SARAH WEISS Roseggerkai 5/16 8010 Graz - Austria [email protected] [email protected]
EDUCATION
BA, Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester – with distinction (1984) MA, PhD, New York University – with distinction (1987, 1998) (Dean’s Award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2018-present Privatdozentin and Senior Research Scientist, Institut für Ethnomusikologie, KunstUniversitätGraz Stellvertreterin, Institut für Ethnomusikologie Stellvertreterin, Doktoratsschule für das Wissenschaftliche Doktoratsstudium 2014-2018 Associate Professor (Humanities and Anthropology) and Rector of Saga Residential College, Yale-NUS College, Singapore 2013-2014 Visiting Associate Professor in Humanities, Yale-NUS College, Singapore 2009-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Music, Yale University, Director, Gamelan Suprabanggo, Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2013) 2005-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Yale University; Director, Gamelan Suprabanggo http://www.yale.edu/seas/yalegamelan.htm 2004-2005 Visiting Professor, Department of Music, Harvard University 1999-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Music, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Director, Gamelan Nyai Saraswati http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan/ 1997-1999 Full-time, tenured Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Sydney 1994- 1996 Half-time Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Sydney 1993 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Music, University of Sydney 1992-1998 Founding director and primary teacher of the Sydney University Department of Music, Central Javanese ensemble, Gamelan Kyai Kebo Giro
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PUBLICATIONS – BOOKS AND MANUALS
(under consideration) Bloomsbury Handbook of Ethnomusicology edited by Sarah Weiss and Sarah Morelli (60 articles and contributors, 300,000 words).
(under contract) Is There Such a Thing as Singaporean Performance? edited by Sarah Weiss and Siavash Moazzami Vahid. Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology. Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria. (financial support from Yale-NUS College and a subvention grant from Landes Steiermark.)
2019 Ritual Soundings: Women Performers and World Religions. University of Illinois Press. (Awarded a subvention grant from the Lloyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.)
2007 Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde monograph series, vol. 237. Leiden: KITLV Press (CD-ROM included). (Indonesian novelist Tinuk Yampolsky is currently translating this book into Indonesian.)
2006 Instructor’s Guide. For Soundscapes, 2nd edition, (Shelemay). WW Norton.
PUBLICATIONS – PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
(under contract) Sonic Gendering of Ritual Spaces. Religious Sounds: Beyond the Global North: Sense, Media, and Power edited by Carola E. Lorea and Rosalind I.J. Hackett (Amsterdam University Press, Global Asia Series) with Talieh Attarzadeh.
(in press) On Comparative Aesthetics – A Discussion. Towards a Comparative Aesthetics of Music: Concepts, Criteria, Case Studies, edited by Gerd Grupe. Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology, vol. 27. Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, with Andy Hamilton.
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(in press) Rasa, Embodiment, and Aesthetics: A Case Study from Java. Towards a Comparative Aesthetics of Music: Concepts, Criteria, Case Studies, edited by Gerd Grupe. Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology, vol. 27. Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, 65-83.
2018 “Last time, in the Kampong, Chinese Wayang, Malay Bangsawan and Kroncong, all in one place:” Nostalgia, Memory, and History in Discourse on Singaporean Performance. Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music, edited by Ingrid Monson, Carol J. Oja and Richard K. Wolf. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
2017 Rangda and the Goddess Durga in Bali. Journal of Fieldwork in Religion 12/1: 50-77. https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/FIR/article/view/3 3750
2016 Transcending Boundaries: Javanese Wayang Kulit Without the Shadows. Resounding Transcendence: Transition in Music, Ritual, and Religion, edited by Philip Bohlman and Jeffers Englhardt. Oxford University Press, 43-63.
2015 Écouter le monde mais n'entendre que soi: Hybridité et perceptions de l'authenticité dans les musiques du monde. Translated into French by Dario Rudy. Volume!: French Journal of Popular Music Studies 10/1. https://volume.revues.org/3835 (This is a differently peer-reviewed piece related to the 2014 Ethnomusicology article listed below.)
2014 Listening to the World But Hearing Ourselves: Hybridity and Perceptions of Authenticity in World Music. Ethnomusicology 58/3: 506-25.
2013 Perspectives on Balinese Authenticities: Sanggar Çudamani’s Odalan Bali. Performing Arts in Postmodern Bali – Changing Interpretations, Founding Traditions, edited by Kendra Stepputat. Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology. Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria, 279-308.
2013 Performance in Southeast Asian History. Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History. London: Routledge, 300-309, with Tony Day.
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2011 Analyzing Javanese Grimingan: Seeking Form, Finding Process. Analytical Approaches to World Music 1/1
2008 Gender and Gender Redux: Rethinking Binaries and the Aesthetics of Old-Style Javanese Wayang. Woman & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 12: 22-39.
