evergreen State College)
2:30-3:00 "In the Village, the Temple, the Salon, on Stage, and on Screen:
Women's Identities and Musical Expression in Modern India"
Harriotte Hurie (Wesleyan University)
3:00-3:30 "'Nadia Dhire Bahu Re (Oh River, Flow Gently)': Representation of
a Female Musician in 'Docu-feature' Film"
Amelia M. Dutta (University of Texas, Austin)
3.6 IASPM Panel: History, Technology, and Cultural Practice
(Paddlewheel/Sternwheeler)
Chair: Paul Theberge (Concordia University) and Holly Kruse (La Salle
University)
1:30-2:00 "The West's Songs, Our Songs: The Introduction and Adaptation of
Western Popular Song in Vietnam"
Jason Gibbs (San Francisco Public Library)
2:00-2:30 "Buried Under the Fecundity of His Own Creations: Rethinking the
Recording Bans"
Tim Anderson (Northwestern University)
2:30-3:00 "The Sound of History"
Tony Grajeda (St. Lawrence University)
3:00-3:30 "Other Words, Other Sounds: Utopias of the Tropics in Lounge
Music"
Rebecca Leydon (SUNY Stony Brook)
3.7 IASPM Panel: Critiquing Rock Criticism (Fountainview)
Chair: David Brackett (SUNY Binghamton)
1:30-2:00 "Moving from Lyrical to Narrative Analysis in Popular Music
Studies"
Kevin Dettmar (Clemson University)
2:00-2:30 "Authenticity in the Discourse of Rock Music"
Deena Weinstein (DePaul University)
2:30-3:00 "But Is It Art? Rock in the Face of Aesthetic Theory?"
Bernard Gendron (University of Wisconsin)
3:00-3:30 "Sixties Idealism and the Inscription of Rock's Folk-Blues Origin"
Michael Coyle (Colgate University)
3:30- 4:00 Break (P&LE)
IV. SESSIONS: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
4.1 SEM Panel: Popular Music and the Nation State (Steamboat)
Chair: Edward Larkey (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
4:00-4:30 "Negotiating the Nation in Post-Unification East German Popular Music"
Edward Larkey (University of Maryland, Baltimore)
4:30-5:00 "'Sirva Vigad A Magyar': The Role of Magyar Nota and Gypsy
(Roma) Musicians in Hungarian Identity and Nationalism"
Æva Kiss (Indiana University)
5:00-5:30 "Kadongo Kamu: A Double-Edged Popular Music 'Sword' in Uganda?"
James Makubuya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4.2 SEM Panel: Interpreting the Aesthetic: Musical Interaction and the
Negotiation of Identity (Caboose)
Chair: Jason Oakes (Columbia University); Discussant: Christopher
Waterman (University of California, Los Angeles)
4:00-4:30 "'Translating Elvis'": Using the 'Elvis Aesthetic' to Negotiate Ethnic
Identity"
Jason Oakes (Columbia University)
4:30-5:00 "The Blues Aesthetic" and the Jazz Performance Ritual: Jazz as
Equipment for Living"
Travis A. Jackson (Columbia University)
5:00-5:30 "'Don't Tell Me How to Be'": The Negotiation of Identity and
Gender Roles on the Beijing Rock Scene
Cynthia P. Wong (Columbia University)
4.3 IASPM Panel: Country Revisited (Pullman)
Chair: Pete Petersen (Vanderbilt University)
4:00-4:30 "Hillbilly Redux: Alternative Country, Gender, and '90s Authenticity"
Pamela Fox (Georgetown University)
4:30-5:00 "No Song That is Not a Country Song: Buck Owens and the
Meaning of Country"
Barbara Ching (University of Memphis)
5:00-5:30 "Between Riot Grrl and Quiet Girl: The New Feminist Girl in
Country Music"
Beverly Keel (Middle Tennessee State University)
4.4 IASPM Panel: Porno Theories in Motion (Coach)
Chair: Anahid Kassabian (Fordham University)
4:00-4:30 "Hearing Left and Right: Four Hate Songs and Their Heritage"
David Schwarz (Amherst College)
4:30-5:00 "Commercial Music and Desire"
Raphael Atlas (Smith College)
5:00-5:30 "Deleuze the DJ: Theory's Sound, Sound's Theory"
Josh Kun (University of California, Berkeley)
4.5 SEM Panel: The Transformation of Immigrant Musical Practices: Three
Examples from New York City (Engine)
Chair: Daniel Ferguson (Columbia University)
4:00-4:30 "'Congo de Guinea Soy'" (I am a Congo from Africa): The Music of
Palo New York City"
Maurea Landies (Columbia University)
4:30-5:00 "Is It a Gig or a Session?: The Effects of Advertising on the
Etiquette of the New York Seisiun, and Its Implications for Irish
Identity"
Daniel Thompson (Columbia University)
5:00-5:30 "Fuzhou Flower Shops: Heat and Noise in New York City's
Chinatown"
James Dale Wilson (Columbia)
4.6 SEM Panel: Creating the National in Music (Paddlewheel/Sternwheeler)
Chair: Paul Austerlitz (Brown University)
4:00-4:30 "Tambora Sinaloense: Social Discourse and the Making of Regional
and National Music"
Helena Simonett (University of California, Los Angeles)
4:30-5:00 "Nationalism, Industrialization, and Cultural Subsumation: The Case
of the Afro-Ecuadorian Marimba"
Jonathan L Ritter (University of California, Los Angeles)
5:00-5:30 "Ebony Disc and Ivory Key: Irish Traditional Music Production,
America, c.1910-1935"
Aibhlin Dillane (University of Limerick, Ireland)
4.7 Panel: Crossover: Country, Jazz, Blues (Sponsored by the Popular Music
Interest Group of the Sonneck Society for American Music) (Fountainview)
Chair: David Joyner (University of North Texas)
4:00-5:30 David Brackett (SUNY, Binghamton)
Ron Pen (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
John Covach (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
6:00-7:00 Gala Opening Reception, hosted by Garland Publishing, Inc.
