FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
PROGRAM
NOVEMBER 18-21, 1999
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Society for Ethnomusicology 1999
Annual Meeting
Board of Directors
Kay K. Shelemay, President
Bonnie C. Wade, President-Elect
Regula B. Qureshi, First Vice President
Mellonee Burnim, Second Vice President
Terry E. Miller, Treasurer
Judith Gray, Secretary
R. Anderson Sutton, Member-at-Large (even)
Donna Buchanan, Member-at-Large (odd)
SEM Business Office
Lyn Pittman, Secretary
Ruth M. Stone, Office Manager
SEM Program Committee
Thomas Turino, Chair
Mellonee Burnim
Rob Provine
Martin Stokes
Steve Loza
SEM Local Arrangements Committee
Stephen Slawek, Chair
Veit Erlmann, Program
Andrew DellíAntonio, Exhibits
Tom Gruning, Assistant to the Chair
Claudette Campbell, Conference Coordinator
Peter Kvetko, Student Volunteers
Charles Seeger Lecturer
Mantle Hood
Principal Exhibitors
SEM COUNCIL Term ending 1999
Susan Miyo Asai
Benjamin Brinner
Patricia Shehan Campbell
Beverley Diamond
Framk Gunderson
Margaret Kartomi
Cheryl Keyes
Victoria Lindsay Levine (Council President)
Rebecca S. Miller
Manuel Pena
Jennifer Post
Janet Sturman
Judith Vander
J. Lawrence Witzleben
SEM COUNCIL Term ending 2000
Carol M. Babiracki (Council Secretary)
Judith Becker
Veit Erlmann
Meilu Ho
Louise Meintjes
Bruno Nettl
Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Anne K. Rasmussen
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata
Margaret Sarkissian
Philip Schuyler
Zoe Sherinian
Bonnie Wade
Robert Witmer
SEM COUNCIL Term ending 2001
Lara Allen
Gregory Barz
Ter Ellingson
Aaron A. Fox
Leslie Gay, Jr.
IreneMarkoff
John Morgan OíConnell
Helen Rees
Cynthia Schmidt
Su Zheng
Jane C. Sugarman
Cynthia Wong
Philip Yampolsky
Christine R. Yano
Acknowledgements of contributionsó
Michael Tusa,
Acting Director, School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin
Charles Roeckle,
Acting Dean, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Pebbles Wadsworth
Performing Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Anthropology
Center for Asian Studies
Center for Mexican-American Studies
Ethnomusicology Program
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
8:00-5:00 Registration Texas Foyer
8:30-10:30
1B Music, Time, and Place Hill Country B
8:30 (Dis)playing the tama: Finnish Musicians Learning Senegalese Music
9:00 Movement, Land and Yolngu Song
9:30 Nuevo Flamenco: Embracing the Future/Reclaiming the Past
1C Issues in West African Music Hill Country C
8:30 The "Common Stock" of Ewondo Speech Surrogate Drum Phrases in
9:00 Translation in Language and Concept: "Master Drummer" in Ewe Music
9:30 Loss and Survival in a Royal Ghanaian Drumming Tradition
10:00 Schisms, Unity and Musical Representations in the Fanti Society of Ghana
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
1D "The Green Fields of America:" North American Manifestations of
8:30 Worldly Traditions Transformed: Music and Dance in Shaker Worship
9:00 Celtic Expansion and Contested Meanings: Irish Dance Classes in the Midwest
9:30 "We'll Rant and We'll Roar:" Newfoundland Politics, Popular Music, and
10:00 Can We Turn the Regular Music on Now?: Transformation and
1E Chinese and Japanese Music in Transnational
8:30 Towards a Global Music: The "Universal Egg" and Toru Takemitsu's
9:00 Researching Traditional Japanese Music Culture in the International Context:
9:30 Healing Sounds: Chinese Music and the Marketing of New Age Ideology
10:00 Local Mutation and Transnational Reconfiguration: The Case of the Peony
10:30--11:00 Coffee Break
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
11:00 The End of Music as We Know It?: MP3, Piracy, and the Challenge to the