2008 Permeable Boundaries: Hybridity, Music, and the Reception of Robert Wilson’s I La Galigo. Ethnomusicology 52/2: 203- 238.
2007 Review Essay–Getting Beyond Java: New Studies in Indonesian Music. Ethnomusicology 51/1: 131-42.
2003 Kothong Nanging Kebak Empty Yet Full: Some Thoughts on Embodiment and Aesthetics in Central Javanese Performance. Asian Music 34: 21-49.
2002 Gender(ed) Aesthetics: Domains of Knowledge and “Inherent” Dichotomies in Central Javanese Wayang Accompaniment. Puppet Theatre in Contemporary Indonesia: New Approaches to Javanese Wayang, edited by Jan Mrazak. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 286-304.
1996 Rules or Rasa: Aesthetics and Gender in the Performance of Central Javanese Wayang. About Performance: Performances East/West. Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney Working Papers, 2: 91-100.
1995 Musical Revelations from Indonesia. Review essay on the first 6 CD's in the Smithsonian/Folkways Music in Indonesia Series (1991-94) in RIMA 29: 147-54.
1995 Translation with commentary of Tayuban by Nugroho Notosusanto (1959) in RIMA 29: 119-24.
1993 Gender and Gender: Gender Ideology and the Female Gender Players in Central Java. Rediscovering the Muses. Women's Musical Traditions, edited by Kimberly Marshall. Northeastern University Press, 21-48.
PUBLICATIONS - ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
(under review) Quantitative Approaches to the Analysis of Central Javanese Pathet: First Steps. Proceedings from the Inaugural Meeting of
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the ICTM SoMoS Study Group September 2020, online (Graz, Austria and Stockholm, Sweden).
2016 Race, Place, and Music: Problematizing Narratives of Nostalgia in Singapore. Presentation published in the Proceedings from ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia June 2014, Denpasar, Bali.
2007 Literature and Art: World Music (Overview). Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol. 5, 188-95.
1997 “Gamelan in Australia” in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, edited by Warren Bebbington. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 232-33.
PUBLICATIONS – FESTSCHRIFTS AND MISCELLANEOUS
2020 Negotiating Singaporean Identities: Observations from Study at an Academy of Indian Music and Dance Performance. Understanding Musics: Festschrift on the Occasion of Gerd Grupe’s 65th Birthday, edited by Malik Sharif and Kendra Stepputat. Düren: Shaker Verlag, 293-312.
PUBLICATIONS – REVIEWS
(in press) Review of Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context edited by Nathan Porath. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies – NIAS, University of Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2019. SOJOURN.
2009 Review of Gamelan of Central Java II: Ceremonial Music Felmay FY8042. Recorded and produced by John Noise Manis, Yantra Productions, 1996 and 2001. Notes by John Noise Manis; and Gamelan of Central Java IV: Spiritual Music Felmay FY8074. Recorded and produced by John Noise Manis, Yantra Productions, 2003. Notes by John Noise Manis with essay by Daniel Wolf. Asian Music 40/1: 157-61.
2007 Review of Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit, by Jan Mrázek. (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005) in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 163/1: 211-13.
2005 Review of Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles, edited by Ted Solís
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(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press) Ethnomusicology 49/3: 483-7.
2002 Review of Music and Gender, edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000) in Notes 58/3: 569-72.
1999 Review of Indonesian Music and Dance. Traditional Music and Its Interaction with the West. Essays by Jaap Kunst, edited by Ernst Heins, et al. (Royal Tropical Institute/Tropen Museum and University of Amsterdam, Ethnomusicology Centre ‘Jaap Kunst’, 1994) in Yearbook for the International Council of Traditional Music 31:130-31
1993 Review of Javanese Gamelan. Traditional Orchestra of Indonesia, 2nd edition by Jennifer Lindsay (Images of Asia Series, Oxford University Press, 1992) in Notes, 50: 624-25.
PUBLICATIONS - RECORDING NOTES ESSAYS
2003 Thoughts on the Female Style. CD notes essay for The Meditative Gender. Produced by John Noise Manis, Yantra Productions, Ivrea, Italy.
with Kay K. Shelemay, co-editor and co-producer 1985 PIZMON: Syrian-Jewish Religious and Social Song. Shanachie Records. (Chosen for American Folklife Center Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and HONORS
2020 Landes Steiermark funding for the conference entitled: ‘Rethinking Musical Mode’ to be hosted at KunstUniversitätGraz in November 2021. Project partner: Dr. Babak Nizat - €5170. 2020 Landes Steiermark funding for the publication of Is There Such a Thing as Singaporean Performance? edited by Sarah Weiss and Siavash Moazzami Vahid. Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology. Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria - €4130. 2019 ASEA-UNINET funding to bring three Institut für Ethnomuikologie members to USM – Penang, Malaysia and ISI- Yogyakarta, Indonesia to further interi-nstitutional project on translocality and performance. Project completed December 2019. 2019 ASEA-UNINET funding to bring two composer/performer/scholars from ISI-Yogyakarta to KUG – Dr.
