SEM Newsletter Published by the Society for Ethnomusicology Volume 39 Number 4 September 2005 SEM Soundbyte 2005 Charles Seeger By Timothy Rice, SEM President Lecturer: Anthony Seeger What are we thinking? Just a few days ago, I received the By Marina Roseman, Queen’s Univer- preliminary program for our 50th anni- sity, Belfast versary annual meeting in Atlanta (No- Anthony Seeger, Professor of Ethno- vember 16-20, 2005). Printed in this musicology at the University of Califor- newsletter and available online at our nia at Los Angeles and Director Emeri- website, it will take some time to study tus of Smithsonian Folkways Record- and to plan your attack on what the ings, will present the Charles Seeger Program Committee chairs Bruno Nettl Lecture at the 50th annual Society for and Judith McCulloh, and Local Ar- Ethnomusicology meeting in Atlanta. rangements chair Tong Soon Lee, cor- Known for his fieldwork and publica- rectly call “an embarrassment of riches.” tions on the Suyá Indians of northern I am sure it will be maddening to Mato Grosso, Brazil, Professor Seeger choose from the dozen (or more) simul- was also instrumental in absorbing the taneous sessions, but there should at Ethnic Folkways recording label into least be something for everyone. To Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, give you some sense of our growth, in which became, under his directorship, 1979, I chaired the program committee one of the premier labels for ethnomu- sicological recordings. His Seeger Lec- Continued on page 3 ture, “Lost Lineages and Neglected Peers: Photo by Roger Bourland Ethnomusicologists Outside Academia,” that Anthony Seeger gives the lecture draws on a sensitivity toward applied named after his grandfather Charles, ethnomusicology honed both through whose work, like that of his grandson Inside his involvement with an Amazonian Anthony, has had far-reaching effects 1 SEM Soundbyte tribe fighting for its land, resources, and within and outside of academia. Charles 1 2005 Charles Seeger Lecturer: cultural heritage, and with issues of Seeger gave SEM’s first Distinguished Anthony Seeger intellectual property rights in his efforts Lecture in 1976, which was renamed 1 SEM 50 in Atlanta, Georgia on behalf of artists from around the the Charles Seeger Lecture in 1983, 4 Announcements world represented on the Smithsonian following his death in 1979. Like his 6 People & Places Folkways Recordings label. grandfather before him, who served as 6 Ali Jihad Racy Wins Book Award As we review our history and exam- President of SEM in 1960 and 1961, 7 Robert Garfias Honored with ine our lineages during this year’s cel- Anthony Seeger served as President of the Order of the Rising Sun ebration of the 50th anniversary of the SEM from 1991-1993, as President of the 8 SEM Snapshot: A Letter from founding of SEM, it is particularly fitting International Council for Traditional 1973 by Judith Becker 10 Report on Primer Congreso Continued on page 5 Internacional de Música, Iden- The Stage is Set tidad y Cultura en el Caribe we are ready for the Society for 11 Call for Papers & Ethnomusicology’s 50th anniver- 12 Obituaries sary meeting! The SEM 50 Local Ar- • Gerard Béhague (1937-2005) rangements Committee eagerly awaits • Janice Kleeman (1949-2005) your arrival in Atlanta, Georgia, as we 14 SEM Meetings: A Few Reflec- continue to put finishing touches to our tions by R. Anderson Sutton annual meeting. Come and learn from 14 Position Announcement: SEM one another through the rich program Newsletter Editor(s) put together by the Program Commit- 16 SEM 50 Conference Program 38 Conferences Calendar Continued on page 39 2 SEM Newsletter

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SEM Soundbyte Of course the Society casts its net at this meeting. The other major theme much more widely. Most of the other around which we organize our work is Continued from page 1 regions (Europe, the Near East, South associated loosely around themes of Asia, East Asia, Africa) are represented identity, including 84 papers and 1 when we expanded, controversially at by between four and six panels. South- workshop. These include 32 papers on the time, from a typical program with east Asia has only two panels, a bit identity in general, 35 papers on gen- three simultaneous sessions to one with surprising given its historical centrality der/women/masculinity/feminism/sex, six. in the development of ethnomusicology 14 papers on nationalism/national iden- Our fall annual meeting, our spring in the U.S., Western Europe, and Aus- tity, and 3 papers on ethnicity. Obvi- chapter meetings, and our journal, Eth- tralia. On the other hand, the Pacific, ously, studying the role of music in nomusicology, provide the Society’s which historically has been underrep- establishing and expressing the multi- main raison d’être: the publication, pre- resented in North American scholarship layered and shifting nature of identity in sentation, and exchange of scholarship on music, breaks out at this conference the modern world continues to provide in the field of ethnomusicology. In with three sessions. On Sunday, the us with a rich vein to mine intellectu- addition, our newsletter, listserv, and Program Committee forces us beyond ally. website enable a less formal exchange the limits implied by these area studies, After these two topic areas there is a of information, news, and opinions. and we will be treated to two panels on major fall off in numbers of papers to a Examined diachronically or synchroni- “the world,” one on global rock, and group of three topics with 30 or more cally, these forums tell us a great deal one on cyberspace. papers in each. The next most popular about the history and current state of As for the themes and issues galva- topic, with 38 papers, centers around our field and about the kinds of issues, nizing us in 2005, I looked less at the space, place, and geography, 34 papers themes, methods, and theories that con- panel titles and more at dealing with cultural politics and repre- cern or have concerned us. In that the individual pa- sentation, and 31 papers on move- spirit, I took a quick look at the 2005 pers, looking for ment and performance. Scat- annual meeting program for one such “keywords” in tered among these topics are snapshot of our field. What are we the title; well-worn themes such as thinking about in 2005, on the occasion where I dance, gesture, urbanism, of our 50th anniversary? couldn’t and politics along with The first thing I noticed is a pretty newer ones such as rep- even split between panels dedicated to nations and geographical re- resentation, transnation- gions of the world, and those alism, globalization, di- concerned with themes and is- aspora, and performativ- sues that help us organize our ity. thinking about music nearly ev- Four familiar topics are erywhere in the world. It seems to me covered by 20 or more pa- that we have moved back and forth pers: religion and ritual (26 between these two poles over the years, papers and a workshop); com- and the present balance illustrates a position, creativity, improvisation, trend I have noticed in the last few and musical analysis (25 papers); years. Of these regions, the United find them, I tried to teaching, learning, transmission, and States and Canada, and the genres and infer what sort of organizing idea might music education (23 papers and 2 round- cultural groups living there occupy 21 underlay the title. Using this technique, tables); and technology, commodity, panels, by far the most. These include I was able to categorize virtually all the ownership, and mass media (21 papers geographical areas (the southern U.S., papers and roundtables around a rela- and 2 roundtables). Among these four, appropriately, comes up at least four tively short list of 15 major topics, pre- the last one probably represents the times), social groups (African Ameri- sented here in their order of frequency newest challenge to our work and to cans prominently, but also First Nations as I counted them (some papers fall into those with whom we work. cultures and native North America), and more than one category). Appropri- In the teens I also found four topics. genres (jazz, spirituals, marching bands). ately for this meeting, we will be spend- There are 19 papers on history and Latin America and the Caribbean is the ing the most time discussing the nature change/tradition and modernity and 19 next most popular region with eight and history of ethnomusicology; 58 on what I call musical experience. The sessions, including ones on Brazil and papers and 10 roundtable/workshops latter theme includes papers on aesthet- Mexico. These 29 panels make up are devoted to this topic. One of the ics and meaning, memory and nostal- about half of the geographically based attractive features of ethnomusicology, gia, emotion and sentiment, and la- sessions in the program. This predomi- at least for me, is the self-reflexivity of ments. In this familiar bunch, memory/ nance provides one image of us as the the field, the nearly continuous exami- nostalgia seems a bit like the new kid on American (or Pan-American) Society for nation of what, how, and why we do the block, and I am guessing that we Ethnomusicology. what we do. We properly indulge in it will see more emphasis on this topic in Continued on page 40 4 SEM Newsletter

Announcements pmssem/prize.html. Please direct other Smithsonian Global Sound: A questions to Tracey Laird (email) Virtual Encyclopedia of the World’s The Lise Waxer Prize [email protected]. Musical Traditions from the Smith- The Popular Music Section of the sonian Center for Folklife and Society for Ethnomusicology will again American Research Institute in Cultural Heritage award the Lise Waxer Prize for the most Turkey Fellowships The Smithsonian Center for Folklife distinguished student paper in the eth- The American Research Institute in and Cultural Heritage is proud to an- nomusicology of popular music pre- Turkey (ARIT) is a non-profit academic nounce the launch of our highly antici- sented at the SEM annual meeting in organization founded in 1964 for the pated website, Smithsonian Global Atlanta this fall. The competition in- purpose of supporting research and Sound (www.smithsonianglobalsound. cludes a cash award of up to US$50. All promoting scholarly exchange in Tur- org). Smithsonian Global Sound offers students giving papers on popular mu- key. ARIT maintains two research insti- digital downloads of music and sound sic topics at the upcoming conference tutes in Turkey, one in Istanbul and one from around the world. The site has a are encouraged to submit their paper in Ankara. Both branches consist of a wealth of educational content and down- for consideration. The winner of last library, hostel, and administrative of- loads are accompanied by extensive year’s prize will be announced during fices for the support of American or liner notes. Our goal is to encourage the SEM General Business meeting. Canadian based scholars conducting local musicians and traditions around About the prize. Scholar, teacher, research in Turkey. ARIT administers the planet through international recog- and musician, Lise Waxer was an ethno- the following fellowship programs in nition, the payment of royalties, and musicologist whose research on salsa 2006-7 to support research and ex- support for regional archives. was greatly admired in the field and change in Turkey. The application To date, Smithsonian Global Sound whose supportive work as a mentor deadline is November 1, 2005. features the collections of Smithsonian and colleague inspired the greatest loy- NEH/ARIT Advanced Fellowships for Folkways Recordings, Archive and Re- alty and respect from those around her. Research in Turkey. NEH/ARIT Ad- search Centre for Ethnomusicology of Her untimely death in 2002 was a shock vanced Fellowships cover all fields of the American Institute of Indian Studies to those who knew her, and at the 2002 the humanities, including prehistory, (ARCE) in New Delhi, India, and the SEM meeting, the PMSSEM voted to history, art, archaeology, literature, and International Library of African Music name the prize in her honor. linguistics as well as interdisciplinary (ILAM) in Grahamstown, South Africa. Application. Each prize candidate aspects of cultural history for applicants Downloads from Central Asia and other must deposit four copies of his/her who have completed their academic parts of the world will be added in the paper to the prize committee chair at training. The fellowships may be held months to come. Users can browse by the PMSSEM business meeting at the for terms ranging from four months to a genre, instrument, geographical loca- annual SEM conference and fill in a full year. Stipends range from $13,335 tion, and culture group, and enjoy Artist registration form. The time and location to $40,000. Features and Radio Global Sound. Sub- of the PMSSEM meeting will be listed in ARIT Fellowships for Research in scriptions are available for educational the conference program. The paper Turkey. ARIT Fellowships are offered institutions. Please visit (website) deposited is to be the version that is for research in ancient, medieval, or www.smithsonianglobalsound.org for read at the conference and may not modern times, in any field of the hu- more information. exceed twelve double-spaced pages manities and social sciences. Post- (roughly 3,900 words). Candidates are doctoral and advanced doctoral fellow- Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering encouraged to submit four copies of ships may be held for various terms, the Fisk University-Library of taped audio or visual examples that will from two to three months up to terms of Congress Coahoma County Study, be used in the presentation (tape cas- a year. Stipends range from $4,000 to 1941-1942. Edited by Robert sette for audio examples; North Ameri- $16,000. Gordon and Bruce Nemerov can standard VHS format for video) Samuel H. Kress/ARIT Fellowship (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005) with a brief explanation of how the for Research in Archaeology and Art Lost Delta Found presents long lost examples are used in the presentation. History. Graduate level fellowships of research from three noted Fisk Univer- Administration. This year’s selec- up to $17,000 and tenures of up to one sity scholar—John W. Work, Lewis Wade tion committee includes Tracey Laird year will be offered for doctoral candi- Jones, and Samuel C. Adams, Jr.—who (Chair), Dan Cavicchi, Gordon Thomp- dates matriculated at U.S. or Canadian journeyed with folklorist Alan Lomax of son, and Jennifer Milioto Matsue. En- institutions. the Library of Congress to Coahoma tries will be judged solely on the con- The Kenan Erim Fellowship sup- County, Mississippi. Their purpose was tent of the papers, including the use of ports archaeological research (excava- to document the musical habits and video and audio examples submitted. tion or field study) of material at history of the black community there. The 2005 Waxer Prize selection com- Aphrodisias in Summer 2006 ($2,500). The book peels back layers of time and mittee will decide upon a winner by For more information, please con- gives exciting new perspectives on the March 15, 2006. tact Nancy Leinwand, Administrator: music and culture of the Mississippi For further details, please visit the (tel) 215.898.3474; (email) leinwand@ Delta. SEM home page or the PMSSEM page at sas.upenn.edu; or visit (website) http:/ (website) http://orpheus.tamu.edu/ /ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT. Continued on page 10 SEM Newsletter 5