11:30 Music Piracy, Copyright Law and the Musicians in Between
12:00 An Argentine Copyright Adventure: Do You Really Have What it Takes to
12:30 Discussion
2B Race and Cuban Musical Discourse, Past and
11:00 Music, Race, and Cuban Conjuntos in Havana, 1948-1952: Historical
11:30 Traveling Diasporic Cultures: Rumba, Community and Identity in New York
12:00 Changui and the Racial Categorization of Folklore in Guantanamo, Cuba
12:30 Musical Minorismo and Racial Discourse in Havana of the 1930s
2C Women, Music and Performance in the
11:00 Turkish Women Poet-Singers: Negotiation of Gender and Genre
11:30 Musical Performance and Creative Process: A Berber Poetess and
12:00 The Lebanese Singer Fairuz: The Creation of an Image
12:30 Ottoman Classical Music and Women
2D Meaning and Emotion in Korean Music Texas V
11:00 "It's in the Air We Breath:" Korean Perceptions of Korean Music
11:20 Imagining Music: The Construction of Meaning and Emotion in the Music of
11:50 Tension and Release as Physical and Auditory Signs of Affect in Korean Music
12:10 Emotion and Meaning in the Early Choson Period: the Debate Over Yoak
12:20 Meaning and Emotion in North Korean "National Music"
12:40 Discussion
2E Narratives of Cultural Continuity: Four Moments in
11:30 Narratives of Survival: Three Twentieth Century Jewish Musicians from Poland
12:00 More than Mere Ornament: The Case of the Klezmer Krekhts
12:30 Songs of Our Fathers? Women and the Klezmer Experience
11:00-12:00
1:00-2:30 Lunch Break
2:00-5:00 Exhibits Open Texas I
3B Issues in African Music Texas V
2:30 Tradition and Change in the Song Style of a South African Denomination
3:00 Situated Musical Competence: Insights from the Composition of Three Songs
3:30 "Don't Live Primitive Lives Anymore": Nationalist Discourse and Modernity
4:00 Tradition, Process, and Emergence: Ethnographically Tracing the History of a
2:30 Authenticating the Female Gidayu: Gender, Westernization, and
3:00 Dana Goes International: The Crossing of Musical, National and Sexual
3:30 Unique Representations of Femininity in Punk and Pop
4:00 "If You Want to Win, You've Got to Play it Like a Man": Women Fiddlers'
2:30 From Tagulaylay to Bahay Kubo to Titanic: Contemporary Philippine Pasyon
3:00 Indigenous Representations: Araucanian Contributions to Sacred Procession
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
3:30 We Know Your God--He is Our God Also: Degrees of African Identity in the
4:00 Discussion
3:00 Performing Disability, Heterosexuality and Whiteness in Competitive Ball
3:30 Departing from an Event
4:00 Dancing Between the Lines
4:30 Discussion
6:00-7:30 Society for Asian Music Board Meeting Big Thicket
7:00-12:00 Jam Session Panhandle
7:00-8:30 Video: Musical Instruments of Kacch
7:00-8:30 Video: Bomba: Dancing the Drum Hill Country B
7:30-8:30 Body Meets the Board Texas V and VI
8:00-11:00 Association for Chinese Music Research Hill Country C
8:00-6:00 Conference Registration Texas Foyer
8:30-10:30
4A Ethnomusicology and History I: Ethnography and Historical
8:30 Shadows from the Past: Notes on an Epistemological Perspective for
9:00 Excursions in the Historical Past, or a Report on Ethnomusicological
9:30 Historical Ethnography: How Do We Research and Represent Musical Change
10:00 Intersecting Histories of Music and Scholars in Polish Mountain Villages
8:30 Cold War Cultural Exchange: The United States and Poland
9:00 A Musical Identity in the Process of Westernization: A Study of the Korean
9:30 Flexible Boundaries of Ethnicity and Musical Repertoire: Balkan Politics in the
8:30 The Metallic Exotic: Balinese Gamelan in the Midwest
8:40 "When Can We Improvise?" The Place of Creativity in `Ethno' Performance
8:50 Teaching BAka Performance: What's the `It' that Gets Taught?
