SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

NIAGARA CHAPTER

ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 26-27, 2010

 

Kent State University

School of Music

 

Friday, March 26

 

4:30     Keynote Lecture        E-103

 

            "Re-Entry and Full Circle: Fieldwork After Sixty,"

Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music

 

5:30     Dinner on your own at local restaurants

 

8:00     Concert of Asian Music and Dance (C. F. W. Ludwig Recital Hall)

 

            China:  Music for Er Hu

            Ming-Yen Lee, Kent State University

 

            Mon Dancers of Akron

 

Saturday, March 27

 

8:00     Registration, Reunions            Hallway near D-105/106

 

8:30     Opening of the Conference    D-105

            Kazadi wa Mukuna, Kent State University

 

8:35     Welcome

            Denise A. Seachrist, Interim Director, School of Music, Kent State University

 

8:45 - 10:15    D-105  Session 1: Music from the Past (Chair: Terry Miller)

 

Working with Emily's Music Book

Jim Kimball, SUNY Geneseo

 

Echoes of Africa in New Orleans: Did Louis Moreau Gottschalk Do More Than Imagine How Bamboula Sounded?

Amy Unruh, Kent State University/ Independent Scholar

 

10:15   Refreshment Break

 

10:30 - 12:00  D-105  Session 2 A: Jazz and Native American Music (Chair: Milagros Quesada)

 

Colonization's Chain: Tracing the Links that Bond Communities Through the Delaware Skin Dance

Susan M. Taffe, Cornell University

 

Old Ghosts and Free Spirits: The Synthesis of Jazz and Native American Music

Kyle Brenders, York University

 

Saving Entertainment: Maintaining a Niche for Early Jazz Styles in a Modern Jazz Scene

Kimberly Hannon, Eastman School of Music

 

10:30 - 12:00  D-106  Session 2 B: Continuity and Change of Musical Traditions: A Case Study of Ghanaian, Chinese and Indian Music in the Diaspora (Chair: Ellen Koskoff)

 

Panelists: Ming-Yen Lee, Mitchell Greco, Noraliz Ruiz, Praphai Boonsermsuwong, Kent State University

 

12:00 - 1:30    Lunch and Business Meeting           (Location TBA)

 

1:30 - 3:30      D-105  Session 3 A:  Music in the Present (Chair: Andrew Shahriari)

 

Impoverishment, Immigration, and Assimilation: Contextualizing the Origins of Hip Hop

Dennis Cole, Kent State University

 

Girl Guitars: Negotiating Gender Through Design, Mediation, and Us

Amanda Crespo, Carleton University

 

Balancing Revolution and Capitalism: Lesbian Community Building and Goldenrod Music

Lauron Kehrer, Eastman School of Music

 

The Voices on the Street

Ty-Juana Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles

 

1:30 - 3:30      Band Rehearsal Room and D-106   Session 3 B: Performance and Pedagogy (Chair: Denise Seachrist)

 

(Performance for one hour)  Ohio Choro Club, roda de choro (In band rehearsal room)

Eric Murray, director, Kent State University

 

"Ennangaenyumya" Playing Techniques of the ennanga of Buganda, Uganda (In D-106)

Rachel Muehrer, York University

 

A Record of Survival: Pedagogy and Transmission of a Musical-Spiritual Tradition

Jeffrey W. Cupchik, York University/Independent Scholar

 

3:30     Refreshment Break

 

3:45 - 5:15      D-105  Session 4 A: Aesthetics and Performance Practice in African and African-derived Music (Panel of Papers) (Chair: Kazadi wa Mukuna)

           

Praise Singing and Patronage in Congolese Popular Music

Anicet Mundundu, Jambo Lugamba

 

Modes of Cultural Representation: Koo Nimo's Sung-Tales as Rhetoric, Innuendo and Double-Entendre

Eric Beeko, University of Pittsburgh

 

Experience and its Expression in Jazz Drumming Performance: An Example from Pittsburgh

Kenan Foley, Carlow University

 

3:45 - 5:15      D-106  Session 4 B:  Organology (Chair: Jim Kimball)

 

Virtual Mridangam: Internet Training for the Modern Mridangam Student

Rohan Krishnamurthy, Eastman School of Music

 

Bring World Music to the Community: Creating a Japanese Taiko Ensemble at the University of Pittsburgh

Benjamin Pachter, University of Pittsburgh

 

The Knight System for Musical Instrument Classification: An Answer to Hornbostel-Sachs

Roderic Knight, Oberlin College

 

5:15                 Meeting Concludes, informal meetings over dinner

 

7:30 or so        Informal Get-together at Miller residence for remaining stragglers

 


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