Anthony Seeger logical and ethnomusicological lineages the Smithsonian Institution, Washing- to present a “musical anthropology” ton, D.C. During this time, he became that established aspects of social life as involved in research and action in the Continued from page 1 musical, and as created and re-created realms of the independent recording Music (ICTM) from 1997-99, and Secre- through performance. Rather than as- industry, rights to intellectual property, tary-General of ICTM from 2001 to the suming a pre-existing and logically prior and the structure of ethnographic re- present. Both grandfather and grand- social and cultural cordings. This work son have made significant contribu- matrix within which Seeger recounts how he took resulted in a number tions to ethnomusicological theory and music is performed, knowledge originally obtained of international lec- method, and served their academic so- Seeger’s description for a scholarly purpose and tures, conferences, cieties as well as society at large. and analysis of the helped Suyá use it to benefit and publications on Born in New York City on May 29, mouse ceremony themselves in their battles for the subject of field 1945, and raised within the musically within a cycle of cer- recordings, archives, and politically active extended Seeger emonial activities and land, resources, and cultural and intellectual prop- family, Anthony Seeger received his a structurally orches- integrity. This movement of erty rights, culminat- Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Univer- trated set of speech ethnomusicology and ethno- ing in a co-edited sity of Chicago in 1974. During his and song events pre- musicologists “outside aca- volume with Shubha predoctoral research with the Suyá sented music as a part demia,” its historical prece- Chaudhuri, Archives (1970-73), he engaged his Suyá hosts of the very construc- for the Future: Global with banjo and song, as they drew him tion and interpreta- dents and its social conse- Perspectives on Au- into their ceremonial and musical world. tion of social rela- quences, is the subject of his diovisual Archives in His continued visits to the Suyá over the tionships and pro- Charles Seeger presentation at the 21st Century (Cal- years, with his most recent visit in 2004, cesses. the 50th annual meeting of the cutta: Seagull Press, have resulted in numerous publications Seeger’s method- Society for Ethnomusicology. 2004). in English and Portuguese that speak to ological and analyti- In July 2000, An- anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, cal breakthroughs into performance- thony Seeger joined the faculty of the and musicologists in a writing style that centered and musically-centered social Department of Ethnomusicology at never shies from complex details, but analysis found in the 1988 version of UCLA, where he continues to draw recounts them in an approachable, ac- Why Suyá Sing is matched by the upon his field research, social activism, tion-packed rendering of social and Afterword of the 2004 version, which and experiences in the worlds of ceremonial life. extends musical anthropology into ap- archiving and ethnographic recordings His renowned book Why Suyá Sing: plied ethnomusicology. Here Seeger to help train the next generation of A Musical Anthropology of an Amazo- recounts how he took knowledge origi- ethnomusicologists. He is recipient of nian People, originally published in 1987 nally obtained for a scholarly purpose a Guggenheim Fellowship (1995), an by Cambridge University Press with and helped Suyá use it to benefit them- elected Fellow of the American Acad- accompanying cassette, received the selves in their battles for land, resources, emy of Arts and Sciences (1993), and American Musicological Society’s and cultural integrity. This movement has been awarded fellowships from Kinkeldey award in October 1988, and of ethnomusicology and ethnomusi- NEH, the Ford Foundation, NSF, SSRC, has been issued in a revised paperback cologists “outside academia,” its histori- Wenner-Gren, and the Smithsonian, with CD by the University of Illinois cal precedents and its social conse- along with numerous other organiza- Press in 2004. Why Suyá Sing, building quences, is the subject of his Charles tions and institutions. He has also re- upon the solid ethnographic founda- Seeger presentation at the 50th annual ceived funding from the Grateful Dead’s tion laid in his earlier Nature and Soci- meeting of the Society for Ethnomusi- Rex Foundation to support applied eth- ety in Central Brazil: The Suyá Indians cology. nomusicological work with the Suyá. of Mato Grosso (Harvard University Press, In 1973, and again from 1975 through His wife, Judy, and daughters Elisa 1981), drew upon forays into ethnomu- 1982, Seeger taught in the Department and Hiléia have joined him in his field sicological theory and analysis that first of Anthropology and the Graduate Pro- research among the Suyá. While his found expression in Seeger’s extensive gram in Social Anthropology of the students and wide-ranging readership and well-archived field collection of National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, may not have visited the Suyá, they Suyá song and speech genres. These becoming Chair and Director in 1981. have been brought into their world of materials formed the basis for record- From 1974-75, he served as Assistant euphoric song and the ongoing drama ings (Música Indigena: A arte vocal dos Professor of Anthropology at Pomona of indigenous rights and intellectual Suyá, 1982) and articles (“Porque os College, returning again to the United property rights issues through Seeger’s índios Suyá cantam para as suas irmãs) states in 1982 to become Associate teaching, mentorship, and publications. appearing first in Portuguese, and later Professor, then Professor of Anthropol- Those attending the 50th annual meet- developed as articles for the journal ogy and Director of the Archives of ing of the Society of Ethnomusicology Ethnomusicology (1979), and McLeod Traditional Music at Indiana University, will have the opportunity to reflect with and Herndon’s coedited The Ethnogra- Bloomington. In 1988 he became Cura- him upon the often-neglected history phy of Musical Performance. tor of the Folkways Collection and Di- and future role of ethnomusicologists Why Suyá Sing brought together the rector of Smithsonian Folkways Record- outside academia. various strands of Seeger’s anthropo- ings in the Office of Folklife Programs at 6 SEM Newsletter

People & Places Cologne during Spring 2005. He has in founding and heading the outstand- joined the ethnomusicology faculty as ing Archive of Maori and Pacific Music Nathan Hesselink has accepted a Lecturer at Monash University in at the University of Auckland have been position in the School of Music at the Melbourne, Australia. many. Your documentation of the University of British Columbia. His Mervyn McLean has been awarded a collections with excellent catalogues, book, tentatively titled, P’ungmul: Vis- citation and cash award of $5000 from as well as your bibliographies, books iting the Worlds of South Korean Per- the Lilburn Endowment Trust of New and articles have opened up Maori cussion Music and Dance, will be pub- Zealand “in recognition of outstanding music to a wide audience and its greater lished by the University of Chicago services to New Zealand music.” The appreciation. For many years you have Press in 2006. following is the text of a letter from been influential as a teacher at the On July 9, 2005, Joe Hickerson was David Underwood, Chairman of the University of Auckland. We congratu- presented the annual Excellence in the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment late you on your many achievements Traditional Arts Award by Walt Michael, Trust Board, to Dr. McLean accompany- and I am very pleased to enclose a Director of Common Ground on the ing the citation: “The Alexander Turnbull cheque for $5,000.00 and a citation.” Hill at McDaniel College in Westminster, Library Endowment Trust Board has Deborah Wong will spend the 2005- Maryland. The event culminated the great pleasure in conveying to you the 06 academic year at the National Hu- afternoon performances at Common wish of the Music Advisory Committee manities Center as a National Endow- Ground’s annual American Music & Arts of the Lilburn Trust that you be given a ment for the Humanities Fellow. She Festival at the Carroll County Farm grant of $5,000.00 and a citation in will be working on a book about race, Museum. Joe Hickerson will be cel- recognition of your outstanding ser- gender, sexuality, belief, and the bodies ebrating his 70th birthday with a concert vices to New Zealand music. This grant created through Japanese American taiko at 7:30 pm on Monday, October 17, has been made in terms of the Deed of and the political economy of Pacific 2005, at St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Trust ‘. . . to foster and promote New Rim multiculturalism. At the University 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, Zealand music, the advancement of of California at Riverside, she was re- MD. The event is sponsored by the musical knowledge and appreciation, cently named University Honors Pro- Institute of Musical Traditions and will the support of the musical arts, and the gram Faculty Mentor of the Year and include an interview of Joe by Mary preservation of musical archives. . . .’ received the Women Who Make a Dif- Cliff, host of “Traditions” on WETA-FM From your university student days to ference award from the UCR Women’s 90.9. For more information, visit the present time, you have devoted Resource Center. She has also joined (website) www.imtfolk.org. your life to the collecting, preserving the Board of Trustees for the Alliance Made Hood completed his Ph.D. in and making accessible traditional Maori for California Traditional Arts.

ethnomusicology at the University of and Pacific music. Your achievements

○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○ Ali Jihad Racy Wins Book Award Ali Jihad Racy’s recent publication, reader—and indeed many Middle East Making Music in the Arab World: The specialists—the world of Arab music Culture and Artistry of Tarab (Cam- and that is why the judges decided to bridge University Press) won a presti- award the major prize this year to this gious first prize for the best book on the wonderful book.” Middle East to appear in 2003. Granted Meanwhile, in the United States, the annually by Al-Mubarak Foundation and committee for the Society for Ethnomu- sponsored by the British Society for sicology Alan P. Merriam Prize for the Middle East Studies (BRISMES), the most distinguished book in ethnomusi- award was presented to Racy, performer, cology published in 2003, granted Mak- composer, and Professor at the Univer- ing Music in the Arab World Honorable sity of California at Los Angeles, in a Mention at the Society’s Annual Meet- special ceremony during the Society’s ing in November 2004. Since its publi- annual meeting at the School of Orien- cation, the book has led to numerous tal and African Studies (SOAS) in Lon- interviews with the author, for example don in July 2004. on BBC, and to a full-length program on According to Dr. Noel Brehony, chair- tarab on Public Radio International man of the judging committee, “It [the (PRI). The book is expected to come book] represents the culmination of out in Turkish and Arabic. Recent re- Professor Racy’s long and distinguished views of the book appear in Digest of career as an accomplished performer, Middle East Studies (v.12-2, Fall 2003), scholar and teacher of Middle East music. Notes (v.60-4, June 2004); al-Jadid (v.10- He explores the phenomenon of the tion. It is written in a clear and engaging 48, 2004); and online at the Afropop tarab—looking at its musical substance, style that will appeal to musicians and Worldwide (website) http://www. lyrics, performance practice, secular and nonmusicians alike. It is rare that we afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/312/ religious ecstasy, and musical educa- find a book that opens up to the general Tarab:+Making+Music+in+the+Arab+World. SEM Newsletter 7