9:00 Creating a Community, Negotiating Among Communities: Performing Middle
9:10 Bi-lateral Negotiations in Bimusicality: The William and Mary Middle Eastern
9:20 Who IS it About, Anyhow?: Do We Impose Our Own World Views in
9:30 Should I Feel Distressed About Teaching Gamelan Music in the Cornfields of
9:40 Discussion
8:30 A Deconstruction of a Constructed Genre: A Critical View of the "Oakland
9:00 Midnight Sunrise in Jahjouka: Echoes of an Intercultural Collaboration
9:30 "World Jazz:" Expanding the Borders of Jazz History
10:00 From Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz
4E Sound Engineering as Cultural Production: Technology,
8:30 Short-circuiting Perceptual Systems: Timbre in Ambient and Techno Music
9:20 Women Mix Engineers and the Power of Sound
9:45 Engineering Techno-Hybrid Grooves in Indonesian Sound Studios
10:10 Discussion
11:00-1:00
11:30 Locating Lost Performances: An Ethnomusicological Approach to Historical
12:00 Musical References in the Jornal do Brasil, 1891-1998
12:30 Embodied Experience: American Sheet Music Binders and Music in Daily Life,
12:00 Globalization and Fragmentation in the Local Production of Popular Musics
5C Issues in Indonesian Music Hill Country B
11:00 Music and Islam in Post New Order Indonesia
11:30 Creating Tari Tayub: Stories of Sundanese Dance History in West Java,
12:00 The Changes in the Musical Style of Payangan Village Gamelans and their
12:30 Discussion
11:00 Out of the Rhythm Section: The Role of the Bajo Sexto in Tejano
11:30 Tejano vs. Norteno: Dueling Accordions in the Texas- Mexican Border Region
5F Theorizing Asian American Musics: Identity, Negotiations,
11:00 Asian Persuasion: Processes of Intercultural Music Performance in Asian
11:20 Folk and Fusion: Asian American Musical Identities in the 1970s
11:40 Finding an Asian American Audience: The Problem of Listening
12:20 Journeys: Rethinking Asian American Cultural Identity Through Music
12:40 Discussion
1:00-2:30 Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 Performance: Western/Asian Hybridity in
1:00-2:00 SEM Chapters Meeting Texas V
2:30 Where's the Riot in "Zoot Suit Riot"?
3:00 "Contexting" and the Creation of Meta-Narratives: The Historicizing of
3:30 Kalenda from Colonial Origins to Contemporary Invention: a Study in Distant
4:00 A Drum by Any Other Name
2:30 Stepping into the Twenty-First Century: Changes in the Transmission of Irish
3:00 Ballroom Dance: The Appeal and Problem of the Exotic
4:00 Shifting Selves: Embodied Metaphors in Dance
6C The Musical Indigenization of Christian Ritual Hill Country C
2:30 Bulabo: Indigenizing `Sacred Power' in Sukumaland, Tanzania
3:00 Inculturation is Indianization not Hinduization
3:30 Popularizing Sacred Performance: A View from 1990s South Africa
4:00 Contradictions of Musical Vernacular and Sacred Ritual: Latin American "Folk
6D Music, Community, and the Internet Texas V
2:30 S(t)imulating Community: Virtual Drum Corps and the Hyperreal
3:00 In the Virtual Field: Ethnography and Internet Communities
3:30 Ghetto-Youth: Cyberspace and Constructions of Community Surrounding
4:00 Musical Life in Softcity: Ethnomusicologists and the Post-Human Other
6E Performance of the Oral Tradition in
2:30 Creating a Cultural and Religious Synthesis Through Music: The Sabbath
3:00 Constructing Authenticity Through the Performance of Sacred Text
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
3:30 A Different Way to Pray: Aesthetics of Music and Worship Among Reform
4:00 "As if We Were at the Barricades:" Singing Practices and Survival Strategies of
6:45 Buses leave the Hyatt to go to the University of Texas Performing
7:00-8:00 Video Showing: Qoyllur Rit'i: A Womanís Journey Hill Country A
8:00 Concert: Los Folkoristas, Mexico City
7:00-8:30 SEM Education Committee Hill Country A
9:00-2:00 Exhibits Open Texas I