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Singgih Sanjaya and I Nyoman Cau Arsana. Project period 13 October-9 November 2019. 2017 Subvention award from the Lloyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the publication of Ritual Soundings: Women Performers and World Religions (University of Illinois Press.) 2016 Yale-NUS College Dean of Faculty Travel Award for Sounding Royal YHU3241 fieldtrip to Central Java. 2014 ARI – Asia Research Institute at NUS Fellowship, 6 weeks 2014 Yale-NUS College Start-up Grant Proposal to research Singaporean identity, race and performance – $30,000 requested and received. 2012-14 Co-Recipient – with Mira Seo (YNC), Angela Duckworth (UPenn), and Liz Camp (Rutgers) – of Pilot Grant from Teagle Foundation for “Aligning Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in the Humanities.” Final report presented to Peter Struck (UPenn), convener of NFFLE, in May 2014 2010-12 Fellow, National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education, The Teagle Foundation 2010-11, 2012-13 Associate Fellow, Institute for Sacred Music, Yale 2009-10 Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale 2008 Yung-Wing Lecturer, Yale-PKU Program 2008 South Asian Studies Council Award, for travel to India 2008 A. Whitney Griswotld Faculty Research Fund Travel Grant, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, for travel to India 2007 MacMillan Center, Faculty Research Grant for project entitled, Performing Gender in Traditional Asian Theater, for travel to Japan to observe Kabuki performances (declined) 2006 A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Fund Travel Grant, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, for travel to Indonesia 2005 Travel Grant, Yale Southeast Asia Studies Council 2002-2003 UNC East and Southeast Asian Studies Committee Course Development Grant 2000 Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1998 Dean’s Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis in the Humanities, New York University 1992-1994 Visiting Scholar, Department of Music, University of Sydney 1992-1993 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University 1992 Seeger Prize Committee, Honorary Mention for Best Graduate Student Paper presented at Society for Ethnomusicology Conference 1991-1992 Asian Cultural Council Dissertation Research Grant 1989 FLAS Award for the study of Indonesian
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1988 Sidney and Celia Siegel Fellowship for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities 1987-1989 Graduate Student Forum of the Humanities Council 1984-1985 Langley Fellowship, New York University
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020 ‘Perfect Imperfection in the Aesthetics of Javanese Gamelan.’ Presented at the conference entitled: ‘Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music’ hosted by the Institute for Music Aesthetics and the Artistic Research Doctoral School of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, 21 November.
2020 ‘Quantitative Approaches to the Analysis of Central Javanese Pathet: First Steps.’ Presented at the First Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sciences (online three-day conference), hosted by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and KunstUniversität Graz, Austria, 29 September.
2019 ‘Sonic Hybridity and Kroncong in Armijn Pane’s Belenggu (1940): An Historical Case-Study of Musical Translocality.’ Presented at USM, Penang Malaysia, 13 December, and ISI- Yogyakarta 16 December – an ASEA-UNINET sponsored university exchange on Translocality and Performance Culture.
2019 ‘Is There Such a Thing as Singaporean Performance?: Observations from Study at an Academy of Carnatic Indian Performance.’ ICTM-Bangkok International Bi-annual Conference, 15 July.
2019 Summary Roundtable, chair and participant. Analytical Approaches to World Music Special Topics Symposium: Computational Approaches to World Music Analysis. Royal Birmingham Conservatory, Birmingham UK, 2-4 July.
2019 ‘Rasa, Embodiment and Aesthetics: A Case Study from Java.’ Ethnoaesthetics of Music: Concepts, Criteria, Case Studies Conference, KunstUniversitätGraz, 2-4 May.
2019 ‘On the Importance of Authenticity in the Reception of World Music.’ Habilitationsvortrag KunstUniversitätGraz, 17 January.
2018 ‘On Self-Censorship and Human Rights in Singapore.’ Guest lecture in a course on Human Rights and Music at KunstUniversitätGraz, 6 December.
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2018 ‘Is There Such a Thing as Singaporean Performance? Observations from Study at an Academy of Carnatic Indian Performance. Presented at the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 14 November.
2018 ‘There is No Such Thing as Singaporean Performance.’ Departments of Anthropology and Music, Vassar College, 11 November.
2018 ‘Is There Such a Thing as Singaporean Performance?’ Musikwissenschaftsseminar, Göttingen. Georg-August- Universität, Göttingen, 24 October.
2018 Women’s Performances in World Religions: On the Productive Tension Between Sociofugal and Sociopetal Practices. Keynote speaker at CHASE Encounters: Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts, Southeast England. Goldsmiths College, University of London, 28 June.