Robert Garfias Hon- spring and fall, the Japanese govern- in the U.S. and was particularly instru- ment bestows decorations on individu- mental in bringing the first gagaku ored with the Order of als who have made distinguished con- performance to the Walt Disney Con- the Rising Sun tributions to Japan and to the promo- cert Hall in October 2004. Garfias has tion of its external relations with foreign also introduced gagaku to renowned Robert Garfias (University of Califor- countries. Of the 4057 receiving the Western musicians and composers such nia at Irvine) has been awarded the honor in Spring 2005, only 34 were as Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor non-Japanese. Typically, non-Japanese Garfias teaches a wide range of of Japan. The conferment of this award recipients receive their awards from the courses dealing with many of the world’s took place on May 20, 2005 in Tokyo, nearest Japanese consulate. Garfias music including courses on the music of Japan, and in connection with the Or- was invited to a conferment ceremony Japan and Okinawa. He has taught at der, Garfias was granted an audience in Tokyo and granted an audience with the University of Washington, UCLA, with the Emperor. The official name of the Emperor. UC Berkeley, and UCI, and has con- the order is “Kyokujitsu Chu Jusho” and For more than 40 years, Garfias has ducted fieldwork in a number of places is the highest honor that can be con- examined the traditional music of the across the globe. Fluent in eight differ- ferred on a non-Japanese citizen. It was Japanese Imperial Court, koto music, ent languages, including Japanese, awarded in recognition of Garfias’ long and the music of Okinawa, and has Garfias was past-president of the Soci- engagement in the study and dissemi- published studies on gagaku and ety for Ethnomusicology, a member of nation of Japanese culture and for his Okinawan music. He studied in Japan’s the Smithsonian Council, and served for role in the assistance of cross-cultural Imperial Household Music Department ten years on the NEA National Council efforts between Japan and the United and provided support for the first U.S. on the Arts. He recently served as a States. tour of a gagaku ensemble in 1959. Research Professor for the Japanese Garfias was one of seven people in Since then, he has often assisted in National Museum of Ethnology and the U.S. to receive an award. Every presentations of gagaku performances continues to do work with the museum. 8 SEM Newsletter

SEM Snapshot: A letter written in 1973 by Judith Becker to Barbara Krader, Nazir Jairazbhoy, and Mark Slobin (reproduced with permission) SEM 1955-2005 SEM Newsletter 9 10 SEM Newsletter

Announcements León Jimenes in conjunc- tion with the Instituto de Continued from page 4 Estudios Caribeños and the Secretaría de Estado It was a historic trip that led to the de Cultura. The group earliest recordings of Muddy Waters plans to continue the dia- and the discovery of Son House. The logue begun this year in field notes, interviews, and musical tran- 2007, when the confer- scriptions of the Fisk researchers were ence theme will be on a major component of the study and son and salsa. were to be published jointly by Fisk and The three keynote ad- the Library of Congress. The Fisk mate- dresses were given by rial, however, disappeared in Washing- Paul Austerlitz, who ton D.C., before the findings could be shared excerpts of his published. 1980s field interviews in Lost for more than a half-century, his talk entitled “Meren- the work from Work, Jones, and Adams, gue and Dominican iden- was recently uncovered by noted film- tity;” José Guerrero of the maker and author, Robert Gordon. Universidad Autónoma Gordon, who directed the PBS docu- de Santo Domingo, who mentary Muddy Waters Can’t Be Satis- discussed the metaphysi- fied and the Memphis episode of Martin cal implications of the on- Scorses’s The Blues series, edited the going search for meren- book with Bruce Nemerov, Audio Spe- gue origins, and Angel cialist for the Center for Popular Music Quintero Rivera of Puerto at Middle Tennessee State University. Rico, whose memorable Their work adds a new dimension and talk focused on ties be- brings to life a richer, more detailed and tween merengue, danza, ultimately more accurate view of the life and danzón. of the black Delta community and the Paul Austerlitz (Brown University) delivered the opening Besides Austerlitz, keynote address, “El merengue y la identidad dominicana” music that ran through it. two other SEM members (Merengue and Dominican Identity) at the conference, For more information, please con- gave papers. Martha Ellen “Música, Identidad y Cultura en el Caribe” (Music, Identity, tact Kissy Black (Lotus Nile Media): (tel) Davis discussed alterna- and Culture in the Caribbean) held April 8-10, 2005, at the 615.598.0229; (email) kissyblack@ tives to merengue in the Centro León in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic lotosnile.com or Sue Havlish (Vanderbilt (Photo by Martha Ellen Davis) construction of Domini- University Press): (tel) 615.343.2446; (email) [email protected]. can identity in her paper entitled “From jazz-fusion group “La Orquesta de Tradition to Identity: The Symbolic Tra- Danzas Mezcladas,” and legends of both jectory of Dominican Musical Folklore.” popular and traditional merengue from Sydney Hutchinson focused on the re- Rafaelito Román to Johnny Ventura and Report on Primer Con- lationship between urbanization, mi- Joseíto Mateo. Most notably, practicing gration, and the development of new musicians and dancers were integrated greso Internacional de styles of merengue típico in her paper, into each of the conference’s 15 panels, Música, Identidad y “Merengue típico in Santiago and New giving demonstrations, sharing personal Cultura en el Caribe York: A Transnational and Traditional experiences, or serving as chairs and Music.” Other noteworthy participants moderators who offered commentary. By Sydney Hutchinson, New York included author Darío Tejeda, folklorist Their contributions were especially valu- University, and Martha Ellen Davis, Dago-berto Tejada Ortiz, dancer Josefina able, since such voices are normally University of Florida Miniño, singers Milly Quezada and Felix heard only indirectly in the form of del Rosario, and accordionists Bartolo informant quotations. These artists’ Several SEM members recently at- Alvarado and La India Canela. A total of participation in the academic sphere tended the first International Confer- 45 papers were presented by scholars opened up new possibilities for dia- ence on Music, Identity, and Culture in and performers from the Dominican logue and can offer a valuable model the Caribbean in Santiago de los Cabal- Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, USA, for future SEM meetings. leros, Dominican Republic, which took Canada, Mexico, Chile, Curaçao, place April 8-10, 2005. The theme of Martinique, Spain, Brazil, and Venezu- this conference was “Merengue in Do- ela on topics from national identities minican and Caribbean Culture,” in and social processes to mass media and honor of the 150th anniversary of the the culture industries. first publication mentioning merengue The many groups that performed at in the Dominican Republic. It was the conference included the Ballet hosted by the Centro Cultural Eduardo Folklórico Dominicano, Fellé Vega’s SEM Newsletter 11