8:30-10:30
8:30 Musical Meaning, Emotional Experience, and the Social Significance of Vodou
9:00 Song Texts and Emotional Transformation: Arabic Love-Lyrics as Tools of
9:30 Phantom Nostalgia and Recollecting (from) the Colonial Past in Madagascar
10:00 Discussion
8:30 Creativity and Control in Trinidad Carnival Competitions
8:50 From Here to Confraternity: Competition and Contest in American
9:10 Cultural Policy and Cultural Practice: The State (of) Sundanese Wayang Golek
9:30 Changing Traditions in Post-Colonial Native American Musical Practices
9:50 Discussion
7C Music and Nationalism Hill Country C
8:30 "To Uplift National Integrity and Safeguard Cultural Heritage": State
9:00 From `the Other' to `the Self:í Western Music in Korea and Nationalist
9:30 Baiao, Luiz Gonzaga, Lampiao, and Vargas; Or the Music, the Musician, the
10:00 The Ghana Dance Ensemble: Music, Dance and the Construction of Post-
7D Issues in Indian Music Texas V
8:30 Traditions in Transition: Sarod and Sitar Performance in the Early Twentieth
9:00 Historical Evidence for Dhrupad as a Musical Genre at the Mughal Court
9:30 Vanquished Warriors Make Great Musicians
10:00 Discussion
7E Reflections on Ethnographic Method Texas VI
8:30 Which Side Are You On? "Victim Art" and the Cultural Politics of the Art--
9:00 When You Know Something is Happening, But You Don't Know What it is
9:30 Writing Down and Writing Up: The Possibilities of On-Site Ethnography
10:00 Beyond the Six O'clock News: In Search of Palestinian Music and Dance
7F The Study of Musical Instruments Texas VII
8:30 "Them, Those, and Us:" Mapping the Variety of Cultural Traditions of Mizmar
9:00 Voicing/Ventriloquizing: The Violin in South India
9:30 In Search of the Indian Guitar
10:00 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
11:00-1:00
11:00 A Socio-Emotional Ontology of Musical Symbolism
11:30 Dimensions of Feeling and Emotion in Ritual Music of the Kotas, a South
12:00 Nashe (Ours): A Case Study of Identity, Emotions, Music, and Dance Among
8B Music Theory and Social Meaning Texas V
11:00 Spiralling Chinese Cyclic Theory and Modal Jazz Practice Across Millenia: The
11:30 The Role of the Baron Rodolphe D'Erlanger in Shaping Modern Tunisian
12:00 Reaching Back and Reaching Out: The Persian Radif since 1978
12:30 Analogy and the Genesis of Abstract Musical Concepts
11:00 The Bandit, the Hero, and the Narco: Subcultural Values, Commercialism, and
11:30 "The Disc is not the Avenue:" Live and Studio Aesthetics in Samba Recording
12:00 Brazilian Samba as a Practice and as a Hierarchic Structure: A Synchronic
12:30 Discussion
11:00 That Our Voices May Be Heard: Repatriation and Contemporary
11:30 Singing for Garfish: Music and Woodland Intertribalism in Oklahoma
12:00 Recording Culture: Aesthetics and Social Power in a Native American
11:00 Talking About Timbre
11:20 Discourse on Timbre Among Temple Drummers in Kerala, India
11:40 Vocal Articulation in Country Music: a Micro-analysis
12:00 Icons of Style, Indexes of Identity: Country Singing in San Carlos
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
12:20 Metaphors of Sound: Structure and Use in Music Production
12:40 Discussion
1:30-2:30 Performance Workshop: Making Hard Stuff Easy:
1:30-2:00 Video Showing: Play Tabla Hill Country C
2:00-2:30 Video Showing:Wayang golek: Performing arts
3:00-4:15 Charles Seeger Lecture Texas II-VII
4:30-5:30 SEM Annual Membership Meeting Texas II-VII
6:45 Buses Depart to The University of Texas
7:30-9:00 U.T. Javanese Gamelan Concert, directed by Pak Rasito Purwa
9:00 Buses Return to the Hyatt-Regency Hotel
9:30-12:00 Cajun Dance with the Gulfcoast Playboys Texas V-VII
7:00-9:00 SEM Council Meeting Texas VI
9:00-11:00 Exhibits open Texas I
9A Music in Diaspora Communities Hill Country A
8:30 A Question for Gomidas
9:00 What Color is Music?