2018 ‘Community.’ Presented as faculty speaker at Yale-NUS 2018 Graduation Speech. Selected by graduating class, 28 May.
2018 ‘Oh Death: Sounding Death, Dying, (Aging), and Loss. Presented at Purposeful Aging //Meaningful Endings: Art, Science and Innovation Symposium. Yale-NUS College, Singapore, 11 April.
2018 ‘Why Asia?’ Keynote address for annual symposium of the Raffles Junior College, Asia Programme. Raffles Junior College, Singapore, 5 April.
2017 “Is Singapore a Concrete Jungle and Cultural Void?” Presented at Tropics of the Imagination Conference, James Cook University, Singapore, 7 September.
2017 “Performing Singapore: Music, Race, and Identity in a Southeast Asian Entrepôt.” Presented at Lehigh University, 3 April.
2017 “Transformation in the Relationships Between Identity and Cultural Performance in Singapore.” Presented at the Yale Southeast Asia Studies Lunchtime Brown Bag Series, 22 February.
2016 “On the Music of Wayang Kontemporar” Short talk at the launch of Miguel Varela’s Contemporary Wayang Archive hosted by ELL - English Language and Literature at NUS. 15
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October.
2016 “Let’s Talk About Art – You Know What You Don’t Like….Right?” Presented during the Artober Festival, Yale-NUS College, 10 October.
2016 Merenungkan Perbedaan Antara Melestarikan dan Mempertahankan Seni/Contemplating the Differences Between Preserving and Sustaining the Performing Arts. Keynote for Symposium on Creativity and Art Studies, ISI- Yogyakarta, 24 May.
2016 “Last time in the Kampong for University of Martin Luther, Halle-Wittenberg, 20 May (see below for full title).
2016 “Listening to Southeast Asia.” Presented on board the Belmond Orcaella, first lecture in a series of three for the Association of Yale Alumni VIP Tour of Myanmar, as faculty expert, 6 March.
2016 “Yama Zatdaw – Ramayana in Myanmar.” Presented on board the Belmond Orcaella, second lecture in a series of three for the Association of Yale Alumni VIP Tour of Myanmar, as faculty expert, 7 March.
2016 “A Burmese Cabinet of Curiosities.” Presented on board the Belmond Orcaella, third lecture in a series of three for the Association of Yale Alumni VIP Tour of Myanmar, as faculty expert, 8 March.
2015 “Last time in the Kampong” for BEAM – Berlin Ethnomusicology and Anthropology Group, 26 November (see below for full title).
2015 Analysis and Musical Performance: Beyond the WAM/non- WAM Binary. Keynote address for: Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft at KUG in Graz, Austria, 20 November.
2015 “Some Musings on Embodied Archives.” For a round table entitled, “The Politics of the Archive” presented at the Royal Musicological Society-sponsored study day entitled: Taking British Music(s) Abroad: Soundscapes of the Imperial Message. King’s College London, 16 June.
2015 Memikirkan Kembali Batas Riset Musik/Rethinking the Boundaries of Music Research. Institut Seni Indonesia – Yogyakarta, Dies Natalis 31 Invited Speaker, 1 June. http://isi.ac.id/seminar-sehari-dies-natalis-31/
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2014 “Last time, in the Kampong – Chinese Wayang, Bangsawan, and Kroncong all one place:” Examining Nostalgia, Memory and History in the Representation of Singaporean Performance. “Out of Bounds” Conference for Kay Shelemay, 24 October 2014.
Also presented on: 26 November 2015 at BEAM – Berlin Ethnomusicology and Anthropology of Music Group and 20 May 2016 at Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg
2014 “Race, Place, and Music: Problematizing Nostalgia in Singapore.” ISI Bali – Peforming Arts of Southeast Asia (PASEA) Study Group of the ICTM Biannual Conference, Denpasar, 16 June.
2014 “Kroncong, Gamelan, and Beethoven: Music as Metaphor in Shackles (Belenggu, 1938-40) - a Nationalist Indonesian Novel by Armijn Pane.” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 12 June
2014 “Culture Disappeared: Preliminary Thoughts on Performance and Nostalgia in Singapore: A Cultural Musicological Case Study.” University of Amsterdam, 25 January
2013 Kroncong, Gamelan, and Beethoven: Music at Metaphor in Shackles (Belenggu, 1938-40) – A Nationalist Indonesian Novel by Armijm Pane. Presented at the annual conference of the Musicological Society of Australia – Brisbane, 15 November.
2013 “Kroncong, Beethoven, and Levinas: Interpreting Armijn Pane’s Indonesian Novel Belenggu (1940).” EuroSEAS Conference, Lisbon – 3 July
2013 “Public/Private, Elite/Popular: Javanese Wayang and Binaries That Don’t Quite Work.” Indonesian Performing Arts and Public Life Symposium, Wesleyan University Music and Public Life Initiative – 26 April.
