NIAGARA CHAPTER CONFERENCE
Friday April 3 to Sunday April 5, 2009
Cornell University
Lincoln Hall, rooms B-20 and B-21
“Teaching and Performing ‘Traditional’ Musics in ‘Contemporary’ America”
Friday April 3
7:00 pm, B-20: Keynote Address
Dr. Terry Miller, “Where is Beat 4? (With Apologies to Bill Malm)”
8:00 pm, B-20: Old-time music jam, led by Jim Kimball
Saturday April 4
8:30 am, B-21: Continental BREAKFAST served to participants
9:00 am to 10: 30 am, B-20: Panel discussion of conference theme
Neal Zaslaw
(
Bethany
Collier (
Jim
Kimball (SUNY Geneseo)
Steve
Pond (
Martin Hatch
(Cornell University), Moderator; Heather MacLachlan (Cornell University), Chair
10:45 am – 12:15 pm, B-20: Paper Session: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Dustin Wiebe, “Good, Fast and Cheap: My North American Gamelan Experience”
Eric Murray, “Learning, Teaching and Performing Brazilian choro in Kent, Ohio”
Louise Wrazen, “Daughters of tradition or mothers of invention?: music, gender and teaching in diaspora”
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm, B-21: LUNCH served to participants
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm, B-20: A Workshop and Roundtable on Teaching and Performing South Asian Music and Dance
Carol Babiracki, Munda music and dance
Stefan Fiol, Music and dance in the Garhwali region
Denise Nuttall and Stefan Fiol, Hindustani raga and tala
Barbara Johnson, Indian Cinema Songs and Kerala Jewish Women’s Music
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm, B-20: Paper Session: The Notion of Asian Music
Jeremy Leong, “Refashioning Republican China’s “national music”: the fallacies in Wang Guangqi’s musical thoughts”
Priwan Nanongkham, “Music and Buddhism: Philosophical Perspectives and Practices in Thai Society”
Sija Tsai, “The Erhu in Toronto”
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm: SUPPER – conference participants at local restaurants
(6:00 pm: Gamelan ensembles will move their instruments into B-20)
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, B-20: Lecture-demonstration / Concert
Cornell Javanese gamelan, led by Chris Miller
Eastman Balinese gamelan, led by Ellen Koskoff
Sunday April 5
8:30 am, B-21: Continental BREAKFAST served to participants
9:00 am – 11:00 am, B-20: Paper Session: Fieldwork
Noah Dreiblatt, “The Modern House Show”
Julie Beauregard and Brent C. Talbot, “DJs and Dancers As Performers of Electronic Dance Music in a Night Club”
Carl Rahkonen, “Scandanavian Immigrant Fiddling in the United States”
Vivia Kieswetter, “’Lifting Up to the Throne of Grace’: the Phenomenology of the Church Organist’s Performance as Worship”
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