9:30 "Songs the Gypsy Played for Us": "Gypsy Music," Exoticism and "Heimat"
10:00 The History of Bhojpuri Song: An Odyssey Across Three Oceans
8:30 "Give up the Dhol:" "Grey-out" and Traditional Musician Communities in
9:00 "World Music" Before the Global Age: The Case of Indonesia's Kroncong
9:30 The Reception of Christian Pop in Hungary
10:00 Vallenato: Relocalizing the Global
9C Music and the Sacred Hill Country B
8:30 Improvisation, Variation, and Divine Embodiment in the Performance of Cuban
9:00 Sacred Representations: Hallowed Ground and Festival Bound
9:30 The Traditional in the Post-traditional World: Buddhist Monastic Ritual and
9:00 It Just Doesn't Sound Authentic: Reflections on the Use of Live
9:30 What Monophony Means: History, Progress and the Development of
8:30 Amateur Music-Making as a Site for Negotiating Musical Aesthetics: the
9:00 Chinese Street Opera and the Production of Authenticity in Singapore
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3:00-5:00 Registration Texas Foyer
6:00-10:00 PM Board of Directors Meeting Deluxe Suite 1510
7:00-8:30 SEM Editoral Advisory Committee Big Thicket
8:00-10:00 Coffee Texas Foyer West
9:00-1:00 Exhibit Setup Texas I
1:00-6:00 Exhibits Open Texas I
8:30-1:00 Board of Directors Meeting Deluxe Suite 1510
1A Roundtable--Copyright and Conceptions of Intellectual Property
in Cross-cultural Perspective Hill Country A
Chair: Jennifer Milioto, University of Chicago
Anthony McCann, University of Limerick/Smithsonian Institution
Sherylle Mills, Smithsonian Institution
Nancy Guy, University of California at San Diego
Vanana de Mel, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Harris Berger, Texas A&M University
Tina K. Ramnarine, Queen's University of Belfast
Steven Knopoff, University of Adelaide
Loren Chuse, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: David Locke, Tufts University
Cameroon
Paul Neeley, University of Ghana at Legon
Matthew Talmage, University of California-Santa Barbara
Alexander Gelfand, University of Illinois
Kenichi Tsukada, Hiroshima City University
Celtic and English Music Texas V
Chair: Jennifer DeLapp, University of Maryland, College Park
Jennifer DeLapp, University of Maryland, College Park
Lucy M. Long, Bowling Green State University
Identity
Cory W. Thorne, Bowling Green State University
Accommodation in an Irish-American Pub
Session
Suzanne Camino, University of Michigan
Contexts TexasVI
Chair: Fred Lieberman, University of California at Santa Cruz
November Steps
Joann Koh, DePauw University
Minoru Miki and the Adelaide Festival
A. Kimi Coaldrake, University of Adelaide
Thomas Brett, New York University
Pavilion
Isabel K.F. Wong, University of Illinois
11:00-1:00
2A Copyright and Ownership Hill Country A
Chair: Louise Meintjes, Duke University
Established Order
Bradley C. Shank, UCLA
Alex Perullo, Indiana University
Study Popular Music?
Jane L. Florine, Chicago State University
Present Hill Country B
Chair: Robin Moore, Temple University
Perspective on Contemporary Salsa Aesthetics
David Garcia, CUNY Graduate School
and Havana
Lisa Knauer, New York University
Ben Lapidus, CUNY Graduate School
Robin Moore, Temple University
Middle East Hill Country C
Chair: Margaret Rausch, Free University of Berlin
Jennifer Petzen, University of Washington
Professional Singer
Margaret Rausch, Free University of Berlin
Inis Wienrich, University of Bamberg
Sehvar Besiroglu, Harvard University
Chair: Andrew P. Killick, Florida State University
Keith Howard, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London
Korea and the Korean Diasporas of the Former Soviet Union and China
Hae-Kyung Um, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden
Byong Won Lee, University of Hawaii
Jocelyn Clark, Harvard University
Dae-Cheol Sheen, Kangnung National University
Yiddish Music TexasVI
Chair: Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
11:00 Music and Nationalism in Three Major Melodramas of A. Goldfadn
Seth L. Wolitz, University of Texas at Austin
Hankus Netsky, New England Conservatory
Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
Franya Berkman, Wesleyan University
2F Workshop: Bridging Musical Worlds:
Assessing Music Workshops Abroad Texas VII
Steven Cornelius, Bowling Green State University
SEM Committee on the Status of Women Big Thicket
SEM Long Range Planning Committee Hill Country A
SEM Electronic Communications Committee Hill Country B
SEM Development Committee Hill Country C
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
2:30-4:30
3A Nonference--Changing Copyright Laws and their Implications for
Ethnomusicology Hill Country A
Chair: Anthony McCann
David Sanjek
Anthony Seeger
Laurel Sercombe
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
2:30-4:30 (continued)
Chair: Christopher Waterman, University of California, Los Angeles