Call for Papers frameworks. Outstanding papers from Forum on Music and Christian among those chosen for the conference Scholarship will be considered for publication in Music Performance and Improvi- February 24-25, 2006, Wheaton Current Musicology. Some possible sation College, Wheaton, Illinois themes include (in no particular order): February 3-4, 2006, Columbia University • Community building through perfor- The Forum on Music and Christian The Columbia Music Scholarship mance and improvisation Scholarship seeks proposals for their upcoming annual meeting, which will Conference (CMSC) invites paper sub- • Intercultural and transnational impro- rd take place at Wheaton College in missions for its 3 annual conference visation on the theme of “Music Performance Wheaton, Illinois, February 24-25, 2006. and Improvisation,” to be held on Feb- • The phenomenology of listening Papers on any topic pertaining to ruary 3-4, 2006 at Columbia University. • The politics of improvisation music and Christian scholarship are Recent scholars in the humanities • Technologies of presence and em- welcome. Likewise, we invite submis- and social sciences have called for a bodiment sions representing a variety of ap- redirection of academic work away from • Ontologies of performance and com- proaches and perspectives: history, hermeneutical interpretation towards a position theory and analysis, philosophy and theology, ethnomusicology, critical focus on performance and issues of Musical performances of race, class, • theory, and the like. Papers will be 25 presence, materiality, and embodiment. gender, sexuality, and nation Music scholarship seems particularly minutes long. We would also like to well positioned to participate in such a • Music and embodiment encourage proposals for a panel en- dialogue and recent work in musicol- • Performance, presence and the pro- titled “Music, Theology, and Ineffability.” ogy has anticipated this broader turn duction of meaning Please send an abstract of approxi- towards the performative. George E. • Challenges to music analysis through mately 300 words which includes your Lewis’ work on the origins of Afrological improvisation and performance name, affiliation, and contact informa- and Eurological improvisatory perfor- • Music writing, criticism, and analysis tion to the Chair of the Program Com- mance has been particularly important as performance mittee: Richard Wattenbarger, Depart- ment of Fine Arts, La Salle University in understanding the interdependence Historical performance practice • Philadelphia, PA 19141; (fax) 240. of their cultural lineages. Carolyn Abbate We invite proposals for 20-minute has called for a direct engagement with 218.6453; (email) wattenbarger@ presentations from any graduate stu- lasalle.edu. Deadline: October 15, 2005. performance by musicologists that chal- dent engaged in musical research. Sub- lenges a view of music as a social text to be deciphered, suggesting instead that missions should include: a 500-word scholars engage with the drastic and proposal (for use in the conference subjective act of music making. Some program), a 250-word abstract, a 150- SEM Silent Auction 2005 music theoretical writing have perhaps word bio, and a cover sheet, including Doorstop. Shim. Coaster. There best anticipated and led the way for indication of any special audio-visual are many things you can do with such discussions of the immediacy of needs, the author’s name, email address your unused books, journals and performed experience. Studies by theo- and proposal title CDs. Why not donate them to the rists such as Nicholas Cook, Marion A. Both the proposal and abstract SEM Silent Auction? Guck, and Suzanne G. Cusick have should be accompanied by a title. Au- The fifth annual SEM Silent Auc- directed attention toward the material- thors will be notified in November 2005 tion is coming soon. So gather ity of sound and the intimate embodied of our decision. Additionally, in order those books, journals, and CDs relationships that are produced through to ensure anonymous evaluations, and bring them with you to At- listening and performance. please remove your name (or any other lanta! You are strongly encour- This conference seeks further en- identifying marks) from the proposal aged to bring the items with you. gagement with the issues raised by the and abstract proper. If, however, this is not possible, authors mentioned above, as well as an Please email all submission informa- please ship items to: SEM 2005 expansion of these questions beyond tion (pdf, .rtf and .doc only), no later Silent Auction Receiving Coordi- their current limits. We also seek to than October 31, 2005 to (email) nator, Emory University, Depart- interrogate the role of performance and [email protected]. Alternately, hard ment of Music, 1804 North Decatur improvisation as they relate to our own copies can be mailed (postmarked by Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322-1123; work as writers on and performers of October 31) to: The Columbia Music (tel) 404.727.6445. All boxes must music. Our goal is to open up all fields Scholarship Conference, Department of be shipped by October 31, 2005. of scholarship to the importance of Music, Columbia University, 2960 Broad- All proceeds from the auction music as performed, improvised, and way, MC 1812, New York, NY 10027. help to defray costs of student lived experience as it is perceived across For further details, including com- participation at the next annual the boundaries of music genres, disci- plete citations of the authors and works meeting. 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Obituaries and North and Latin Ameri- can historical topics. He Gerard Béhague (1937-2005) launched a two-semester se- quence in which he began By Tom Turino, University of Illinois developing his holistic ap- at Urbana-Champaign proach of covering the indig- Gerard Henri Béhague, 67, died of enous, rural-mestizo, urban- lung cancer in the loving presence of popular, and European-cri- his wife, Cecilia, and his two daughters, ollo elite music traditions of Sabina and Dominique, in the early a given Latin American re- hours of the morning of June 13, 2005 gion within a single course. at an Austin hospice. Active and vibrant It was during his time at the of spirit to the end, he was a prolific University of Illinois that Pro- writer and scholar, a tireless editor and fessor Béhague became in- lecturer, and, perhaps most important creasingly engaged with eth- to him personally, a dedicated teacher nomusicology. He began his and mentor who deeply influenced the life-long study of candomblé lives and careers of his students and the in Brazil with an SSRC re- many others he touched. Through his search fellowship, and trav- varied activities he was the single most eled to West Africa to inves- influential force for furthering the study tigate sources for particular of Latin American music in North Afro-Brazilian practices. Illinois col- the Handbook of Latin American Stud- America during the last three decades, leagues Charles Hamm and Bruno Nettl ies after 1970. He was President of the and was a prominent leader in this field organized a plenary session on popular Society for Ethnomusicology from 1979 throughout Latin America and in Eu- music at a joint meeting of the AMS and to 1981. In 1985 he was named the rope. SEM in 1971 where Béhague presented Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Endowed Professor Equally comfortable speaking and what would become his classic “Bossa in Music, and in 1991 the Virginia L. writing in French, Portuguese, English, & Bossas” article (1973). This paper Murchison Endowed Regents Professor and Spanish, Gerard Béhague was born strengthened the budding interest in of Fine Arts. In 1994 he was inducted November 2, 1937 in Montpellier, France, urban popular music study within eth- into the Brazilian Academy of Music, and grew up in Rio de Janeiro where he nomusicology and marks an important and in 1997 was awarded the title of studied piano and composition. He moment in Béhague’s career. Commander of the Order of Rio Branco began graduate work in musicology at In 1974, Professor Béhague joined by the Brazilian government for his the Insitut de Musicologie of the Uni- the musicology faculty of the University scholarly contributions. He received versity of Paris. He completed his Ph.D. of Texas at Austin where he began to several NEH grants to conduct summer under the guidance of Gilbert Chase at develop one of the leading ethnomusi- seminars on Latin American music for Tulane University in 1966 with a disser- cology programs in the country in col- college teachers and was also the re- tation on Brazilian musical nationalism, laboration with the Institute for Latin cipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. later published as a monograph entitled American Studies and the Folklore Cen- Amidst all these activities and honors he The Beginnings of Musical Nationalism ter under the leadership of Ameríco continued to lecture and attend confer- in Brazil (1971). Chase’s pan-Ameri- Paredes. At Texas, Béhague taught a ences all over the world, conduct re- canism and respect for all types of three-semester sequence on Latin Ameri- search and write for publication, and American music had a lasting influence can music, classes on African music, advise a growing number of graduate on Béhague’s varied research interests and theoretical seminars on ethnomusi- students. and teaching. While at Tulane he also cological topics. The ethnomusicology I was Gerard’s advisee from 1979 took an ethnomusicology course with faculty was expanded to two and later until 1987, during what was, perhaps, Norma McLeod and so was introduced three members. He also oversaw the the busiest administrative period of his to the field that he would ultimately creation of a variety of student musical career; yet throughout many semesters identify himself with most closely. ensembles including the U.T. Mariachi we met in his office on a weekly or bi- Directly out of graduate school, Pro- and the Andean ensemble. He served weekly basis for an hour to discuss my fessor Béhague moved with his young as Chairman of the Music department work. Although effective as a class- wife and newborn to Champaign-Ur- from 1980 to 1989. In 1980, he founded room teacher, it was during these pri- bana, where he became a member of the Latin American Music Review with vate sessions where he had the greatest the musicology faculty of the University articles in English, Spanish, and Portu- impact as a graduate teacher and men- of Illinois (1966-1974). An excellent guese, and it became the premier North tor. He had an incredibly quick, critical dancer himself, Béhague is warmly re- American journal treating all genres of mind and would doggedly challenge us membered for enlivening faculty par- Latin American music from theoretical, with penetrating questions we were ties with Latin American music and historical, and ethnomusicological per- expected to answer with equal facility, dancing, an enthusiasm he maintained spectives. He served as editor of LAMR all this within an atmosphere that re- throughout his life. He was originally until his death, of Ethnomusicology from mained formal and somewhat intimi- hired to teach European music history, 1974-1978, and of the music section of dating—he was Dr. Béhague until, and SEM Newsletter 13 sometimes long after, the dissertation defense—while at the same time being warm and extremely supportive. He Janice E. Kleeman (1949-2005) could be fierce with adversaries (one of By Martha Ellen Davis, University of Florida our nicknames for him was El Tigre), but for those within the circle, his loy- alty, faith, and friendship were unques- Janice E. Kleeman received her tionable and lasting. His students cur- Ph.D. in Music with distinction in rently teach in major musicology and 1982 at the University of California ethnomusicology programs throughout at Berkeley. Her dissertation was the United States and in Latin America entitled, The Origins and Stylistic and publish widely, thus broadening Development of Polish-American his influence among new generations. Polka Music. She is a featured Béhague had an encyclopedic expert in Les Blank’s documen- knowledge of Latin American music tary film, “In Heaven There is No and music scholarship exhibited through Beer” (Flower Films, 1984), inter- his many contributions to the New Grove viewed in her bathing suit at a Dictionary of Music and Musicians, his polka festival. book Music in Latin America: An Intro- Jan Kleeman served as Assis- duction (1979), and his many summary tant Professor of Music at Brown articles on Latin American music and University (Providence, Rhode Is- directions in Latin Americanist scholar- land) from 1982-1987. In addition ship. He contributed to ethnomusico- to advising and tutorials, she taught logical debates with theoretical articles, topical courses in American and book chapters, and reviews on musical European folk music, Asian classi- change, music and ritual, and the articu- cal music, and a wide range of lation of race, ethnicity, class, and mu- theoretical courses, including new sical style. He read widely and taught ones she developed and intro- about French and Canadian approaches duced into Brown’s music curricu- to the semiology of music. In collabo- lum: Introduction to Ethnomusi- that she would lose her job as well ration with Austin colleagues Joel cology, Folklore and Music, Lin- through non-renewal of her contract Sherzer, Roger Abrahams, Richard guistic and Semiotic Approaches at Brown. Bauman, Norma McLeod, and Marcia to Musical Analysis, Music as Oral Jan remained in Providence, took Herndon, Béhague contributed to the Tradition, Meaning in Music, Stud- a Master’s degree in counseling, and development of the “ethnography of ies in Folk Music Analysis, and her worked in this field as a second performance” approach within ethno- favorite: “Rock ‘n’ Roll is Here to career. However, the blows of her musicology with his edited volume Per- Stay!” which filled a large lecture losses had triggered a state of de- formance Practice: Ethnomusicological hall to capacity. Rock ‘n’ roll pression from which she never re- Perspectives (1980). He specialized in became Jan’s new research thrust; ally recovered. In February, 2005, the music of Brazil, contributing articles she lectured widely and started a she moved to Houston to be nearer on Afro-Brazilian candomblé; bossa textbook on the subject. her family. But on April 15, she took nova, tropicália, and MPB; studies of Her developing potential in her life. musical nationalism in elite composi- ethnomusicological theory during Jan leaves her daughter, Ellen tion, and his award wining Hector Villa- that period is also shown in her Kardas, of Los Angeles, California, a Lobos: The Search for Brazil’s Musical significant article, “The Parameters graduate of M.I.T. Elegant and gra- Soul (1994). of Musical Transmission” published cious like her mother, Ellen writes of At the end of May 2005, Cecilia in The Journal of Musicology (v.4- her, “She was a genteel lady who Béhague and Javier León organized a 1, Winter 1985-86:1-22). appreciated the finer things in life…: gathering of former and current stu- However, her career and hap- she was intellectual and inquisitive…; dents, colleagues, and friends at the piness were cut short abruptly by she cherished her family and had a Béhagues’ home. Serenaded by the the loss of her second husband, great number of friends who cared U.T. Mariachi, Gerard moved among us James Koetting, the senior ethno- about her deeply.” Memorial ser- with energy, wit, and charm. For much musicologist at Brown University, vices were held on April 20 (Unitar- of the evening we sat in their living who suffered a fatal heart attack at ian) and April 23 (Baptist) in Hous- room taking turns playing and singing the Society for Ethnomusicology ton, and on May 11 at the First songs from all over South America, meeting in Los Angeles in October Unitarian Church of Providence, with, of course, a running commentary 1984, after but a few months of where Jan had served as director of from Gerard—much like the parties I marriage. Then she was advised music. remembered from my graduate days. He was and remains a force to be reckoned with. He is deeply missed. 14 SEM Newsletter

SEM 1955-2005 Under the rubric of “ethnomusicologist,” it seems, the probing scholar, the skilled musi- SEM Meetings: A Few Reflections cian, the nimble dancer, and the garrulous By R. Anderson Sutton, University of Wisconsin at Madison socializer are very often one and the same.

It was an unseasonably cold mid- Until that day I had been inclined to Gathering for this annual exchange November afternoon when I arrived at doubt the intellectual acuity of those so of ideas is—for me and, I think, for my first SEM meeting: Philadelphia 1976. advanced in years—Charles was just a many of us—a joyous occasion. Just as Little did I realize then that I would month shy of his 90th birthday. Now, as I have always looked forward to Christ- wind up trekking to almost every meet- then, I marvel at both his vision and his mas holidays and summer travel since ing for the next thirty autumns (only fervor. Younger scholars have taken my earliest years, I have come to look five meetings have I missed in the years their inspiration from him, from others forward to the annual SEM meeting. since that first one). Vicious weather of the SEM founders, and from a host of Until I tire (will I ever?) of this special and a hotel fire notwithstanding, the scholars who have participated in our event, I’ll be there to renew and expand combination of stimulating panels by meetings as Seeger lecturers, paper giv- my engagement with the field of day and socializing until the wee hours ers, discussants, performers, and partiers. ethnomusicology, its ideas and its set the tone that I would find year after Of course, these categories have over- people, seeking inspiration, making new year. Every meeting, of course, has had lapped and continue to do so. Under friends, and seeing old ones. Never, its unique local flavor and appeal, but the rubric of “ethnomusicologist,” it come to think of it, have I experienced the core structure, if you will, has seems, the probing scholar, the skilled a “bad” meeting, as I always come back changed little. musician, the nimble dancer, and the to my university batteries recharged. Etched in my memory from that first garrulous socializer are very often one Get ready, Atlanta, Hawai‘i, I’ll be see- one are the inspiring words and stirring and the same. Nowhere is this clearer ing you soon. delivery of the first Charles Seeger lec- than at our meetings. turer—none other than Charles himself! Position Announcement: Editor(s) for SEM Newsletter