(Reflections)
7:00-8:00 Film: "The Singing Culture of the Rusyn Minority of Eastern
Slovakia" (Engine)
Robert Carl Metil (University of Pittsburgh)
8:00-10:00 Concert: Thai Ensemble (Kent State University)
(B&O, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe)
8:00-11:00 p.m. Association for Chinese Music Research (Steamboat)
Chair: Fred Lau (California Polytechnic State University)
Introduction: Fred Lau
"A Comparative Study of Post-1960 Music for East Asian Zithers:
Zheng, Koto and Kayagum"
Chao-Jung Wu (University of Hawaii)
"The Birth of a New Mode?: The Generation of New Modal Entities
in Chaozhou Xianshi String Ensemble Music"
Mercedes M. Dujunco (University of Alberta)
"Institutionalization of Shamanism: Changes of Manchu Shamanic
Rituals from the Countryside to the Imperial Court"
Wu Ben (University of Pittsburgh)
Break
"Chinese Street Opera In Singapore"
Lee Tong Soon (University of Pittsburgh)
"1997: What it Means to School Music Classrooms in Hong Kong?"
Victor Fung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
"The Symbols and Meaning Behind Tan Dun's Symphony 1997"
Yu Siu Wah (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Business Meeting: Bell Yung (University of Pittsburgh and
University of Hong Kong)
10:00-12:00 Conferee Jam (Fountainview)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
7:30: a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
SEM '97 and SEM '98 Program and Local Arrangements Committee
Meeting (Steamboat)
SEM Editorial Advisory Committee (Judith McCulloh, Chair)
(Board Room)
SEM A/V Committee Meeting (Barry Dornfeld, Chair)
(Engine)
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Conference Registration (Santa Fe Foyer)
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Book Exhibit (P&LE)
V. SESSIONS: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
5.1 IASPM Plenary Session 1: Historiography and Popular Music Studies
(Fountainview)
Chair and Organizer: David Sanjek (BMI)
Bill Barlow (Howard University)
Paul Friedlander (California State University, Chico)
Reebee Garofalo (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Portia Maultsby (Indiana University)
David Sanjek (BMI)
Robert Walser (University of California, Los Angeles)
5.2 SEM Panel: Global/Local "Country" Musics: The Identity Politics of
Rusticity (Caboose)
Chair: Christine Yano (University of Hawaii); Discussant: Carolina
Robertson (University of Maryland, College Park)
8:30-9:00 "Keroncong Music in a Javanese Neighborhood: Rehearsals with the
Spirits of the Popular"
Steve Ferzacca (Bryn Mawr College)
9:00-9:30 "Indigenous to Modernity: Music, Class, and the Significance of
Rusticity"
Aaron Fox (Columbia University)
9:30-10:00 "Constructions of the Real: Discourses of Authenticity in a Japanese
Popular Music Genre"
Christine Yano (University of Hawaii)
10:00-10:30 "'Paniolo Country': Hawaiian Music in the Hawaiian Islands,
Hawaiian-American Music in the Fiftieth State"
Ric Trimillos (University of Hawaii)
5.3 SEM Panel: Musical Identities: Europe (Pullman)
Chair: Donna Buchanan (University of Illinois)
8:30-9:00 "In Search of Identity: National and Personal Journeys"
Georgette Mulheir (University of Limerick, Ireland)
9:00-9:30 "'Funny, You Don't Sound Saami:'" Crossing Ethnic Boundaries with
Contemporary Scandinavian Music"
Richard Jones-Bamman (Eastern Connecticut State University)
9:30-10:00 "Uzbek Celebrity Musicians as Representative of Uzbek Mainstream
Political Outlooks"
Craig Macrae (University of Illinois)
10:00-10:30 "Suturing History, Healing Europe: National Temporality in Heiner
Muller and Heiner Goebbels's Wolokolamsker Chausee"
Brian Currid (University of Chicago) and Philip V. Bohlman
(University of Chicago)
5.4 SEM Panel: Relationship between Performance and Scholarship in
Korean Traditional Music (Coach)
Chair: Okon Hwang (Eastern Connecticut State University)
8:30-9:00 "Scholars, Musicians, and the Creative Process of Korean Music
Making"
Hae-Kyung Um (Queen's University of Belfast)
9:00-9:30 "Traditional or Traditionesque? The Influence of Scholars on the
Style and Status of Korean Ch'angguk Opera."