2013 “Permeable Boundaries, Musical Hybridity, and Cultural Interaction.” University of Amsterdam – 10 April.
2012 “Creating Authenticity: Sanggar Çudamani’s Odalan Bali” presented at the Institut für Musikethnologie, Kunst Universität, Graz – 13 June.
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2012 “Expectations and Authenticities: Sanggar Çudamani’s Odalan Bali.” Keynote address for the Northeast Conference on Indonesian Studies, Yale Southeast Asia Studies Council, Yale University –18 February
2011 “Kroncong and Dangdut: Popular Urban Music and Politics in 20th Century Indonesia” presented at the University of Tampere, Finland – 23 November.
2011 “Contextualizing a Javanese Musical Process: Articulating Form in Grimingan – Theory ‘Speaking Through’ Analysis” presented at the University of Helsinki, Finland – 22 November.
2011 “Gendering Discourse on Central Javanese Wayang Kulit – Theory ‘Speaking Through’ Analysis” presented at the University of Helsinki, Finland – 21 November.
2011 “Electronic Publications: Pondering the Future” presented as part of the Student Concerns Round Table entitled Ethnomusicology and the Changing Job Market: A Dialogue for Young Scholars. Society for Ethnomusicology National Conference, Philadelphia – 18 November.
2011 “Malleable Authenticities: Sanggar Çudamani’s International Productions” presented at International Council for Traditional Music World Conference 2011, St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada – 15 July.
2011 “Negotiating Authenticities: Sanggar Çudamani’s International Productions” presented at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Department of South East Asian Studies – 22 March.
2011 “Listening to the World But Hearing Ourselves: On the Value Musical Authenticity as an Aesthetic Guide” presented as the Calhoun College Fellows’ Dinner Talk – 7 February.
2010 “Malleable Authenticity and Hybrid Cultural Productions: Negotiating Expectation and Innovation in Indonesia” presented at the Conference on Issues and Trends in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan – Center for Southeast Asian Studies 50th Anniversary – 22 October
2010 “Listening to the World But Hearing Ourselves: Some Thoughts on Musical Authenticity” presented at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale – 31 March
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2010 “On Grimingan: Revealing Form Through the Analysis of Process” presented at First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music. UMass, Amherst – 21 February
2009 “Singing Community: A Cappella at Yale in the 2000s” presented at Whiffenpoofs Centennial Celebration Seminar, Yale University – 2 October.
2009 “Encountering Hybridity and the Ethnography of Listening” presented at Brown University – 1 April.
2009 “Javanese Rasa and the Aesthetics of Performance” presented at the International Festival of Sacred Arts, Delhi, India – 22 February.
2008 “Sounding Authentic: Listening to Globalization.” Presented as the Yung Wing University Lecture at the Beida Campus, Peking University, Beijing, China in conjunction with the Yale-PKU Program – 18 April.
2008 “Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception” presented at the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University – 8 April.
2008 “The Culture of Nature, The Nature of Change” Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series, American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Panel moderated by Julie Burstein WNYC, 3 April.
2008 “Permeable Boundaries: Listening Across Cultures” presented at Boston University – 13 February.
2007 “Musical Traditions Betwixt and Between: Debating Authenticity, Modernity and Hybridity on the Chinese and Tibetan Stages,” chair and discussant. Association of Asian Studies, Boston, 24 March.
2007 “Translation without Words: Interculturalism, Music, and the Reception of Robert Wilson’s I La Galigo” presented at School of Music, Arizona State University – Tempe, 2 March
2007 “On Aesthetics and the Gendering of Performance: Some Thoughts on Javanese Wayang” present at Arizona State University – Tempe, 1 March.
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2006 “Translation without Words: On Reception and Robert Wilson’s I La Galigo” presented at Society for Ethnomusicology, national meeting in Honolulu, 18 November.
2006 “Between Form and Content: Making Javanese Wayang Popular” presented at Sacred Music in Transition Symposium, Yale Institute for Sacred Music, 20 October.
2006 “Portuguese World Music,” chair and discussant. Conference on Luso-African Forms and their Diaspora at Yale University, 25 March.
2005 “Gender in Indonesian Contemporary Performance,” chair and discussant. Conference on Arts, Culture, and Political and Social Change Since Suharto, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia, 18 December.
2005 “Living Hybridity – Discussion of Gurinder Chadha’s film I’m British But…. “with the Yale Students of Mixed Heritage and Culture Group, 6 October.
2005 “National Aesthetics and Institutions in Thailand and Indonesia” presented at Harvard University, 13 April.
2005 “Thai and Indonesian Music Institutions and the Development of Institutional Aesthetics” Wesleyan University, 6 April.