The Society for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board of Directors, and available; (4) a brief narrative of their invites proposals from Society mem- attends the SEM Editorial Board meet- training and experience in ethnomusi- bers who wish to be considered for the ing at SEM conferences. It is important cology; and (5) their ideas about how editorship of the SEM Newsletter. The that the editor be contactable in July the newsletter might develop and what newsletter is published four times an- and August to coordinate the publish- it might encompass under their nually, in January, March, May, and ing of the preliminary conference pro- editorship to best serve SEM specifi- September. The newsletter provides gram in the September issue with the cally, and the field of ethnomusicology SEM members with access to essential Program Chair and the SEM Business generally. Applicants should also sub- and timely information about the Soci- Office. mit a curriculum vitae and the names of ety and the field. Each issue runs 8-40 This position will require certain three potential referees (including the pages and includes a column on current kinds of budgetary support. The applicant’s immediate superior, if appli- issues and directions by the SEM Presi- editor(s) will need a core set of equip- cable). Potential editors must be mem- dent, SEM news, grant information, con- ment including a computer, color printer, bers of the Society for Ethnomusicol- ference announcements, reports from and scanner, publishing software (e.g. ogy. SEM welcomes nominations from SEM members, obituaries, information Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Pagemaker, Society members (nominees must also about upcoming SEM meetings, and Adobe Acrobat), and their institution’s submit all required materials) and en- articles of interest to ethnomusicolo- support to cover recurring miscella- courages applications from women and gists. neous expenses (e.g. telephone, cou- minorities. The newsletter editor(s) will serve rier services, printer accessories, photo- The Editorial Advisory Committee, for a renewable term of three years, copying, etc.). We encourage anybody comprising R. Anderson Sutton (Chair), beginning August 2006. The editor interested in applying to contact the Alan Burdette, Mark DeWitt, Robert must be experienced in manuscript current editor, Tong Soon Lee, at (email) Garfias, Frank Gunderson, Ellen Koskoff, editing and proofing, and is responsible [email protected], to discuss the posi- John Murphy, Jennifer Post, Philip for acquiring and editing articles, coor- tion and its requirements. Applicants Schuyler, Ruth Stone, and David Trasoff, dinating materials provided by the SEM should submit a statement describing will review the applications and make Board of Directors and SEM committee (1) their relevant technical skills, such recommendations to the SEM Board of members, and liaising with the printers as experience with desktop publishing; Directors. The deadline for receipt of on production matters. The editor works (2) previous editorial and/or adminis- applications is March 15, 2006. Please closely with the SEM Business Office, trative experience; (3) assurance that send all materials to R. Anderson Sutton maintains ties with the journal editor appropriate time and support will be (email) [email protected]. SEM Newsletter 15 SEM at 50 Presents Creative Processes of Korean Music

Part I – Tradition Part II – Composition

Daegeum Pansori Gayageum Sanjo Janggo Sijo

Composers Hwang Byungki Hwang Sungho Lee Geonyong Lee Youngja

Visual Artist Koo Bohnchang

Performers Hwang Byungki • Ji Aeri • Jo Jeonghui • Kim Jeongseung • Kim Woongsik • Moon Hyun

8 PM Thursday November 17, 2005 Sheraton Midtown Atlanta at Colony Square 16 SEM Newsletter SEM 50th Annual Conference November 16-20, 2005 Atlanta, Georgia

In Atlanta we will look back with than 600 separate presentations, from Emory University, 5:30pm to 7:30pm, in admiration, nostalgia, wonder, or a criti- which we organized about 140 separate the middle of which there will be some cal demeanor to the beginnings of the sessions with close to 500 presenters. presentations chaired by President Tim Society for Ethnomusicology, and far- The (baker’s) dozen simultaneous ses- Rice. And on Saturday we urge you to ther back to the early times of ethnomu- sions going on most of the time will attend the banquet of local food, which sicology (whenever we think it began). provide an embarrassment of riches to will end with a bit of light entertain- We will contemplate the varieties of the select from. ment, followed by an evening of musi- ethnomusicological experience around Let us direct your attention to some cal celebrations. the world; savor many kinds of study of of the special events arranged to com- You will find a lot of live perfor- a large proportion of the world’s mu- memorate and celebrate. Central to this mances to enjoy. Read the program sics; hear, in concerts and demonstra- anniversary meeting are two plenary carefully and note especially these tions, the music of Atlanta, the South, sessions on Friday, 10:15am to 12:15pm events: on Thursday evening, a concert and much of the world. We will cel- and 1:30pm to 3:30pm, at which eight of Korean music; on Friday evening, a ebrate the moment of founding, fifty senior scholars from around the world concert of Gullah music; on Saturday years ago to the day—November 18, will discuss the history of ethnomusi- during the lunch break, a concert of 1955—and no doubt tell many versions cology from their various perspectives. compositions by pioneer ethnomusi- of our “origin myth.” And we will A panel titled “Perspectives from Five cologists; on Saturday evening, Argen- remind ourselves that we have indeed, Decades” on Thursday afternoon, tinian tango and contemporary Javanese as organization and field, come a long 1:30pm to 3:30pm, will explore how it shadow puppet theater. way, and that we have a long way to go felt to join SEM at difference stages in Come to Atlanta for SEM at Fifty! and new directions to chart. our history. The Charles Seeger lecture, Celebrate, learn, be inspired! All of this we will do at what is by far by Anthony Seeger, on Saturday follow- the largest meeting SEM has had (not ing the business meeting, will have Bruno Nettl and Judith McCulloh counting some of the joint meetings in special relevance to SEM’s anniversary. Program Committee Co-chairs 1985, 1990, and 2000). Your program The celebration per se will begin with a Tong Soon Lee committee received proposals for more Thursday evening reception hosted by Local Arrangements Chair

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16 THURSDAY, NOV. 17 Session 1 8:30am–10:00am Pre-Conference Symposium Race & Place: Invoking New Music Identities Breakfast Block, 7:00 – 8:30 am IA Music in Arabic Cultures 8:30am-5:30pm Grand Ballroom North Chair: Philip Schuyler, University of Program includes lectures by Dwight WOODSTOCK Washington Andrews (music theory, composition, jazz 7:00am–8:00am studies, African-American music) and Allen 2006 Program Committee and Local 8:30 Communal Non-Work Sea Songs E. Tullos (American popular culture, The Arrangements Committee Meeting of the Arabian Gulf: A Kuwaiti South, folklore, American roots music) from Perspective Emory; shape-note singing; panel discus- LOBBY Lisa Urkevich, American Univer- sions by scholars and educators in music, 7:30am–6:00pm sity of Kuwait anthropology, religion, and public health Conference Registration from local universities, with Regula Qureshi 9:00 From beneath This Cedar to the (University of Alberta), Kay Kaufman PRESIDENTIAL SUITE Ends of the Earth: The Lebanese Shelemay (Harvard University), and Deborah 8:00am–12:00pm Superstar Singer, Fairouz Wong (University of California at Riverside). SEM Board of Directors Meeting Kenneth S. Habib, University of California at Santa Barbara SEM Board of Directors and Long HABERSHAM Range Planning Committee Meeting 8:00am–12:00pm 9:30 Music on the Margins: Discourses 2:00pm–5:00pm Highlands Exhibitor Set-up of Middle Eastern Music in Israel GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Galeet Dardashti, University of Texas at Austin SEM Board of Directors Meeting 6:30pm-10:00pm Presidential Suite Thursday, November 17, 2005 SEM Newsletter 17

GRAND BALLROOM NORTH GEORGIA 8:30 Engendering the “Cry”: Moroc- 1B Forum/Roundtable 1E The History and the Future of Ethno- can Shikhât Performing the ‘Aita musicology: Regional Approaches Alessandra Ciucci, CUNY Gradu- 8:30 Interdisciplinary Strategies for ate Center Ethnomusicology’s Future (Spon- Chair: Charlotte Frisbie, Southern Illinois sored by the Careers and Profes- University at Edwardsville 9:00 Female Bakhshi in Khorasan: The Case of Golnabât ‘Atâ’i sional Development Committee) 8:30 Philippine Ethnomusicology: Past, Chair: Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Present and Future Explorations Ameneh Youssefzadeh, CNRS, Paris University M. Arlene Chongson, Temple Uni- 9:30 “Oh, mother-in-law, be good to Presenters: Ian Cross, University of versity me”: Negotiating Gender Rela- Cambridge; Georgina Born, tions in Slovak Traditional Teas- University of Cambridge; 9:00 The Canadian Folk Music Jour- ing Songs Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns nal/The Canadian Journal for Tra- Hopkins University ditional Music - La Revue de Jadranka Vazanova, CUNY Gradu- ate Center SHERWOOD musique folklorique canadienne: Reflections on Thirty Years of ROSWELL 1C Issues in the History of Ethnomusic- Writing about Folk and Tradi- ology tional Music in Canada 1H Native Cultures of the North Ameri- can Continent Chair: Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University Gordon E. Smith, Queen’s University Chair: Beverley Diamond, Memorial 8:30 Singing the Notes between the Keys 9:30 Desperately Seeking Sarasvati: University of Newfoundland Martin Hatch, Cornell University and Themes Past, Present, and Future Ann M. Warde, Cornell University in the Ethnomusicology of South 8:30 Body-Music and Cosmology: The Asia Ritual Sounds of Q’eqchi’ Maya 9:00 Marius Schneider’s “Kosmogonie”: Stephen Slawek, University of Texas People in Highland Guatemala A Glance at Post-World War II at Austin Nanako Taki, Kyoto City Univer- German Ethnomusicology sity of Arts Rüdiger Schumacher, University ANSLEY of Cologne 1F Musics in Indonesia and Southeast 9:00 Hybridity in Creek and Seminole Asia Indian Christian Hymnody 9:30 History, Geography, and Diffu- Karen Taborn, Hunter College, CUNY sion: Ilmari Krohn’s Early Influ- Chair: Sean Williams, Evergreen State ence on the Study of European College 9:30 Emancipating Captive Voices: First Folk Music 8:30 Custom for Hire: The Performance Nations Popular Music and the Erkki Pekkilä, University of of Ethnicity at Cosmopolitan Reclamation of Ethnographic Recordings Helsinki Minangkabau Weddings M. Celia Cain, University of Toronto ATLANTA Jennifer Fraser, University of Illi- nois at Urbana-Champaign ARDMORE 1D Japanese Musics in Contemporary Contexts 9:00 The Lakes, Forests, and the People: 1I New Approaches to Ethnomusic- ology through Performance Studies Chair: William P. Malm, University of Sources of Inspiration for Compo- Michigan sitions of Music and Songs among Chair: Harris M. Berger, Texas A&M the Semelai People in Peninsular University 8:30 Redefining Japaneseness? Time, Malaysia Space, and Identity in Three Clare Chan Suet Ching, Universiti 8:30 Musical Personae: Beyond Tex- Soundscapes of Kimigayo, Japan’s Pendidikan Sultan Idris tual Models in the Music as Perfor- National Anthem mance Debate Junko Oba, Sewanee, The Univer- 9:30 Gamelan Jejog: Issues of Repre- Philip Auslander, Georgia Insti- sity of the South sentation and Identity in Jembrana, tute of Technology West Bali 9:00 Past Reflections, Future Visions: Sabrina Rodriguez, University of 9:00 A Theory of Stance: New Ideas on Performing National Identity California at Los Angeles Meaning and Aesthetics in Music through a Japanese Song Contest Harris M. Berger, Texas A&M Uni- Shelley D. Brunt, University of MARIETTA versity Adelaide 1G Women Performing Songs, Women Engendering Songs: Three Case 9:30 Not Strictly Musical, Not Strictly 9:30 Consummate Kimura: People, Studies Human: Technology, Perfor- Place, and Performance in a To- mance, and the Scope of Ethno- kyo Live House Chair: Alessandra Ciucci, CUNY musicology Marika Leininger-Ogawa, Univer- Graduate Center René T. A. Lysloff, University of sity of Adelaide California at Riverside 18 SEM Newsletter Thursday, November 17, 2005