Andrew Killick (University of Washington, Hankuk University
of Foreign Studies, Korea)
9:30-10:00 "The Mutual Relationship between Performance Activities and
Research at the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing
Arts"
Hyejin Song (National Center for Korean Traditional
Performing Arts, Korea)
10:00-10:30 "Interpreting the Performer through Notation"
Keith Howard (School of Oriental and African Studies, United
Kingdom)
5.5 SEM Panel: Heavy Metal: Multiple Dimensions, Multiple Approaches
(Steamboat)
Chair: Harris Berger (Texas A & M University); Discussant: Deena
Weinstein (De Paul University); Respondent: Robert Walser (University of
California, Los Angeles)
8:30-9:00 "Time Travel and Social Interaction in Heavy Metal Performance"
Harris Berger (Texas A & M University)
9:00-9:30 "Heavy Metal Machine: Gender on Wheels"
Stacy Stevens (University of Virginia)
9:30-10:00 "'Shut Up, We Know You Can Play! Jesus. . .': Steve Vai and
Questions of Authenticity and Postmodern Spirituality"
Glenn Pillsbury (University of California, Los Angeles)
5.6 SEM Panel: The Local Uses of Distant Music (Engine)
Chair: Marc Perlman (Brown University)
8:30-9:00 "Re-discovering Philadelphia's Klezmer Scene: An Insider's
Perspective"
Hankus Netsky (Wesleyan University, New England
Conservatory)
9:00-9:30 "Skanking in the Tatras: An Unlikely Mix of Polish Fiddle Music
and Jamaican Reggae"
Timothy J. Cooley (Brown University, Rhode Island College)
9:30-10:00 "A Different Village: Going Balkan in America"
Mirjana Lausevic (Wesleyan University)
10:00-10:30 "Engrossment vs. Reflexivity: An Insider's Response to the Balkan
Dance Scene in America"
Timothy Rice (University of California, Los Angeles)
5.7 SEM Workshop: Mentoring (Paddlewheel)
8:30-10:30 Co-Chairs: Deborah Wong and Elizabeth Tolbert,
10:30- 10:45 Break (P&LE)
VI. SESSIONS: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
6.1 SEM Workshop: "The Creation of the 'North American Didgeridoo
Style': Contextual and Stylistic Transformation of an Australian Aboriginal
Musical Instrument (Steamboat)
10:45-12:00 James Everett Cunningham (University of Washington)
6.2 IASPM Panel: Expression and Ownership In Folk Music (Caboose)
Chair: David Sanjek (BMI); Discussant: Cecilia Tichi (Vanderbilt
University)
10:45-11:15 "The Performance and Cultural Politics of 'People's Music,'1935-42."
Lisa Barg (SUNY, Stony Brook)
11:15-11:45 "Leadbelly's Story Songs: Innovation in Folk Forms as a Bridge to
Popular Acceptance"
Dick Weissman (University of Colorado, Denver)
11:45-12:15 "The Lomax Family (John A. and Alan) and Leadbelly"
Israel Young (Folklore Center, Stockholm)
6.3 SEM Panel: Music on the Move: Migrations (Pullman)
Chair: Marina Roseman (University of Maryland, College Park)
10:45-11:15 "Music and Migration: A Comparative Perspective"
Paul Austerlitz (University of Miami)
11:15-11:45 English National Consciousness, Transnational Identity and the
Global Entertainment Industry in South Africa, 1950-1954"
Carol Muller (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
11:45-12:15 "Marquesan Performing Arts in Migration"
Jane Freeman Moulin (University of Hawaii)
6.4 IASPM Panel: Stardom and Popularity (Coach)
Chair: Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside)
10:45-11:15 "Rethinking Rock Stardom: Mass and Margin in the Fordist
Imaginary"
Leerom Medovoi (University of California, Irvine)
11:15-11:45 "The Notion of 'Star' in the Recordings of Barbra Streisand"
Linda Pohly (Ball State University)
11:45-12:15 "Cantopop and Mandapop in Pre-postcolonial Hong Kong: Identity
Negotiation in the Performance of Anita Mui Yim-fong"
J. Lawrence Witzleben (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
6.5 SEM Panel Fieldwork and Analysis: New Approaches from Psychology
(Engine)
Chair: David Locke (Tufts University)
10:45-11:15 "Life-Historical Research: Methodological Issues and Psychoanalytic
Models"
John M. Chernoff (University of Pittsburgh)
11:15-11:45 "Music In/As Culture in the Light of Psychology"
Alla Abramovich-Gomon (Earth Music Center of Indiana, Inc.)