2005 “Reinventing Musical Hierarchies in Java and Thailand” presented at Yale University, 24 March.
2005 “Meeting Nyai Lara Kidul, Goddess of the South Sea: Aesthetics and Gender in Javanese Performance” presented at Currier House Senior Common Room, Harvard University, 24 February.
2004 “Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics and Gender in Old-Style Wayang” presented at Society for Ethnomusicology, national meeting in Tucson, 6 November.
2003 “Jazz in Asia” discussant. Colloquium hosted by the Triangle East Asia Consortium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1 November.
2003 “Pathways from the PhD: On the Job Market in Academia – CVs, Letters of Introduction, Gender, and Pheromones” presented at Society for Ethnomusicology, national meeting in Miami, 4 October.
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2003 “Organizing” the Tradition – A Roundtable On Cultural Brokerage and Cultural Brokers with Robert Cantwell, William Ferris, Wayne Martin, George Holt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 3 April.
2003 “Global Reverberations: Hearing Cultural Interaction in Music” presented at Bates College, 13 February.
2002 “Gender, Aesthetics, and Tradition,” chair and discussant. Society for Ethnomusicology, national meeting in Estes Park, 26 October.
2002 “Music and Nations: Cultures in Crisis,” discussant, Society for Ethnomusicology, national meeting in Estes Park, 25 October.
2002 “The Enigma of Sameness: The Search for Form in Grimingan for Old-Style Javanese Wayang” presented at New England Gamelan Conference, Wesleyan University, 20 April.
2001 “Kothong Nanging Kebak – Empty Yet Full: Some Thoughts on Embodiment in Javanese Performance” presented at Cornell University, 18 November.
2001 “Gender, Mode, and Knowledge in Central Java” presented at National Institute for Education/National University of Singapore, 23 May.
2001 “Aesthetics and Gender in Central Javanese Wayang” presented at Emory University, 5 February.
1999 “Worlds and Confusions Apart? Kroncong and World Music Reconsidered” presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology, national meeting, University of Texas, Austin, 21 November.
1998 “Alam and Alus: Insider/Outsider Interpretations in Post- Colonial Central Java,” presented at University of Sydney, Department of Music Seminar Series, 19 October.
1998 “Alam and Alus: Colonial Reconstructions and Central Javanese Wayang,” presented at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 26 January, and University of Pennsylvania, 28 January. with Tony Day 1995 “Moments of Arrival: Improvisation in Central Javanese Wayang Kulit and the Music of Miles Davis,” for the Centre for Performance Studies Seminar Series, University of Sydney, 31 August.
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1995 “Rules or Rasa: Aesthetics and Gender in the Performance of Central Javanese Wayang” at the 1995 conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, DC, 7 April.
1994 “The Web in which the Story is Suspended: a Reassessment of Musical Accompaniment for Wayang Kulit,” at the Round Table on Wayang, Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney, 13 August.
with Tony Day 1993 “The Female Performer in Java: Mythical Construction, Literary Representation, and Contemporary Examples,” at the 4th Women in Asia Conference, Monash University, Melbourne - Australia, 2 October.
1992 “Gender and Gender: Female Style Genderan and Central Javanese Wayang,” presented at American Musicological Society, national meeting, Pittsburgh, 7 November.
1992 “Gender and Gender: Female Style Genderan and Central Javanese Wayang. The Ideological Construction of Gender,” presented at Society for Ethnomusicology, national meeting, Seattle, 23 October. Awarded Seeger Prize Committee Honorary Mention.
1992 “Gender and Gender: ‘Female’ and ‘Male’ Aspects of Style in the Performance of Central Javanese Wayang,” presented at Musicological Society of Australia Conference, 8 October.
with Tony Day 1992 “Gender Construction and Performance in Java: Literary Representations of Ronggeng, her Social Identity and Womanhood from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present,” presented at School of Asian Studies, University of Sydney, 1 June.
1991 “The Role of the Female Gender Player in Central Javanese Wayang: Preliminary Analysis,” presented at Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney, 25 June.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES – MEMBERSHIP, SERVICE, AND ACTIVITIES
2021 Member, Board Nominating Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology. 2020 Program Committee for AAWM Bi-Annual Conference in Paris, 2020.