PEACHTREE PIEDMONT GRAND BALLROOM NORTH 1J Christian Music in Changing Societies IM Poster Sessions (Simultaneous) 2B Theoretical Concepts: A Variety of Interpretations Chair: Suzel Reily, Queen’s University, Belfast Note Time: 8:15am–10:15am 8:15 Applied Ethnomusicology and the Chair: Regula Qureshi, University of 8:30 Music as an Anti-Religious Tool in Alberta the Former Soviet Union Alabama Center for Traditional Cul- Razia Sultanova, SOAS, Univer- ture (Sponsored by the Applied Eth- 10:15 Theorizing Trance and Music sity of London nomusicology Section) among Hindu South Africans Steve Grauberger, Alabama Cen- Jayendran Pillay, Hampshire College 9:00 “Dios Es Bueno”: Music, Dance, ter for Traditional Culture and Expressions of Belief in Cu- 10:45 Ethnomusicology and Cultural ban Protestant Society Kosovo Roma: A Case Study in Ap- Recognition: Toward a Historiog- Valerie Dickerson, University of plied Ethnomusicology (Sponsored raphy of Music and Violence California at Los Angeles by the Applied Ethnomusicology Sec- Jim Sykes, University of Chicago tion) 9:30 Musical Markets from God: Re- Svanibor Pettan, University of 11:15 Modernism, Postmodernism, and flections from the Gypsy Filadelfia Ljubljana Critical Theory in the History of Churches in Portugal and Spain Ethnomusicological Study Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Lisbon Priwan Nanongkham, Kent State Break, 10:00am-10:15am University KENNESAW 1K What’s in a Name? Representing 11:45 The Middle Ground: Toward a African American Music through Theory of Musical Genre and Cultural and Industry Labels Session 2 10:15am–12:15pm Identity Jonathan Dueck, University of Mary- Chair: Mellonee Burnim, Indiana land at College Park University GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH 2A Atlanta, Georgia, the South SHERWOOD 8:30 Cloaking Difference in African American Religious Music Genres Chair: Marva Carter, Georgia State University 2C Music in a Variety of Christian Contexts Mellonee Burnim, Indiana University 10:15 Sacred Harp Revival and Reli- Chair: Terry Miller, Kent State University gious Revival: The Atlanta Baptist 9:00 “Coming to Voice”: Black Women 10:15 Ethnomusicology in the Study of the Tabernacle and Its Association and the Politics of Naming in Maronite Christian Liturgical Chant with the United Sacred Harp Women-Identified Music Musical Association, 1904-1912 Guilnard Moufarrej, University of Eileen M. Hayes, University of California at Los Angeles Duncan Vinson, Suffolk University North Texas 10:45 “I Sing, Therefore I Am”: An 10:45 The Land Where “Crunk” Is King: 9:30 Marginalizing and Mainstreaming Investigation of Church Music Constructing and Negotiating Hip Black Popular Music: An Interpre- Education Programs as Mecha- Hop in Atlanta tation of Marketing Labels nisms for Identity Construction Michael Barnes, University of Califor- Portia Maultsby, Indiana University and Social Change in Ukraine nia at Berkeley Stephen Benham, Duquesne Univer- FULTON sity 11:15 “The South Got Somethin’ to Say”: 1L The Western Pacific Race, Region, and the Rise of 11:15 “Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Atlanta’s Rap Industry Chair: Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois Sing”: Music Making in Predomi- at Urbana-Champaign Darren Elliott Grem, University of nantly Black Mega Churches in Georgia 8:30 Musik Kontemporer and the Analy- Los Angeles, California Birgitta J. Johnson, University of Cali- sis of Balinese Music 11:45 Marked Voices: Recognition, Per- fornia at Los Angeles Andrew McGraw, Wesleyan Uni- formed Authority, and the South- versity ern Accent in Sacred Harp Singing 11:45 Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Kiri Miller, Harvard University 9:00 Performing Identity at Festivals: Christian Worship Music as Gen- An Australian Encounter with Japa- eral Market Commodity nese Music David Horace Perkins, Vanderbilt Kimi Coaldrake, University of Adelaide University

9:30 Musical Structure and Cosmology: Principles Underlying Ngarinyin Junba Composition/Performance Sally Treloyn, University of Sydney Thursday, November 17, 2005 SEM Newsletter 19

ATLANTA MARIETTA ARDMORE 2D Forum/Roundtable 2G Musical Cultures of Mexico 2I Composers on Four Continents

10:15 Divine Inspiration, Devotional Chair: Steven Loza, University of Chair: Fred Lieberman, University of Restraint: Music and Islam in In- California at Los Angeles California at Santa Cruz donesia 10:15 “My Mother Is Gone”: Spiritual 10:15 Where Have All the “True” Musi- Chair: David Harnish, Bowling Green Singing and Collective Identity cians Gone? Conversations with State University, and Anne K. among the Mascogos (Black Semi- Abelardo Vásquez Rasmussen, College of William noles from Coahuila, Mexico) Javier F. León, Tulane University and Mary Alejandro L. Madrid, University of Presenters: David Harnish, Bowling Green Texas at Austin 10:45 Suppression and Resurrection of Two State University; Birgit Berg, Commemorative Compositions by Brown University; Anne K. 10:45 The Estilo Bravio of Lucha Reyes: N. Z. Nayo: A Ghanaian Composer Rasmussen, College of William The Creation of Feminist Con- Prevails under the Hegemonies of and Mary; Charles Capwell, sciousness via the Cancion His Nation’s Cultural Politics University of Illinois at Urbana- Ranchera George Worlasi Kwasi Dor, Univer- Champaign; Judith Becker, Antonia Garcia-Orozco, California sity of Mississippi University of Michigan State University at Northridge GEORGIA 11:15 The Music of Ahmed Adnan Saygun 11:15 Mariachi Musical Genres and the and the Dilemma of Nationalism and 2E Creative Processes of Korean Music Performance of Mexicanidad Modernity in Turkey (Sponsored by the SEM at 50 Local (1930-1945) Kathryn Woodard, Texas A&M Uni- Arrangements Committee) Don Henriques, University of Texas versity Chair: Tong Soon Lee, Emory University at Austin 11:45 Re-creating America in Music: The 10:15 Looking Back on Fifty Years of 11:45 The American Academic Mariachi WPA Composers’ Forum Neo-Traditional Music in Korea Movement YouYoung Kang, Scripps College Hwang Byungki, Ewha Women’s Uni- Lauryn Salazar, University of Cali- versity fornia at Los Angeles PEACHTREE 2J “Music of the People”: The Construc- 10:45 Creative Processes in P’ansori ROSWELL tion, Production, and Dissemination Story-Singing and Opera 2H Echoes of Al-Andalus: Music, Oral- of National Identities through Music Andrew Killick, University of Sheffield ity, Identity, Nostalgia (Sponsored Chair: Nancy Elizabeth Currey, University of by the Society for Arab Music Re- California at Santa Barbara 11:15 New Directions for Western-Style search) Compositions in Korea 10:15 We Interrupt This Salsa Concert to Jinmi Huh Davidson, University of Chair: Jonathan H. Shannon, Hunter College, CUNY Bring You Some Autochthonous Folk North Carolina at Chapel Hill Music: Music and Nation Building 11:45 Discussant: Robert C. Provine, Uni- 10:15 A Tradition of Teaching a Tradi- during Panama’s Centennial versity of Maryland at College Park tion: Orality and Literacy in the Francesca Rivera, University of Cali- Moroccan Âla fornia at Berkeley ANSLEY M. Ikraam Abdu-Noor, Yale Univer- 2F Forum/Roundtable sity 10:45 Music Historiography in Post-1949 Taiwan: Negotiating Identity 10:15 Emergent Issues and New Direc- 10:45 Uncovering Al-Andalus in Colo- through Music History tions for Ethnomusicological nial Algeria: Music and Text, 1855- Hui-Hsuan Sylvia Chao, University Work (Sponsored by the Student 1905 of Michigan Concerns Committee) Jonathan Glasser, University of Michi- Chair: Sonia Tamar Seeman, University gan 11:15 Performing Nostalgia for an In- of California at Santa Barbara vented History: Nationalism in 11:15 Andalusian Legacies: Theorizing Uzbek Musical Institutions Presenters: Adriana Helbig, Columbia Musical Memory Cultures University; Martha Mavroidi, Tanya H. Merchant Henson, Univer- University of California at Los Jonathan H. Shannon, Hunter Col- sity of California at Los Angeles Angeles; Jason Stanyek, lege, CUNY 11:45 The Voice of Syria: Music and the University of Richmond; Sonia 11:45 The Cultural Politics of Andalusian Development of a National Iden- Tamar Seeman, University of th California at Santa Barbara Music in Contemporary Spain tity in Late 20 Century Syria Dwight Reynolds, University of Cali- Nancy Elizabeth Currey, University fornia at Santa Barbara of California at Santa Barbara 20 SEM Newsletter Thursday, November 17, 2005

KENNESSAW 2:00 African or Andean: Origin Myths Session 3 1:30pm–3:30pm 2K Medical Ethnomusicology (I): Mu- and Musical Performance in the sic and HIV/AIDS in Africa Cradle of Black Peru GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Heidi C. Feldman, University of Chair: Gregory Barz, Vanderbilt University 3A Ethnography and History in the California at San Diego 10:15 Contemporary Uses of the Musical Study of Instruments 2:30 The Tenth Island: Azorean Wind Arts in Botswana’s HIV/AIDS Health Chair: Margaret Kartomi, Monash University Bands and Transnational Identity Education Initiatives: The Case of the Gary Pritchard, University of Cali- Radio Serial Drama Makgabaneng 1:30 Clappers and Tempo in Cambo- fornia at Irvine Abimbola Cole, University of Califor- dia, China, and Korea nia at Los Angeles Chun In-Pyong, Chung-Ang Uni- 3:00 Recreating Instruments and Iden- versity tities: The Revival of the Chilean 10:45 Tears Run Dry: Coping with AIDS Rabel through Music in Zimbabwe 2:00 Thum Nyatiti: Transformation of Emily Pinkerton, University of Ric Alviso, California State University the Luo Lyre of Kenya Texas at Austin at Northridge Everett Shiverenje Igobwa, York University ATLANTA 11:15 “Get Ready for a Message!” Music 3D Chinese Music in Past and Present and HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya 2:30 African American Instrument Kathleen (Noss) Van Buren, Univer- Adoption and Adaptation: Evi- Chair: Nancy Guy, University of California sity of California at Los Angeles dence from Music Archeology and at San Diego Ethnomusicology FULTON Mark Howell, Fordham University 1:30 Melodic Conformity and Depar- 2L Film ture: Realization of the Baban Model 3:00 Casting a Sounding Tomorrow? An in the Chinese Zheng Repertoire 10:15 Dance in the Polish Tatras: An Anthropological Approach to the Study Gloria Wong, University of British Instructional DVD of Musical Futures: The Case of the Columbia Presenter: Timothy J. Cooley, University Qin, the Chinese Seven-Stringed Zither of California at Santa Barbara Tsai Tsan-huang, Nanhua Uni- 2:00 Aircraft, Horse-Carts, Western Art Music, and Confucian Morality in PIEDMONT versity Modern Chinese Music 2M Poster Sessions (Simultaneous) GRAND BALLROOM NORTH (1920s-1930s) Note Time: 10:30am–12:30pm 3B Commemorative Roundtable Joys Cheung, University of Michigan 10:30 Globalization and Local Music- 1:30 Perspectives from Five Decades: Mem- 2:30 Music for the Mediated Masses: Making in Micronesia: A Media bers of SEM Who Have Joined in Each Crossover Dreams (and Night- Survey Decade since 1955 Contribute Their mares) in the Packaging of Chi- David Huron, Ohio State University Thoughts on the History of SEM nese Instrumental Music Chair: Ruth Stone, Indiana University J. Lawrence Witzleben, Chinese Rejuvenating the African Musical University of Hong Kong Bow in India: The Sidi Malunga Presenters: Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Char- Project (Sponsored by the Ap- 3:00 “Plucking the Winds” and “Strum- lotte J. Frisbie, Southern Illinois plied Ethnomusicology Section) ming the Soul” in Chaozhou: University at Edwardsville; Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, University of Musical Authenticity and Identity Deborah Wong, University of California at Los Angeles Politics within a Regional Chinese California at Riverside; Travis Instrumental Tradition HABERSHAM Jackson, University of Chicago; 12:00pm–6:00 pm David Pruett, Middle Tennessee Mercedes M. Dujunco, New York Exhibits Open State University University SHERWOOD GEORGIA Lunch Block, 12:15pm–1:30 pm 3C Iberian Topics in Europe and the 3E Metropolitan Imaginations versus HIGHLANDS New World Peripheral Discourses: World 12:30pm–1:30pm Ethnomusicologies and Cultural Dance Section Business Meeting Chair: Dale Olsen, Florida State University Politics 1:30 Change and Tradition in the Tra- MORNINGSIDE Chair: Ana María Ochoa, Columbia University ditional Songs from the Northeast 12:30pm–1:30pm of Venezuela: Approaches to Eth- 1:30 African Musicology of Ethnomusicol- Archiving Committee Business Meeting nomusicological Research in Ven- ogy? Contestation in the Scholarship ezuela of “‘African’ Musical Cultures” WOODSTOCK Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza, 12:30pm–1:30pm Sofia Barreto Rangel, LACITO/Uni- Makerere University Audio Visual Committee Meeting versity of Rennes 2 Thursday, November 17, 2005 SEM Newsletter 21