11:45-12:15 "Cuando una Rosa Te Pones: Exploring the Ecstatic Dimension of
the Son Huasteco"
Sarah Truher (University of California, Los Angeles)
6.6 IASPM Panel: Constituting Communities (Fountainview)
Chair: Leslie C. Gay (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
10:45-11:15 "The Emergence of Contemporary Christian Music"
Patricia Lawrence (University of Idaho) and Luis Saenz
(University of Texas at El Paso)
11:15-11:45 "'Virtual Radio' and the Rhetorics of Community and Authenticity
on Alternative Music Sites on the World Wide Web"
Andrew Herman (Drake University) and Tom Swiss (Drake
University)
11:45-12:15 "Techno Music and Sonic Communities: When Modern Markets and
Postmodern Pleasures Collide
Susana Loza (University of California, Berkeley)
12:15- 1:30 Lunch on your own
12:30- 1:30 Concert: Traditional and Contemporary Korean Kayagum Hee-
Sun Kim (University of Pittsburgh) (Fountainview)
12:30-1:30 Film: "A Spirit Here Today: A Scrapbook of Chopi Village
Music" (Engine)
Gei Zantzinger (Constant Spring Productions)
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Ethics Committee Meeting
(Martha Davis, Chair) (Caboose)
Society for Asian Music Business Meeting
(Terry Miller, Chair) (Board)
SEM Archives Committee Business Meeting
(Joe Hickerson, Chair) (Paddlewheel)
SEM Committee on Gender and Sexuality Concerns
(Ingrid Monson, Chair) (Coach)
Popular Music Section Business Meeting
(Harris Berger, Chair) (Steamboat)
ICTM Liaison Committee
(Ric Trimillos, Chair) (Pullman)
VII. SESSIONS: 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
7.1 SEM Panel: Change and Gender Dynamics During Times of War,
Violence, and Stress: Recent Work of the Music and Gender Study Group of
the ICTM. In Memory of Dr. Marcia Herndon (Caboose)
Co-Chairs: Boden Sandstrom (University of Maryland, College Park)
and Pirkko Moisala (University of Turku, Finland); Discussant:
Carolina Robertson (University of Maryland, College Park)
1:30-1:45 Introduction: "History of the Music and Gender Study Group"
Boden Sandstrom (University of Maryland, College Park)
1:45-2:00 "Introducing the Concept of Musical Gender"
Pirkko Moisala (University of Turku, Finland)
2:00-2:20 "Women, Music, and Chains of the Mind: Eritrea and the Tigre
Region of Ethiopia, 1972-1993"
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin (Music Research Institute, Pt.
Richmond, CA)
2:20-2:40 "Refections on Music and Gender in the Context of Forced
Migration: Vietnamese in Flight and Resettlement"
Adelaida Reyes Schramm
2:40-3:10 Brief Summaries:
"The Michigan Womyn's Festival: A Safe Space for Lesbian Healing
and Community"
Boden Sandstrom (University of Maryland, College Park)
"Music in Ultimate Circumstances: Men's Music and Music-Making
at the Finnish Front During the Second World War"
Pirkko Moisala (University of Turku, Finland)
"The Paradox of Gender in the Andes"
Carolina Robertson (University of Maryland, College Park)
3:10-3:30 Discussion led by Carolina Robertson
7.2 IASPM Panel: Race and Representation (Paddlewheel)
Chair: Leerom Medovoi (University of California, Irvine)
1:30-2:00 "Sweet Honey in the Rock: Building Communities Through Resistant
Voices"
Jessica Davis (University of Pennsylvania)
2:00-2:30 "Think About What You're Trying to Do to Me: Rock
Historiography and the Construction of a Race-based Dialectic"
John Sheinbaum (Cornell University)
2:30-3:00 "Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds and 'Musical Blackness' in
Contemporary Popular Music"
Richard Rischar (University of North Carolina)
3:00-3:30 "From Jazz to Rock to Rap (Hip-Hop): The Universal and Frequency
of Innovations in 20th Century Popular Music"
Claire Levy (Institute of Arts Studies, Bulgaria)
7.3 IASPM Panel: Where It's At: The State of Popular Music Studies
(Pullman)
Chair: Gilbert Rodman (University of South Florida)
1:30-2:00 "Killing it Softly: The Death of Popular Music Studies"
Gilbert Rodman (University of South Florida)
2:00-2:30 "I Didn't Die Before I Got Old: The Age Problem in Popular Music
Studies"
Norma Coates (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2:30-3:00 "The Occluded Term: Towards a Theory of Black Popular Music
Reception and Subject Formation"
Tim Haslett (Brandeis University)
3:00-3:30 "About a Body"
Gregory Seigworth (Millersville University)
7.4 SEM Panel: Performing Technologies: Music, Community and Techno-
Cultural Change (Engine)
Chair: Rene T. A. Lysloff (University of California, Riverside)
1:30-2:00 "Internet Ethnography"
Timothy D. Taylor (Columbia University)
2:00-2:30 "Before the Deluge: The Techno-culture of Song Sheet Publishing in
Late Nineteenth Century Galveston"
Leslie C. Gay (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
2:30-3:00 "Pushing the Boundaries of Technology and Performance: The
Relevance of Disco and Post-Disco Dance Music"
Kai Fikentscher (Tufts University)
3:00-3:30 "Virtual Music Communities: MOD Composers and Their Audiences"
Rene T. A. Lysloff (University of California, Riverside)
7.5 SEM Panel: Cross-Cultural Studies in Music Reception (Coach)
Chair: Peter Manuel (John Jay College, CUNY Graduate Center)
1:30-2:00 "Female Consumer Perspectives on Gender Representations in
Caribbean Popular Musics"
Peter Manuel (John Jay College, CUNY Graduate Center)
2:00-2:30 "The Ideal Man: Perspectives on the Construction, Performance, and
Reception of Maleness in Cantonese Opera"
Daniel Ferguson (Columbia University)
2:30-3:00 "Champeta and Rap: Black Sounds and Black Identities in Afro-
Colombia"
Lise Waxer (Trinity College)
3:00-3:30 "Beyond Performance: Music Recordings and the Materiality of
Sound"
Jeremy Wallach (University of Pennsylvania)
7.6 IASPM Panel: Music, Nationalism, and the State (Steamboat)
Chair: Chris Waterman (University of California, Los Angeles)
1:30-2:00 "Diasporan Sounds in Contemporary Cuba"
Deborah Pacini-Hernandez (Brown University)
2:00-2:30 "The Transformation of Cuban Nueva Trova, 1965-80"
Robin Moore (Columbia College, Chicago)
2:30-3:00 "Culture, Media, and the Music Industry: What Can We Learn from
NAFTA?"