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2019, 2020 Chair, Inaugural Ruth M. Stone Prize for Best First Monograph written in the discipline of ethnomusicology. Awarded by the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2018 Member of the Marty Hatch Award Committee, Society for Asian Music 2017, 2018 (Chair) Member and Chiar, Bruno Nettl Award, presented for research in historical ethnomusicology by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2015-2017 Member-at-Large (Groups), Governing Board of the Society for Ethnomusicology 2015 Program Committee, Southeast Asia Chapter of the Royal Musicological Association Conference, “West Meets East: Intercultural Transfers in Music,” Raffles Institution, 4 April 2013 Board Nominating Committee of Society for Ethnomusicology, Chair 2010-present Member, British Forum for Ethnomusicology 2009 Local Arrangements Co-Chair, Northeast Regional Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology 2008-2011 Society for Ethnomusicology Council (2008-11) 2007 Program Committee for Society of Ethnomusicology national meeting in October 2008 2007-2013 Member, Indonesian and East Timor Studies Committee of the Association for Asian Studies 2004 Program committee, Southeast and Caribbean Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2002-present Member, Society for Asian Music 1997-1998 Chair, Sydney Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia 1995-present Member, Association for Asian Studies 1994-present Member, Musicological Society of Australia 1985-present Member, Society for Ethnomusicology 1985-2013 Member, American Musicological Association
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2015-2018 Member, editorial board, Music Theory Online 2013-present Member, Editorial Advisory Board, TDE – An Electronic Journal for Translingual Discourse in Ethnomusicology, Kunst Universität – Graz, Austria 2011-2016 Member, Editorial Board, South East Asia Research, published by the Department of Languages and Cultures of South East Asia, SOAS University of London
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2006-2018 Editor, Audio and Visual Recordings Reviews, Member of the Board, Asian Music, Journal of the Society for Asian Music, first published volume 39/2, 2008 1997-2003 Member, Editorial Board, RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs
ADVISORY AND BOARD POSITIONS
2012-2016 Musiké Project, Spanda Foundation (Den Hague), Advisory Board Member 2012-14 Committee on the Future of Southeast Asian Studies, Luce Foundation - Asia Program, Yale Representative 2011-2014 American Institute for Indonesian Studies in Jakarta, Yale- Southeast Asia Studies Council representative 2010-2019 Zentrum für Genderforschung, Kunst Universität – Graz (KUG) Advisory Board Member 2007-2013 Faculty Advisor, Yale Raga Society 2007-2013 Faculty Advisor, Yale World Music Group 2001-2004 Working Group in Southeast Asian Studies, UNC- Chapel Hill, member 1999-2004 Advisory Committee for Curriculum in Folklore, UNC - Chapel Hill, member 1995-1998 University of Western Sydney - Nepean, Department of Music Academic Advisory Board, member 1995 University of Sydney, Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific ARC project to establish list of institutional residencies available to Australian artists in Asia, consultant
LECTURE-DEMONSTRATIONS AND MASTER CLASSES
2011 Public critique of student essays and presentations, University of Helsinki, Finland 21-22 November.
2011 Master classes in gamelan performance at the Indonesian Embassy in Helsinki, Finland 21-22 November.
2007 Master classes in gamelan performance and Javanese singing, School of Music, Arizona State University – Tempe, 28 February, 1-2 March.
2000 “Gender Sound and Style in Central Java” for Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Music Collection Lecture Series, 24 May.
with Widiyanto S. Putra 2000 “Traditional Javanese Shadow Theatre and Contemporary Culture” for SASASAAS Faculty Training Seminar: State of the Country Series: Indonesia, 1 April.
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COURSES TAUGHT
-Music and Ritual -Gendering Performance, Performing Gender -Musical Modes in Theory and Performance -Konversatorium/Kolloquium for Masters/PhD writers -Postcoloniality, Politics, and Performance -Musical Love and Longing -21st Century Research on Southeast Asian Performance -Music instruments of the world -Introduction to the World’s Musics -Permeable Boundaries: Musical and Cultural Encounter -Sounding Royal: Power and Performance in Javanese Courts -Chopin Nocturnes Through Performance and Analysis -Literature and Humanities II (Common Curriculum for YNC) -World Music Theory and Practice -Central Javanese Gamelan: Performance, Theory, Aesthetics -Witnessing Sound: Ethnomusicology Through Ethnography -Singing Community: Ethnography at Home -Music and Empire: Theorizing Musical Postcoloniality -Shadows, Gongs and Punks: Music Cultures of Southeast Asia -Topics in World Music
ETHNOGRAPHY CLASS PROJECT WEBSITE
2012 First Encounters: Yale A Cappella Rush (9600 words): http://yaleacappellaproject.wordpress.com/essays/introductio n-to-yale-a-cappella-rush-sarah-weiss/. Home page for the project – Singing Community: Ethnography and the Yale A Cappella World—can be found at: http://yaleacappellaproject.wordpress.com/
RESIDENCIES
2012 Two-week residency at the Institut für Ethnomusikologie and the Zentrum für Genderforschung, KunstUniversitätGraz, 12-16 March and 10-15 June where I conducted 5 seminar sessions on my gender and aesthetics work in Java and 5 seminars on transgender and LGBTQ performance in Indonesia. 2011 Residency at University of Helsinki, Finland, 20-23 November where I presented two talks, advised students, work-shopped several dissertation chapters with PhD students. 2007 Residency at Arizona State University, School of Music and Southeast Asian Studies Program, 27 February-2 March.