Sara Miller, Kent State University
in Northwestern Congo
Brian Schrag, University of California, Los Angeles
Among Matengo Dancers
Stephen Hill, University of Illinois
Dance Form in Malawi
Lisa Gilman, Indiana University
3C Gender and Music Hill Country C
Chair: Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music
Governmental Policy in Japanese Performing Arts
Kiwamu Nakamura, Washington University
Borders
Yossi Maurey, University of Chicago
Alyssa Lightbourn, University of California, Los Angeles
Experiences in Fiddle Contests
Sherry A. Johnson, York University
3D Music in Religious Occasions Hill Country B
Chair: Regula Qureshi, University of Alberta
M. Arlene Chongson, University of Texas at Austin
in Colonial Chile
Beth K. Aracena, University of Chicago
2:30-4:30 (continued)
Church Music of Ghana
Paul W. Humphreys, Loyola Marymount University
3E Connecting Events Texas VI
Chair: Carol Babiracki, Syracuse University
Discussant: Beverley Diamond, York University
2:30 Re/Placing Events
Beverley Diamond, York University
Room Dancing
Hanna V””at”inen, Abo Akademi University
Pirkko Moisala, Abo Akademi University
Carol Bariracki, Syracuse University
5:30-7:00 Gala Opening Reception, hosted by Office of the Dean,
College of Fine Arts, University of Texas Texas II and III
and its Neighbors Hill Country A
Amy Catlin, University of California, Los Angeles
Roberta L. Singer, City Lore and Searchlight Films
Chair: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, SEM President
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
9:00-1:00 Exhibits Open Texas I
2:00-5:00
Method Hill Country A
Chair: William Noll, Kyiv Music Academy
Historical Ethnomusicology
Eriko Kobayashi, University of Texas at Austin
Fieldwork in Mozart's Vienna
Jonathan Stock, University of Sheffield
in an Oral Tradition
Gregory D. Booth, University of Auckland
Timothy J. Cooley, University of California at Santa Barbara
4B Music and Ethnicity in the United States Hill Country B
Chair: Terrence Lui, Public Corporation for the Arts
Paula Savaglio, Newman University
Students at the Peabody Conservatory
Sunghye Joo, University of Maryland, College Park
Seattle Junior Tamburitzans
Jill Ann Johnson, University of Washington
10:00 Discussion
4C What You Mean, `We'?: Method, Goal, and Identity in
Academic `Ethno' Ensembles Texas V
Chair: Ted Solis, Arizona State University
Respondent: David Locke, Tufts University
David Harnish, Bowling Green State University
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
4C (continued)
David W. Hughes, SOAS, University of London
Michelle Kisliuk, University of Virginia
Kelly Gross, University of Virginia
Eastern Music for a Diverse Middle Eastern and American Public
Scott Marcus, University of California-Santa Barbara
Music Ensemble
Anne K. Rasmussen, The College of William and Mary
Teaching `Ethno' Ensembles?"
Ted Solis, Arizona State University
Iowa?
Roger Vetter, Grinnell College
4D Jazz, Blues, and Hybridity Texas VI
Chair: Ingrid Monson, Washington University
Blues"
Jeffrey Callen, University of California, Santa Barbara
A. Scott Currie, New York University
E. Taylor Atkins, Northern Illinois University
Raul Fernandez, University of California, Irvine
Performativity, Phenomenonology Texas VII
Chair: Paul D. Greene, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Thomas Porcello, Vassar College
Cornelia Fales, University of California, Santa Barbara
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
4E (continued)
8:55 Engineering Spaces in Nepal's Digital Stereo Remix Culture
Paul D. Greene, Pennsylvania State University
Boden Sandstrom, University of Maryland, College Park
Jeremy Wallach, University of Pennsylvania
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
5A Ethnomusicology and History II--The Use of Printed Sources in
Ethnomusicology Hill Country A
Chair: Judith McCulloh, University of Illinois Press
11:00 It's What They Say, Not How They Say It: Source Materials in
(Ethno)Historical Ethnomusicology
Erik D. Gooding, Indiana University
Research
Gillian M. Rodger, Garland Publishing
Andrew Kaye, Albright College (Reading, Pennsylvania)
1840-1860
Daniel Cavicchi, Rhode Island School of Design
5B Transnational Processes and the Local Production of Popular
Music Texas VI
Chair: Philip Schuyler, University of Washington
11:00 "We Just Copy...:" Rap and the Creolization of Culture in Northern Malawi
John Fenn, Indiana University
11:30 Capitalism and Competition: Changes in Taarab Music Performance in Zanzibar
Janet Topp Fargion, British Library National Sound Archive
Jocelyne Guilbault, University of California-Berkeley
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Chair: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Charles Capwell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Indonesia