Steve Jones (University of Illinois, Chicago)
3:00-3:30 "The Government Memories: A Museumization of Popular Music"
Line Grenier (Universite de Montreal)
7.7 SEM Panel: The Past and the Future of Ethnomusicology: New Models
(Fountainview)
Chair: Ingrid Munson (Washington University)
1:30-2:00 "Eth-No-Musicology: Towards a New Ethno-Musicology"
John Morgan O'Connell (University of Limerick, Ireland)
2:00-2:30 "The Future of Ethnomusicology or the "Disciplinary Square"
Izaly Zemtsovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2:30-3:00 "Popular Music as 'Hearing Over:' Ethnopoetics, Performance, and
Sense of Place in a Tamil Village Audio-Cassette Culture"
Paul D. Greene (Pennsylvania State University)
3:00-3:30 "'He Isn't a Marrying Man': Gender and Sexuality in the Repertoire
of Male Impersonators, 1870-1920"
Gillian Rodger (University of Pittsburgh)
3:30-4:00 Break (P&LE)
VIII. SESSIONS: 4:00-5:30
8.1 IASPM Panel: Across the Great Divide: Negotiating Highbrow and
Lowbrow Musics (Fountainview)
Chair: Robert Fink (Eastman School of Music)
4:00-4:30 "Complicitous Pleasures and Cool Cynicism: KISS, the Body, and
Popular Aesthetics"
John Sloop (Vanderbilt University)
4:30-5:00 "Contamination of the Classics or Cultural Diplomacy?"
Gwenyth Jackaway (Fordham University)
5:00-5:30 "Leonard Bernstein on Television: Bridging the Gap Between
Classical Music and Popular Culture"
Sharon Gelleny (SUNY, Binghamton)
5:30-6:00 "The New Medievalism: Fantasy Tried Reality in Enigma and Dead
Can Dance"
Kirsten Yri (SUNY, Stony Brook)
8.2 SEM Panel: T.O. Ranger's 'Dance and Society' Revisited: Music and
Competition in Post-Socialist Tanzania (Caboose)
Chair: Michelle Kisliuk (University of Virginia); Respondent: Janet Topp-
Fargion (National Sound Archive of the British Museum)
4:00-4:30 "Witchcraft, Witcraft and Musical Warfare: The Influential Rise of
the Bagika-Bagalu Music Competitions in Sukumaland, Tanzania"
Frank Gunderson (Wesleyan University)
4:30-5:00 "Following in the Tracks of Beni: The Tanga Taarab Tradition"
Kelly Askew (Indiana University)
5:00-5:30 "Politics of Remembering: Performing History(-ies) in Youth Kwaya
Competitions in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania"
Gregory Barz (Ohio State University, New Grove's Dictionary
of Music and Musicians)
8.3 IASPM Panel: Dance Cultures (Pullman)
Chair: Will Straw (McGill University)
4:00-4:30 "DJ Shamanism and New Age Technospirituality: Trance and
Meditation in Popular Music"
Rene Lysloff (University of California, Riverside)
4:30-5:00 "Deep in the Jungle: Drum 'N' Bass Subculture and Diasporic
Identity"
Ashley Dawson (University of Iowa)
5:00-5:30 "From Rap to Tap: The Celtic Boom"
Ellen Sinatra (University of California, Los Angeles)
8.4 SEM Panel: Issues in Fieldwork and Analysis (Engine)
Chair: Richard J. Haeffer (Arizona State University)
4:00-4:30 "Tonal Modulation as a Technique and as a Symbol of Affect in
Turkish and European Repertoires"
Robert Labaree (New England Conservatory)
4:30-5:00 "Interaction between Dancers and Drummers in Martinican Bele"
Julian Gerstin (Wesleyan University)
5:00-5:30 "'Time is the Essence'": Analytical Methodology for New and
Improvised Music"
Mike Heffley (Wesleyan University)
8.5 IASPM Panel: Performance (Coach)
Chair: Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University)
4:00-4:30 "I'll Spray You Straight Through: Performing Identity Tensions"
Cynthia Fuchs (George Mason University)
4:30-5:00 "Elvis Goes Global: Live via Satellite, Aloha from Hawaii"
Lisa Parks (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
5:00-5:30 "Pickin' the Flesh Off the Bone: Tupac, Biggie, and the Death of
Country Music"
Gregory Wahl (University of Maryland)
8.6 SEM Panel: Musical Identities: Brazil (Paddlewheel)
Chair: Ted Solis (Arizona State University)
4:00-4:30 "Longing for "Rio Antigo:" The Brazilian Choro Revival and the
Discourse of Modernity"
Tamara Livingston (University of Illinois)
4:30-5:00 "The Berimbau of Capoeira: History, Values, and Identity Portrayed
Through the Melodic Rhythms of a Musical Bow"
Eric A. Galm (Tufts University)
5:00-5:30 "Self Discovery in Brazilian Popular Music"
John Murphy (Western Illinois University)
8.7 SEM Panel: Popular Music/Multiple Identities (Steamboat)