2:00 Worlds of Ethnomusicologies: ROSWELL PEACHTREE Toward an Understanding of In- 3H Music and Traumatic Experience 3J Musical Cultures of Northern Europe donesian Popular Music Discourse Andrew Weintraub, University of Chair: Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chair: Caroline Bithell, University of Pittsburgh Chicago Manchester 1:30 Official Truths, Sung Memories: 1:30 Vernacular Performance, Commu- 2:30 Ethonmusicology and Social The Canción Social Ayacuchana nity, and Cultural Representation: Movements and the Peruvian Truth and Rec- The Concert Party Tradition in Carlos Sandroni, Federal Univer- onciliation Commission North-East Scotland sity of Pernambuco Jonathan Ritter, University of Cali- Ian Russell, University of Aberdeen fornia at Riverside 3:00 Genealogies of Aurality, Cultural 2:00 Complicity versus Critique: The Politics and Disciplinary Histories 2:00 Refugees and Sacred Performance Reworking of the Anti-Fascist in Latin America in a “Liberated Zone” Master Narrative in the Yiddish Ana María Ochoa, Columbia Uni- Toni Shapiro-Phim, Merion Sta- Music Scene of the GDR versity tion, Pennsylvania Rita Ottens, City University, London ANSLEY 2:30 “Where Shall I Go?” Music of Jew- 2:30 When Swedish Musicians Get 3F Forum/Roundtable ish Displaced Persons Territorial: Laying Claim to the National and International in Pro- 1:30 Applied Ethnomusicology in the Bret Werb, U.S. Holocaust Memo- vincial Struggles over Music-Cul- Southeastern United States (Spon- rial Museum tural Legitimacy sored by the Applied Ethnomusi- 3:00 Singing the Public Secret: Love cology Section) David Kaminsky, Harvard University Songs among South Korean Survi- Chair: Mark Puryear, National Council vors of Japanese Military Sexual for the Traditional Arts 3:00 Sámi Popular Music and Identity Slavery in the New Millennium Presenters: Laurie Kay Sommers, South Joshua D. Pilzer, University of Rebekah E. Moore, Indiana Uni- Georgia Folklife Project; Chicago versity Ann McCleary. University of West Georgia; David ARDMORE KENNESAW Brose, John C. Campbell 3I Rising to the Challenge of Writing 3K Medical Ethnomusicology (II): Mu- Folk School; Robert Stone, Women into Jazz History sic, Health, and Healing in Cultural Florida Folklife Program; and Clinical Contexts Terence Liu, National Chair: Carol A. Muller, University of Endowment for the Arts Pennsylvania Chair: Benjamin Koen, Florida State University MARIETTA 1:30 South African Singer Virtually 3G Recording Technology in Studio Connected to Billie Holiday 1:30 Imbalu: HIV and the Performance and Performance Carol A. Muller, University of Penn- of Adult-Male Circumcision Ritu- sylvania als in Uganda Chair: Leslie Gay, Jr., University of Gregory Barz, Vanderbilt Univer- Tennessee 2:00 Sarah Vaughan after Hours: Rede- sity 1:30 Gender and Collaboration as Negoti- fining Vocal Virtuosity ating Strategies in an American Re- Elaine Hayes, University of Penn- 2:00 “Go Down, Blood!” Native cording Studio sylvania Rainforest Music Therapy among J. Meryl Krieger, Indiana University the Warao of Venezuela 2:30 Gendered Spaces: Women Musi- Dale Olsen, Florida State University 2:00 Tear Down the Wall: Recording cians on the British Jazz Scene Studios and the Dissolution of the Hilary Moore, Royal College of Music 2:30 The Children’s Happiness Integra- Control Room Divide tive Music Project (CHIMP): To- Alan Williams, Brown University 3:00 Discussant: Scott De Veaux, Uni- ward a Medical Ethnomusicology versity of Virginia of Autism Spectrum Disorders 2:30 Vinyl Art: The Improvisation of DJs Michael Bakan, Florida State Uni- Mark E. Perry, University of Kansas versity

3:00 Going Electric: Sound Systems and 3:00 Cognitive Flexibility and Religious Social Systems in San Antonio de Coping: Transforming Stress and Pintuyacu Depression through Falak Perfor- Kathryn Metz, University of Texas mance at Austin Benjamin Koen, Florida State Uni- versity 22 SEM Newsletter Thursday, November 17, 2005

FULTON SHERWOOD ANSLEY 3L Lecture/Demonstrations 4C Performance 4F Musicologies: Brazilian History and Perspectives 1:30 Lecture-Recital of Works by Com- 3:45 The “Live-ness” of the Transatlantic posers of African Descent: Repeti- Dialogue: Meet the Morans, A Gullah Chair: Samuel Araujo, Federal University tive Patterns and Their Use in Family of Coastal Georgia of Rio de Janeiro Selected Piano Pieces Presenter: Cynthia Schmidt, University 3:45 Mario de Andrade’s Contribution Presenter: Myrna Capp, Seattle Pacific of North Texas to Brazilian Ethnomusicology University ATLANTA Flávia Toni, University of São Paulo 2:30 Rhythmic Archetypes in Music 4D Music, Dance, Identity, and the Traditions of West Africa and the Transnational “Gaze” of the Other 4:15 Another Face of Ethnomusicology: Diaspora Some Case Studies from Brazil Chair: Peter Manuel, CUNY Graduate Presenter: James Burns, SUNY at Oliveira Pinto, University of São Paulo Center Binghamton 3:45 Race and Nation-Building in Two 4:45 Music, Culture and the Ethnomu- Latin American National Folk sicological Dilemma: An Anthro- Dance Companies pological Study about American Ethnomusicology (1950-1970) Break, 3:30pm-3:45pm Sydney Hutchinson, New York Uni- versity Rafael Jose de Menezes Bastos, Federal University of Santa 4:15 Contrabanding the Corrido: The Catarina Session 4 3:45pm–5:15pm Narcocorrido and the Spanish MARIETTA Imagination GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Catherine Ragland, CUNY Gradu- 4G Marching Band Culture 4A Music and Current Issues in the ate Center Chair: Kimberly Bohannon, Indiana Muslim Middle East University 4:45 Tourism Is Our Business: The Changed Chair: Ali Jihad Racy, University of Role of Calypso in Jamaica 3:45 Negotiating Gendered Identity within California at Los Angeles Daniel Neely, New York University the University Marching Band Kimberly Marshall Bohannon, In- 3:45 The Stones We Throw Are Rhymes: GEORGIA diana University Ethnic Engagements, Resistance 4E Irish Music at Home and Abroad Rap, and the Poetics of Palestin- 4:15 Fraternal and Sororal Affiliation within ian Identities in Israel Chair: James Cowdery, RILM Abstracts the Collegiate Marching Band David McDonald, University of Il- of Music Literature Katherine H. Baker, Boise State linois at Urbana-Champaign 3:45 The Bodhran: Evolution during University the Twentieth Century 4:15 “Allah Knows Best”: Music amid 4:45 Marching Drum Lines in the United Brian Holder, University of Florida the Contemporary Islamic Funda- States mentalisms and Other Revivals Erin Barbour, Indiana University Takihiro Aoyagi, Gifo University 4:15 The Language of Internal Exile: An Irish Musical Enclave within ROSWELL Ireland 4:45 Songs after Death: Martyrdom, 4H Performing Women: New Research Music, and Emotion in Palestine Sean Williams, Evergreen State College on Gender in Latin American Music Jennifer Sinnamon, Queen’s Uni- (Sponsored by the Section on the versity, Belfast 4:45 Mediating the Divide: Irish Tradi- Status of Women) GRAND BALLROOM NORTH tional Song in the World Music Chair: Frederick Moehn, SUNY at Stony 4B President’s Roundtable Market Brook Susan Motherway, University of 3:45 Ethnomusicology by (M)any Other Limerick 3:45 Performing Femininity: The Construc- Name(s) tion of Female “Latin Americans” in Chair: Timothy Rice, University of the UK through Voice and Body California at Los Angeles, SEM Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, University President College, Winchester, UK After brief opening statements from a 4:15 Engendering Samba: Disciplining variety of perspectives by Judith Becker, Bodies and Shaping Identities Patricia Campbell, and Yosihiki Carla Brunet, University of Cali- Tokumaru, all present are invited to fornia at Berkeley discuss the topic 4:45 Pure Sex Frederick Moehn, SUNY at Stony Brook Thursday, November 17, 2005/Friday, November 18, 2005 SEM Newsletter 23

ARDMORE 4:45 Danser sur les doigts: Moving to WOODSTOCK 4I Korea and Tibet Music the Acadian Way 7:00pm–8:00pm Mylene Ouellette, University of Lim- Crossroads Project on Diversity, Differ- Chair: Robert Provine, University of erick ence, and Underrepresentation Busi- Maryland at College Park ness Meeting FULTON 3:45 New National Music, Modern Elite, 4L National and Ethnic Identity GRAND BALLROOM NORTH and Distinction: Representation 8:00pm–10:00pm of Kayagûm Shin’gok Performance Chair: Svanibor Pettan, University of Concert of Korean Music in Contemporary South Korea Ljubljana Hee-sun Kim, National University FULTON of Singapore 3:45 National Symbolism and Cultural Reality: Denial of Musical Diver- 8:00pm–10:00pm sity in Georgia (Caucasus) Society for Arab Music Research Busi- 4:15 The Voice of Pathos: Korean ness Meeting Kisaeng and Their Role in P’ansori Nino Tsitsishvili, Monash Univer- sity Performance MORNINGSIDE Ju-Yong Ha, CUNY Graduate Cen- 8:00pm–10:00pm ter 4:15 “Our Ethnic Music”: Musical Con- struction of Ethnic Identity among Association for Chinese Music Research Business Meeting 4:45 The Serpent Notation of the the Central Asian Turks in Sakyapa: The Link between Ti- Northwest China betan Buddhist Chant Manuals Chuen-Fung Wong, University of FRIDAY, NOV. 18 California at Los Angeles and the Twelfth-Century “Treatise Breakfast Block, 7:00am–8:30am on Music” by Sa-skya Pandita Alice Egyed, Eotvos University, 4:45 Chinese in Indonesia: Perceptions Budapest and Representations in New Com- PIEDMONT positions at ISI Denpasar 7:00am–8:00am PEACHTREE Bethany Collier, Cornell Univer- Applied Ethnomusicology Section Busi- 4J Laments: Ethnographic and Scientific sity ness Meeting Approaches PIEDMONT HIGHLANDS Chair: Jane Sugarman, SUNY at Stony 4M Poster Sessions (Simultaneous) 7:00am–8:00am Brook Chapters Meeting Note Time: 3:30pm–5:30pm 3:45 With a Voice like Thunder: Functions 3:30 The Crooked Road: Virginia’s MORNINGSIDE of Female Lamentation in Corsica Heritage Music Trail (Sponsored 7:00am–8:00am Ruth Emily Rosenberg, University by the Applied Ethnomusicology Section on the Status of Women Busi- of Pennsylvania Section) ness Meeting Cheryl A. Tobler, University of 4:15 Songs of Strength and Sorrow: Maryland at College Park WOODSTOCK Identity and Grief Governed by 7:00am–8:00am Lobi Funeral Music The Ethnographic Thesaurus: A Publications Advisory Committee Meeting Michael B. Vercelli, University of Multidisciplinary Project Arizona Jill Ann Johnson, University of LOBBY Washington 7:30am–4:00pm 4:45 Decoding Lament in the Brain Registration and Body Margarita Mazo and Kristen Hol- Evening Block, 5:15pm-10:00pm HABERSHAM land, Ohio State University 8:00am–6:00pm Exhibits Open KENNESAW GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH 4K The World of Dance 5:30pm-7:30pm Welcome Reception Chair: Joanna Bosse, Bowdoin College Hosted by Robert A. Paul, Dean of 3:45 The Rural Square Dance: Surviv- Emory College and Charles Howard ing Under the Radar Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the De- James Kimball, SUNY at Geneseo partment of Music at Emory University. Music performances by Emory Univer- 4:15 Removing Barriers: Participatory sity Jazz Ensemble, directed by Gary Action Research with a Dance Group Motley. of Differently Abled Women Hanna Väätäinen, Åbo Akademi 6:15 Presentations by Timothy Rice, University SEM President, and others 24 SEM Newsletter Friday, November 18, 2005