Henry Spiller, University of California, Berkeley
Repertories
Loren Nerell, University of California, Los Angeles
5D Cajun and Tejano Music Texas V
Chair: Robert Bowman, York University
Conjunto
Louis S. Winant, University of Washington
Catherine Ragland, City University of New York
12:00 In the Cajun Idiom: Technique and Musical Style in Diatonic Accordion
Playing
Mark F. DeWitt, Ohio State University
11:00-12:00
5E Workshop
Breakiní Out in a Cold Seat: Authorship, Ownership
and Agency in the Digital Age Hill Country C
David Sanjek, BMI Archives
Multiplicity Texas VII
Chair: Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside
Discussant: Joseph S.C. Lam
American Jazz
Anthony Brown, Asian American Jazz Orchestra
Oliver Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
5F (continued)
12:00 Musical Spaces and Identity Politics: Negotiating an Asian American Existence
in New York City, the Case of Soh Daiko
Paul Yoon, Columbia University
Su Zheng, Wesleyan University
Art Music Composition Panhandle
Jonathan Kramer, North Carolina State University
Christopher Adler, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1:00-2:30 SEM Council Meeting Texas VI
1:00-2:30 SEM Archiving Committee Hill Country A
1:00-2:30 SEM Audio-Visual Committee Hill Country B
2:30-4:30
6A Ethnomusicology and History IIIó
The Construction of History Hill Country A
Chair: Charlotte Frisbie, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Charles Sharp, University of California, Los Angeles
Popular Music on VH-1
Jason Oakes, Columbia University
and Recent History
Julian Gerstin, Western Kentucky University
Jane Freeman Moulin, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
6B Dance and Social Meaning Hill Country B
Chair: Amy Stillman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Step Dance A.R. (After Riverdance)
Dorothea Hast, Southern Connecticut State University
Joanna Bosse, Millikin University
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
6B (continued)
3:30 Ooooooooo!! That's My Ssong!!: The Rupture of the Get-down, Rapture of
African American Bodies
Kyra D. Gaunt, University of Virginia
Tomie Hahn, Tufts University
Chair: T.M. Scruggs, University of Iowa
Gregory Barz, Vanderbilt University
Stephen Duncan, Eastern New Mexico University
Carol Muller, University of Pennsylvania
Masses" and the Misa Campesina Nicaragense
T.M. Scruggs, University of Iowa
Chair: RenÈ T.A. Lysloff, University of California, Riverside
Jonathan Ritter, University of California, Los Angeles
Eric Martin Usner, University of California-Riverside
Tricky
Dale Chapman, University of California, Los Angeles
RenÈ T.A. Lysloff, University of California-Riverside
Jewish Contexts Texas VI
Chair: Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College
Discussant: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University
Morning Prayers of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College
Jeffrey Summit, Tufts University
6E (continued)
Jewish Songleaders
Judah Cohen, Harvard University
a Yiddish Chorus in Manhattan
Marion Jacobson, New York University
2:30-4:30 Poster Session: Aspects of Musical Transmission
Among Cajun Accordion Players Panhandle
Christopher J. Della Pietra, Southeastern Louisiana University
4:30-5:30 SEM Popular Music Section, General Meeting Hill Country A
5:00-6:30 Association for Korean Music Research Hill Country B
6:30-7:30 Society for Asian Music, General Membership
Meeting Hill Country C
Arts Center
7:00-12:00 Jam Session Panhandle
Holly Wissler, University of Idaho
7:00-8:00 C-D ROM Presentation and Forum: Ethnographic
Representation in the Era of Interactive Media Hill Country B
Suzel Ana Reily, Queenís University Belfast
University of Texas Performing Arts Center, Hogg Auditorium
Buses leave the hotel at 6:45, return to hotel at 10:00
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
SEM Editorial Board Hill Country B
Local Arrangements and Program Committees
SEM 99 and SEM 2000 Hill Country C
SEM Student Affairs Committee Big Thicket
8:00-12:00 Conference Registration Texas Foyer
7A Music and Emotion I Hill Country A
Chair: Margarita Mazo, Ohio State University
Ritual Singing
Rebecca Sager, University of Texas at Austin
Ecstasy
Ali Jihad Racy, University of California, Los Angeles
Ron Emoff, University of Texas at Austin
7B Contest-ing Tradition: Cross-Cultural Studies of Musical
Competition Hill Country B
Chair: Shannon Dudley, University of Washington
Discussant: Frank Gunderson
Shannon Dudley, University of Washington
Barbershop Harmony
Gage Averill, New York University
Contests in New Order Indonesia
Andrew Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh
Maria Williams, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Chair: Donna Buchanan, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Patronage of the Sixth Annual Music Competition of the Union of Myanmar (Burma)