Chair: Laurel Sercombe (University of Washington)
4:00-4:30 "How 'Korean' is Samulnori?: Voices of Praise and Dissent in a Re-
born Tradition"
Shingal Park (University of Pittsburgh)
4:30-5:00 "Mongolian "Pop-Rock" and Mongolian Identity: Tracing the Heritage
of the Country's New Bards"
Peter K. Marsh (Indiana University)
5:00-5:30 "Cape Verdean Popular Music After Cesaria Evora: The Fate of
Funana"
Susan Hurley-Glowa (Mercyhurst College)
5:30-8:00 Dinner on your own
5:30-7:00 Screening of "Ka-Ding Dong!," a film in progress by Dick Lourie
and Abby Freedman about the "G-Clefs," a doo-wop vocal group that
has been singing together for several decades (Engine)
6:30-8:00 Association for Korean Music, Business Meeting
(Robert Provine, Chair) (Fountainview)
7:00-8:00 Film: "A Spirit Here Today: A Scrapbook of Chopi Village
Music"
Gei Zantzinger (Constant Spring Productions) (Engine)
8:00 p.m. Concert: Duquesne University Tambouritzans (B&O, Atchison,
Topeka, Santa Fe)
SATURDAY, October 25
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
SEM Editorial Board Meeting
(James Cowdery, Chair) (Board)
SEM Development Committee
(Margarito Mazo, Chair) (Caboose)
SEM Chapter Officers Meeting
(Michael Zinn, Chair) (Pullman)
SEM Electronic Communications Committee
(Roger Vetter, Chair) (Steamboat)
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Conference Registration (Santa Fe Foyer)
8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Book Exhibit (P&LE)
IX. SESSIONS: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
9.1.1 SEM Education Committee Forum, Part 1: Contexts of Music
Learning: Promises and Realities for Our Students (Caboose)
Chair: Kari Veblin; Discussant: Ric Trimillos (University of Hawaii)
8:30-9:30 "The School as Field' in Ethnomusicology
Kati Szego (Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland)
9.1.2 SEM Education Committee Forum, Part 2: Chants in Two Team
Sports (Caboose)
9:30-10:00 "'It's a Girl Bonding Thing': Women's Softball Chants"
Ramona Holmes (Seattle Pacific University, Seattle)
10:00-10:30 "Samoan Cricket in Seattle"
Cliff Sloane (Northwestern Folklife, Seattle)
9.2 SEM Forum: Queering Ethnomusicology (Pullman)
Co-Chairs: Brian Currid (University of Chicago) and Zoe Sherinian (Oberlin
College); Discussants: Carolina Robertson (University of Maryland, College
Park) and Brian Currid
8:30-8:50 "Queer Orientalism"
Philip Brett (University of California, Riverside)
8:50-9:10 "Identities of Queerness"
Jennifer Fraser (Brown University)
9:10-9:30 "What is Queer Ethnomusicology? Cautionary Notes from the Mid-
Nineteenth Century"
Gillian Rodger (University of Pittsburgh)
9:30-9:45 "Interdisciplinary Queeries: Anthropology's Offerings Toward a Queer
Ethnomusicology"
Zoe Sherinian (Oberlin)
9:45-10:00 "Queer Music Strategies and the Invention of Gay Pride: The
Ethnomusicology and Ethnography of Austria's Rainbow Parade"
Billy Vaughn (University of Chicago) and Matti Bunzl
(University of Chicago)
9.3 SEM Panel: Musical Identities: China (Coach)
Chair: Helen Rees (University of California, Los Angeles)
8:30-9:00 "Lolo: The Negotiation of Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Chinese
Popular Music"
Nimrod Bernoviz (University of Pittsburgh)
9:00-9:30 "Performer-Centered or Composer-Centered?: Insiders' Views on the
Reformed Beijing Opera"
Jingfa Sun (The Ohio State University)
9:30-10:00 "Contesting Histories: 'Imagined' Narratives of a Composer"
Tak Wan Christopher Pak (University of Pittsburgh)
10:00-10:30 "Delocalizing Images: Hybridity and Disjuncture in Contemporary
Mainland Chinese Popular Music"
Mercedes M. Dujunco (University of Alberta)
9.4 SEM Panel: Popular Music/Politics (Fountainview)
Chair: Virginia Danielson (Harvard University)
8:30-9:00 "On the Politics of Labelling Popular Musics in the Caribbean"
Jocelyne Guilbault (University of Ottawa)
9:00-9:30 "Mr. B's Blues: The Cultural Politics of Early Bebop"
Scott DeVeaux (University of Virginia)
9:30-10:00 "Performing Indianness: Aesthetics and Politics of Folkloric Festivals
in Highland Bolivia"
Thomas Solomon (University of Texas, Austin)
10:00-10:30 "'A Handshake Business': The Ethics of Hip-Hop Mix Tapes"
Joseph Schloss, (University of Washington)
9.5 SEM Panel: Issues in Ethnography and History (Steamboat)
