SEM Niagara Chapter Program 2006

Held at the School of the Arts, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, New York Click here for local arrangements

Friday April 7, 2006

8:00 pm Informal mini world music concert Wadsworth Auditorium

Saturday April 8, 2006

8:00 am—8:45 Registration Brodie Hall, SUNY Geneseo

Paper Sessions Held in Room 356A of Brodie Hall

8:45—10:15 Session 1: Diasporic Communities in the United States

The Chaozhou Daluogu in Los Angeles, USA, and Chaoshan District, China

Wah-Chiu Lai (Kent State University)

Scandinavian Fiddling in the United States: A Preliminary Overview

Carl Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Examining Musical Changes in the Antiochian Orthodox Liturgy as Performed in the United States

Jenine Lawson (Eastman School of Music)

10:15—10:30 Brief Reports

10:30—10:45 Break

Display and Power Point Presentation on Hammered Dulcimers in Western New York

Mitzie Collins (Eastmen School of Music)

10:45—12:15 Session 2: Continuity and Change in Musical Traditions

“The most remarkable feature of culture is non-change.” (Blacking 1977:17)

Andrea Kuzmich (York University)

Innovation in the Guise of Tradition: Music Among The Chin Population Of Indianapolis, USA

Heather MacLachlan (Cornell University)

Younger Musicians in the Rochester Puerto Rican Community

Ian Gendreau (SUNY Geneseo)

12:15—2:00 Lunch/Business Meeting

2:00—3:30 Session 3: Ethnomusicology as Self-Awareness

"Music, Trance, and "Truth:" Perspectives and Questions

Amy Unruh (Kent State University)

“Concert or Communitas: Jazz and Ritual Space from Nightclub to Concert Hall”

Barry Long (Eastman School of Music)

A Summer with Pansori: Lessons in Singing and Cultural Difference

Cindy Lee (Eastman School of Music)

3:30—3:45 Break

3:45—5:15 Session 4: Music and Politics in Southeast Asia

Contemporizing Traditional Arts : A Safer Form of Engagement?

Nur Intan Murtadza (York University)

Inside the Piphat Ensemble: Interpretations of Clientship and Class Structure in Thai Society Regarding Thai Classical Music

Priwan Nanongkham (Kent State University)

Straddling The Maekhong River: Political Challenges To Thai-Lao Music Scholarship

Terry Miller (Kent State University)

5:30 Dinner

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