Gavin Douglas, University of Washington
Intellectual Discourse
Okon Hwang, Eastern Connecticut State/Wesleyan
Bandit, and the President
Adriana Fernandes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Colonial National Identity
Leigh Creighton, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Daniel Neuman, University of California, Los Angeles
Century
David Trasoff, California State University, San Marcos
Richard Widdess, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Dale Olsen, Florida State University
Ethnography Continuum
Heidi Feldman, University of California, Los Angeles
Edward Herbst, City University of New York
Andrew Killick, Florida State University
Jennifer Ladkani, Florida State University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Chair: Matthew Allen, University of Oklahoma
(Folk Oboe) Performance in Present-Day Egypt
Scott Marcus, University of California-Santa Barbara
Amanda Weidman, Columbia University
Martin Clayton, Open University
8A Music and Emotion II Hill Country A
Chair: Jane Sugarman, State University of New York-Stony Brook
Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins University
Indian Tribe
Richard K. Wolf, Harvard University
Ukrainian-Americans
Daria Lassowsky Nebesh, Independent
Chair: Stephen Slawek, The University of Texas at Austin
60-Tone Case of John Coltrane (1926-67) and Ching Fang (78-37 B.C.)
Hafez Modirzadeh, San Francisco State University
Music Theory
Ruth Davis, Cambridge University
Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois
Marc Perlman, Brown University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
8C Music in Latin America Hill Country C
Chair: Larry Crook, University of Florida, Gainesville
Popular Mexican Music
Helena Simonett, University of Zurich
Frederick Moehn, New York University
Approach
Luiz Gernando Lima, University of Helsinki
8D Native American Music, Intertribalism, and
Technology Hill Country B
Chair: Victoria Lindsay Levine, Colorado College
Representation of Frances Densmore's Teton Sioux Collection, 1911-14
Pauline Tuttle, University of Washington
Victoria Lindsay Levine, Colorado College
Jason Baird Jackson, Gilcrease Museum
Recording Studio
Christopher Scales, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
8E Talking About Timbre Texas VI
Chair: Thomas Solomon, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Steven Feld, New York University
Thomas Solomon, University of Minnesota
Rolf Groesbeck, University of Arkansas-Little Rock
Aaron Fox, Columbia University
David Samuels, University of Massachusetts
8E (continued)
Thomas Porcello, Vassar College
11:00-1:00
8F SEM Education Committee Open Meeting
and Forum Texas VII
Chair: TBA
1:00-2:30 Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 SEM Committee on Applied Ethnomusicology Hill Country A
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20
Balinese Rhythm, Trust, and the Defiance of
Entrainment Panhandle
Michael B. Bakan, Florida State University
Frances Shepherd, Kingston University
of Sunda (West Java) Hill Country C
Martin Clayton, Open University
Mantle Hood, College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University
Pangrawit, Bates Recital Hall
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21
9:00-2:00 SEM Board of Directors Meeting
8:30-11:00
Chair: Timothy Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
Laura Osborn, University of California, Los Angeles
Julia Banzi, University of California, Santa Barbara
during the Nazi Period
Brian Currid, Humboldt University Berlin/University of Jena
Helen Myers, Central Connecticut State University
9B Grey-Out, Creativity, and World Music Texas V
Chair: Eric Charry, Wesleyan University
Rajasthan, India
H. Roger White, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sarah Weiss, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Barbara Rose Lange, University of Houston
Ana Maria Ochoa, Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Chair: Martha Davis, University of Florida at Gainesville
Santeria
Katherine Hagedorn, Pomona College
David Lynch, University of Texas at Austin/Austin Chronicle
the Music Industry
Pi-yen Chen, University of Chicago
9D The Social Significance of Style Hill Country C
Chair: John Murphy, Western Illinois University
Instrumentation in Hip-Hop
Joseph Schloss, University of Washington
Polyphonic Music in Turkey and in Europe
Robert Labaree, New England Conservatory
9E Issues of Authenticity: Three Asian Case Studies Texas VI
Chair: Frederick Lau, California Polytechnic State University
Korean Case
Inok Paek, Queen's University of Belfast
Tong Soon Lee, University of Durham
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