Chair: R. Anderson Sutton (University of Wisconsin)
8:30-9:00 "'We'll Even Take Professor Ward Today:' Reflections on
Ethnography and Salvation in the Study of an Apostolic Pentecostal
Church"
Larry F. Ward (Central Michigan University)
9:00-9:30 "An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of the Drumset"
Alan Waters (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
9:30-10:00 "Oi To the World: A History of the Skinhead Music Phenomenon"
Shari Hochhauser (Kent State University)
10:00-10:30 "The History of Gagaku and the Idea of Japanese Homogeneity"
Richard C. Miller (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
8:30-9:30 SEM Archiving Committee Meeting (Laurel Sercombe, Chair)
(Board)
10:30-10:45 Break (P&LE)
X. SESSIONS: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
10.1 IASPM Plenary Session 2: What is to be Done:? Future Directions for
Popular Music Studies (Fountainview)
10:45-12:15 Chair: Anahid Kassabian (Fordham University)
David Brackett (SUNY, Binghamton)
Steve Jones (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Anahid Kassabian (Fordham University)
Line Grenier (Universite de Montreal)
Will Straw (McGill University)
10.2 SEM Education Committee, Part 3, Panel: Why Janie Can't Groove
(Caboose)
Chair Kari Veblen; Discussant: Paul Berliner
8:30-9:00 "Incorporating Muses Equals Transmitting Tradition"
Charles Keil (State University of New York, Buffalo)
9:00-9:30 "Why Janie Doesn't Have to Read Music"
Allen Farmello (State University of New York, Buffalo)
9:30-10:00 "Mentoring a Tradition"
Patricia O'Toole (State University of New York, Buffalo)
10.3 SEM Panel: Music on the Move: Transformations (Engine)
Chair: Louise Meintjes (Duke University)
10:45-11:15 "Evening Mass in the Iona Abbey: Music on the Move"
Ellen Sinatra (University of California, Los Angeles)
11:15-11:45 "The Baha'i World Congress: The Unfolding of a Paradigmatic Shift
in the Role of Music and Musicians in Baha'i Community Life"
Pauline Tuttle (University of Washington)
11:45-12:15 "Subjectivities and the Nation: Music in Japanese Modernity"
Christian Molstrom (University of California, Los Angeles)
10.4 SEM Panel: Improvisation (Coach)
Chair: Rolf Groesbeck (Vanderbilt University)
10:45-11:15 "Jazz/Rock Fusion: Improvisation and Identity in the Studio"
Steven F. Pond (University of California, Berkeley)
11:15-11:45 "Emergent Qualities of Collectively Improvised Performance: A Study
of an Egalitarian, Intercultural, Improvising Trio"
David Borgo (University of California, Los Angeles)
11:45-12:15 "Form and Formlessness: Musical Concept and Process in Chinese
Buddhist Daily Service"
Pi-Yen Chen (University of Chicago)
10.5 SEM Panel: Musical Identities: Africa (Steamboat)
Chair: Jay Pillay (Hampshire College)
10:45-11:15 "Restricting the Narrative of Womanhood Through Song: The
Women Dodo Singers in Kenya"
Patricia Opondo (University of Natal)
11:15-11:45 "A World Apart? Nation, Identity, and Popular Music in Post-
Apartheid South Africa"
Lara Allen (Queen's College, Cambridge, UK)
11:45-12:15 "Children's Musical Development in Non-Industrialized Zimbabwe"
Natalie Jones Kreutzer (Indiana University)
10.6 SEM Panel: Musical Identities: California (Pullman)
Chair: Edward Herbst (Middlebury College)
10:45-11:15 "Fishing in the Ocean of Imaginary Brazil: Transnational Identity
among Brazilian Musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area"
Andrew Connell (University of California, Los Angeles)
11:15-11:45 "'The Geese in the Smog'": Irish Traditional Music in Los Angeles"
Paulette Gershen (University of California, Los Angeles)
11:45-12:15 "San Francisco: Resisting a Queer Musical 'Ethnography'"
Judith Peraino (City College, San Francisco)
10.7 SEM Archiving Committee Forum: "Indigenous Knowledge in the
World Marketplace", Archiving Committee (Paddlewheel)
10:45-12:15 Chair: Laurel Sercombe (University of Washington)
Panelists: Sherylle Mills, Dieter Christensen, J. Lawrence
Witzleben
12:15-1:30 Lunch on your own
12:30- 2:30 Buses to the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland
(leaving every half hour)
12:30-3:00 Free time in Oakland
1:00-3:00 Open House at the Semester at Sea Program, 811 William Pitt Union
Building, University of Pittsburgh.
