Niagara Chapter SEM Annual Meeting
March 13, 2004
State University College of New York, Fredonia
(Fenton Hall, Room 105) local arrangements information
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Program Niagara Chapter SEM Annual Meeting March 13, 2004 State University College of New York, Fredonia (Fenton Hall, Room 105) local arrangements information |
8:00 Gathering, Greeting, Registration
8:40 Welcome, Dr. Kay Stonefelt, State University College of New York, Fredonia
8:45 SESSION
I: Changing Circumstances
Wah-Chiu Lai (Kent State University), “The Chaozhou (Chinese) Xianshi in
Shantou, Bangkok, and Los Angeles: Questions of Authenticity and
Representation.”
Jeff Cupchik (York University), “’What Language is This In’? Reading
Subjectivity: Debates on Song Text amid the Transcultural Translation of Tibetan
Buddhist Musical Ritual Practices into Western Buddhist Communities.”
Priwan Nanongkham (Kent State University), “Pong Lang Music: A Northeast
Thai Music as an Expression of Ethnic Identity in the Lao-American Community in
Washington, D.C.”
10:15 BREAK
10:30 SESSION
II: Genre Studies
Milagros Quesada (Kent State University), “Appropriation of Cuban Music by
Puerto Rican Musicians: An Emic View.”
Hanita Blair (Syracuse University), “Something to Sing About: Choosing Music
for the Jewish High Holydays.”
Amy Unruh (Kent State University), “Spontaneity and Improvisation in Kpanlogo, A Ghanaian Drumming and Dance Genre.”
12:00 LUNCH AND BRIEF BUSINESS MEETING
1:45 SESSION
III: Local Musics
Carl Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Amateur and
Professional: A Tale of Two ‘Irish’ Bands.”
Joshua Tucker
(University of Michigan), “Musical Mestizaje and Social Change:
Marketing, Migrants, and the Uses of música ayacuchana in Contemporary
Peru.”
Mitzie Collins (Eastman School of Music) and Jim Kimball (State
University College of New York, Geneseo), “Old Time Tunes from Western New York
Played on Hammered Dulcimer and Fiddle”
3:15 BREAK
3:30 SESSION
IV: Changing Perceptions
Stephanie Webster-Cheng (University of Pittsburgh), “The Politics of
Representation: Discourse of the ‘Experimental Trend’ in Ethnomusicology.”
Phong Nguyen (Kent State University), “’Our Song Can Drown Out the Bomb’:
Musical Change since the War in Vietnam.”
Dennis Cole (Kent State University), “’I’m Looking Through You’: A Brief
Glimpse Through Musical Bifocals at the Historical Significance of the Beatles
and the Aesthetic Qualities Inside their Music.”
5:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS (Dr. Stonefelt)
EVENING CONCERT
BY THE FREDONIA AFRICAN ENSEMBLE AND BERNARD WOMA PLAYING
GHANAIAN XYLOPHONES
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