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FIELD RESEARCH
2019-present Translocality and Performance in Southeast Asia, joint project with Kendra Stepputat (KUG) and Tan Sooi Beng (USM) 2013-present Research on nostalgia, hybridity, race, ethnicity, and performance in Singapore 2013 Research with Javanese pasindhen and aesthetics (with Mohammad Furqon) 2007-2013 Graduate seminar project working with members of the Yale a cappella community 2007 Research Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia, 3 weeks 2006 Research in Java, Bali and South Sulawesi, 6 weeks 2005 Travel to Jakarta, to interview members of Robert Wilson/Rhoda Grauer cast of I La Galigo and audience members at the premiere of the work in Indonesia, 10-15 December Travel to Sydney, to interview Anne Boyd and research Australian art music aesthetics, 28-31 December. 2001 Three-week research trip to Singapore exploring hybridization in the world of Singaporean art music aesthetics 1997 Two-week research trip to Central Java, observations at the Yogyakarta gamelan festival 1994 Three-week research trip to Bali and Central Java 1993 Six-week trip to Surakarta to study drumming 1990-1991 Fourteen-month doctoral research trip to Central Java 1987 Preliminary field trip to Central Java 1984-6 Urban field research with Kay K. Shelemay in the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York
PERFORMANCE – GAMELAN (TRADITIONAL AND OTHERWISE)
2018-present Gamelan Rara Saraswati, KunstUniversitätGraz, Artistic Director 2013-2018 Gamelan Singa Nglaras, NUS Southeast Asian Studies 2006-2013 Gamelan Suprabanggo, Yale University, Founding Director www.yale.edu/seas/yalegamelan.htm 2006-present Gamelan Kusuma Laras, New York City, many performances 2006 summer Toured US East coast with visiting Javanese dhalang Ki Purbo Asmoro 2004-present Boston Village Gamelan, Tufts University, many performances 2002 Cornell University Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, Ithaca New York, 7 May 2002 New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan Performance, New England Gamelan Conference, Wesleyan University, guest artist, 21 April
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2002 Inaugural performance of Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, UNC Department of Music, 18 January 2001-2005 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Javanese Gamelan, director, multiple performances; reviews, programs, and recordings at: http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan/ 2001, 2000 Premiere and second performance of Kyai Agung Mangir by Steve Everett at Emory University, 3 March 2000 and 27 January 2001, piano, gender, voice 1992-1998 Gamelan Kyai Kebo Giro, University of Sydney, director 1993 (summer) Balinese Gong Kebyar Workshop, Australian Museum, participant 1992-1993 Sydney University Gamelan Society, artistic director 1991 Boston Village Gamelan – gender, pesinden 1989-1990 University of Hawaii Gamelan – gender, gambang 1988, 1989 New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan performances of wayang (shadow puppet performances) 1985-1989 New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan – gender, bonang, pesinden, gambang
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE – OTHER
2020-present Soprano, CANDY A Cappella Quartet, Graz Austria 2016-2018 Study of Carnatic classical music at Bhaskars Arts Academy, as part of my research on identity and performance in Singapore 2015-2018 Member, women’s medieval vocal trio – La Voix Medievale, debut performance, 21-23 April, Esplanade, Singapore. 2013-2016 Co-director, The Lecture Notes (Yale-NUS faculty/staff a cappella group) 2006 Yale Collegium 1989-1990 University of Hawaii Asian Theatre Department production of a Beijing opera, The Jade Hall of Spring (Yu Tangchun) 1989-1990 Afro-Caribbean Drumming Ensemble, University of Hawaii 1985-1989 New York University Collegium directed by Stanley Boorman 1982-1984 University of Rochester, Vocal Point, a women’s close harmony group; director, 1984 1980-1984 University of Rochester Chorale Society and Glee Club directed by David Schildkret and Chet Alwes
LANGUAGE STUDY
2018 to present Study of German, (B2.2) 2014 Independent study of Mandarin 2004-2005 Independent study of Dutch 1994 Independent study of Vietnamese 1990-1991 Independent study of Javanese 1989 Intensive Indonesian Language Course, University of Hawaii, (SEASSI)
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OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
1992-1994 Researcher and materials collector for DEET Teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language Project, University of Sydney and University of New South Wales 1991 Editing assistant for new edition of Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program Language Text Book: Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction by John Wolff et al. 1989-1990 Bishop Museum, Hawaii, Collections Technician - Anthropology Department, participated in the taking of a new inventory 1988-1989 Asia Society - New York, Contemporary Affairs Department staff, publications and special events 1986-1988 American Museum of Natural History, New York, Membership Department Program Assistant, special events facilitator
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