12:15-1:30
SEM Workshop: West African Music and Dance (Steamboat)
Fredrick Kwasi Dunyo (Toronto and Ghana)
SEM Council Meeting (Caboose)
Society for Asian Music: General Membership Meeting
(Terry Miller, Chair) (Pullman)
SEM Student Concerns Committee, Business Meeting
(Joan Bentley Hoffman and Nancy E. Curry, Co-Chairs) (Coach)
SEM Committee on the Status of Women, Business Meeting
(Deborah Wong and Elizabeth Tolbert, Co-Chairs) (Paddlewheel)
12:30-1:30 Film: "The Singing Culture of the Rusyn Minority of Eastern
Slovakia" (Engine)
Robert Carl Metil (University of Pittsburgh)
12:45 p.m. IASPM General Business Meeting (Fountainview)
3:00-4:00 Reception (Stephen Foster Memorial Social Room, University of
Pittsburgh)
4:00-5:00 Charles Seeger Lecture: Adelaida Reyes Schramm (Stephen Foster
Memorial Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh)
5:30-6:30 SEM Annual General Business Meeting (Stephen Foster Memorial
Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh)
6:30 p.m. Buses to Hotel
6:30-8:00 Dinner on your own
7:00-8:00 Film: "A Spirit Here Today Scrapbook of Chopi Village Music"
(Engine) Gei Zantzinger (Constant Spring Productions)
8:00-10:00 Concert of Music from India (Stephen Foster Memorial
Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh)
10:00 p.m. - Buses to Hotel
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - SEM Council Meeting (Steamboat)
8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Conference Registration (Santa Fe Foyer)
8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Book Exhibit (P&LE)
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - SEM Board of Directors Meeting (Board Room)
SESSIONS: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11.1 SEM Panel: Reading Race and Gender in Musical Performance (Engine)
Chair: Jane Sugarman (SUNY at Stony Brook)
9:00-9:30 "Performing and Reading the Female in Shanghai Traditional Opera"
Jonathan P. J. Stock (University of Durham, UK)
9:30-10:00 "Takarazuka and the Structure of Fantasy: Female Musical Theater
for Women in Japan"
Mi-hwa Min (University of Hawaii)
10:00-10:30 "Why Does Race Trump Gender? A Call for the Critical Study of
Gender in Black Popular Music"
Kyra D. Gaunt (University of Virginia)
10:30-11:00 "'Ain't Nuthin' but a She-Thing'": Women, Race, and Class
Representation in Rap"
Cheryl L. Keyes (University of California, Los Angeles)
11.2 SEM Panel: Identity and Context in Three European Instrumental
Traditions (Pullman)
Chair: James Kimball (State University of New York, Geneseo)
9:00-9:30 "The Fiddle in Changing Context: Two Polish Examples"
James Kimball (State University of New York, Geneseo)
9:30-10:00 "Different Tunings for Norway's 'Normal' Fiddle: From Dance
Evening and Kitchen Musing to the Contest Stage"
Chris Goertzen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
10:00-10:30 "Instrumental Ensembles in Transylvania: Tradition in Transition"
Colin Quigley (University of California, Los Angeles)
11.3 IASPM Panel: Speaking Identity Musically (Coach)
Chair: Val Morrison (Carleton University)
9:00-9:30 "I'm a DJ, I Am What I play: Genre and Identity at a College Radio
Station"
Theo Cateforis (SUNY Stony Brook)
9:30-10:00 "Every Inch of My Love: Led Zeppelin and the Problem of Cock
Rock"
Steve Waksman (University of Minnesota)
10:00-10:30 "Big Yellow Knuckles: Race, Masculinity, and Hip Hop"
Oliver Wang (University of California, Berkeley)
10:30-11:00 "Which Identity When? The Public Management of Musical Identity
in Quebec"
Val Morrison (Carleton University)
11.4 SEM Panel: Creating New Musical Communities (Steamboat)
Chair: Gila Flam (Jerusalem, Israel)
9:00-9:30 "Mediation, Performance, and Identity"
David Samuels (University of Texas, Austin)
9:30:-10:00 "Music Imagining in Morocco: the Voice of the Gnawa in the Music
of Nas al-Ghawan and Jil Jilala"
Timothy D. Fuson (University of California, Berkeley)
10:00-10:30 "El Que No Tiene de Inga, Tiene de Mandinga: Criollismo and the
Depiction of the Afro-Peruvian and the Andean in LimeÛo Popular
Music"
Javier F. Le¢n (University of Texas, Austin)
11.5 SEM Panel: Music On the Move: A/Crosscurrents (Caboose)
Chair: James Cowdry (Sarah Lawrence)
9:00-9:30 "Indeterminate Origins (A Cultural Theory of American Experimental
Music)"
Alex Lubet (University of Minnesota)
9:30-10:00 "Tradition or Innovation? The Quotation of Traditional Melodies in
New Chinese Music"
Eric Lai (Baylor University)
10:00-10:30 "Ideology, Influence, and Innovation: The Impact of Indonesian
Contact on Australian Aboriginal Music"
Peter G. Toner (Australian National University, Canberra)
10:30-11:00 "Musical Localisms and Identity Reinforcement in International Rap"
David Badagnani (Kent State University)
11.6 SEM Panel: New Directions in Thai Music (Fountainview)
Chair: Terry Miller (Kent State University)
9:00-9:30 "American Ballroom Dance and the Development of the Thai Popular
Song in the 1930s and 1940s: A Musical Process Embedded in a
Political Movement"
Terry Miller (Kent State University)
9:30-10:00 "Moving from Oral to Written Tradition: The Lost Thai Manuscript
Restoration Project"
Panya Roongruang (Kent State University)
10:00-10:30 "Sipsong Panna (China) and Chiang Mai (Thailand): A Comparison
of the Musical Scenes"
Han Kuo-Huang (Northern Illinois University)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 "Religion, Language, and Music: The Temple Schooling of the Dai,
China"
Wei Li (Columbia University)
11:15-11:45 "The Role of Music in the Creation of a Northern Thai Identity"
Andrew Shahriari (Kent State University)