ATLANTA 9:30 Categorically Speaking: Reassess- Session 5 8:30am–10:00am 5D Indian Music: Reconsiderations ing Genre Theory and Ethnomu- sicology GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Chair: Richard Widdess, SOAS, University Heather Sparling, Queen’s Uni- of London 5A History of Ethnomusicology in the USA versity, Canada Chair: Doris Dyen, Rivers of Steel 8:30 Gesture in Hindustani Vocal Music MARIETTA Matthew Rahaim, University of National Heritage Area 5G Three Case Studies of Musical Change California at Berkeley in the Negro Spiritual 8:30 American Fiddle Music Research: The Contributions of Samuel P. 9:00 Tadinginatom: Solkattu and the Chair: Sandra Graham, University of Bayard Scholarship on South Indian Music California at Davis Carl Rahkonen, Indiana Univer- Douglass Fugan Dineen, Wesleyan sity of Pennsylvania University 8:30 Transformation as Survival Strat- egy: Minstrelized Spirituals 9:00 Which Side Are You On? Ethno- 9:30 Trumping the Narratives of Trans- Sandra Graham, University of musicology and the Rise of Singer- mission: Learning Hindustani Clas- California at Davis Songwriters sical Music with Recordings Chris McDonald, York University Justin Scarimbolo, University of 9:00 Transforming to Preserve: The California at Santa Barbara Concert Spirituals of Harry T. 9:30 Forty-four Years (and Counting) Burleigh of South Indian Music and Dance GEORGIA Jean Snyder, Edinboro University at Wesleyan University 5E Music of First Nations Cultures Joseph M. Getter, Wesleyan University 9:30 Nathaniel Dett’s Concert Trans- Chair: Victoria Levine, Colorado College formation of the African American GRAND BALLROOM NORTH Spiritual 8:30 Traditional Indigenous Knowl- Ann Sears, Wheaton College 5B History and Future in Latin American edge: An Ethnographic Study of Ethnomusicology Its Application in the Teaching ROSWELL and Learning of Traditional Inuit Chair: John Schechter, University of 5H Islands in the Pacific Ocean California at Santa Cruz Drum Dances in Arviat, Nunavut Mary E. Piercey, Memorial Uni- Chair: Amy Stillman, University of 8:30 Fifty Years of Ethnomusicological versity of Newfoundland Michigan Research in Peru: The Quechua Community of Q’eros 9:00 Singing through Urban Poverty 8:30 Performing Okinawa: Identity Holly Wissler, Florida State University Klisala Harrison, York University Construction and the Recontextu- alization of Traditional Perform- 9:00 Latin American Music in the His- 9:30 Public and Intimate Sociability in ing Arts tory of SEM. First Nations and Métis Fiddling Henry Johnson, University of Otago Beth K. Aracena, Eastern Menno- Byron Dueck, Columbia College, nite University Chicago 9:00 Minstrelsy and Mimesis at the Royal Hawaiian Theatre: African-Ameri- 9:30 New Developments in Central ANSLEY can Music and Its Simulacra in American Ethnomusicology 5F A Variety of Approaches to Analysis Nineteenth-Century Honolulu Janet L. Sturman, University of James Revell Carr, University of Arizona Chair: Barbara Smith, University of California at Santa Barbara Hawai‘i at Manoa SHERWOOD 9:30 What’s So Funny about a Coup 8:30 “Double Takes”: Complexities of 5C Forum/Roundtable d’État? A Deposed Hawaiian Meanings Associated with Re- Queen’s Comic Opera gional Dance Tune Categories in C. K. Szego, Memorial University 8:30 Diverse Voices 2005 (Sponsored Eastern Newfoundland of Newfoundland by the Crossroads Project on Di- Kelly Best, Memorial University of versity, Difference, and Under- Newfoundland representation) Chair: Kyra D. Gaunt, New York 9:00 A Neglected Ethnomusicological University Research Area: Body Percussion All present are invited to discuss our and Movement interactions in the field, in the class- Margaret Kartomi, Monash Uni- room, and relative to the politics within versity our programs Friday, November 18, 2005 SEM Newsletter 25

ARDMORE 9:30 Pleading His Case: “Titiman” Flores Lunch Block, 12:15pm-1:30pm 5I We’ll Understand It Better By and By: on Self-Piracy as Preservation in Diverse Representations of Contem- Punta Rock PIEDMONT porary Gospel Music Oliver Greene, Georgia State Uni- 12:30pm–1:30pm versity Gender and Sexualities Taskforce Busi- Chair: Emmett G. Price III, Northeastern ness Meeting University FULTON 5L Music in Opposition and Integration 8:30 Diverse, Yet Divine: The Inter- HIGHLANDS in Africa action(s) of Gospel and Classical 12:30pm–1:30pm Music Chair: Ingrid Monson, Harvard University Special Interest Group for the Music of Horace J. Maxile, Jr., University of Iran and Central Asia Business Meeting North Carolina at Asheville 8:30 Themes for African Drums: Kofi Ghanaba’s Conception of Afro Jazz MORNINGSIDE 9:00 Instrumental Gospel Music: Is it and the Development of Avant 12:30pm–1:30pm Gospel or Jazz? Garde, Free, Modern, and Post- Careers and Professional Development Emmett G. Price III, Northeastern modern Jazz Committee Business Meeting University Kwasi Ampene, University of Colo- rado at Boulder WOODSTOCK 9:30 One Gospel Nation under a 12:30pm–1:30pm Groove: Exploring the influence 9:00 Amabinneplaas, Chizboys, and Association for Korean Music Research of Hip Hop-Influenced Gospel Majitas: Black Identities in South Business Meeting Tammy L. Kernodle, Miami Uni- African Popular Music versity, Ohio Rafi Aliya Crockett, Northwestern University PEACHTREE GRAND BALLROOM NORTH & SOUTH 5J Perspectives on Healing 9:30 Regionalization and Globalization through Music on Radio in Uganda Chair: Ted Solis, Arizona State University Lois Ann Anderson, University of Plenary Session Wisconsin at Madison 1:30pm–3:30pm 8:30 “A World of Difference”: Peda- gogy and Performance in the Au- Perspectives of the History of tistic Music Classroom Ethnomusicology: Approaches Sarah K. Arthur, New York Break, 10:00am-10:15am from around the World (II)

9:00 Trancing Out: Presentation and Chair: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Perception of the Music of Hassan Harvard University Hakmoun in American Club Cul- GRAND BALLROOM ture NORTH & SOUTH 1:30 Stephen Wild, Australian Romeo Guzman, University of National University California at Los Angeles Plenary Session 2:00 J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Uni- 10:15am–12:15pm versity of Ghana 9:30 Woven Songs of the Amazon Barrett H. Martin, University of 2:30 Samuel Araujo, Federal Perspectives of the History of Eth- University of Rio de Janeiro New Mexico nomusicology: Approaches from around the World (I) 3:00 Beverley Diamond, Memo- KENNESAW rial University of New- 5K Central America and the Caribbean foundland Chair: Ellen Koskoff, Eastman Chair: Robin Moore, Temple University School of Music 8:30 Creolization, Transnationalism, 10:15 Bonnie Wade, University of and Diaspora in Contemporary California at Berkeley Break, 3:30pm-3:45pm Garifuna Music 10:45 Albrecht Schneider, Univer- Liam McGranahan, Brown Uni- sity of Hamburg versity 11:15 David P. McAllester, Wes- 9:00 Recording the Impossible: Hai- leyan University tian Rara and Structures of Com- 11:45 Yosihiko Tokumaru, Ocha- mon Difference nomizu University, Tokyo Michael Largey, Michigan State University 26 SEM Newsletter Friday, November 18, 2005

GRAND BALLROOM NORTH ATLANTA ANSLEY Special Session, 3:45pm–5:45pm 6C Dance and Domination (Sponsored 6E Hip Hop on Three Continents by the Section on the Status of Informal Memorials Chair: Gordon Thompson, Skidmore Women and the Section on Dance) 3:45 Remembering Gerard H. Béhague College (1937-2005) Chair: Carol M. Babiracki, Syracuse University 3:45 Sharing Hip Hop Cultures: The John Schechter, presiding Case of Nigerians and African 3:45 The Refinement of Sukeroku: Americans 4:45 Remembering Ki Mantle Hood Shaping Masculinity, Sexuality and Stephanie Shonekan, Columbia (1918-2005) Violence in Japanese Dance College, Chicago Bonnie Wade, presiding Jay Keister, University of Colorado at Boulder 4:15 From “The Gallery of Polish Kings” to Hiphopolo: Polish Hip-hop as 4:15 To Lead and Follow: Gender, a Mirror of Transformation from Dominance, and Connection in Socialism to Capitalism Ballroom Dance Renata Pasternak-Mazur, Rutgers Joanna Bosse, Bowdoin College University

4:45 Female Shell Shakers: Their Pivotal 4:45 Hip-Hop and Politics: The Struggle Role in Native American Stomp Dance on the Ground and in the Sound Paula Conlon, University of Okla- Christina Zanfagna, University of Session 6 3:45pm–5:45pm homa California at Los Angeles

GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH 5:15 Power Moves: Nacni Performances 5:15 Themes of Heroism in Hip-Hop In and Out of the Public Eye Music: The Case of Tupac Shakur 6A SEM Composers Present Their Music Carol M. Babiracki, Syracuse Uni- Cheryl L. Keyes, University of Cali- Chair: Stephen Blum, CUNY Graduate versity fornia at Los Angeles Center GEORGIA MARIETTA 3:45 Musical Thoughts and Thoughtful 6D On Singing Other Peoples’ Songs 6F Into the Heart of Europe—Traveling Musics: A Self-Reflexive Profile Musics, Traveling Identities: Reports Chair: Robert Garfias, University of Ali Jihad Racy, University of Cali- from Germany fornia at Los Angeles California at Irvine Chair: Raimund Vogels, University of 4:15 Performing Compositional Processes 3:45 Musical Magpies and Secular Pil- Music and Drama, Hanover grims: The Politics and Poetics of Evan Rapport, CUNY Graduate Singing Other People’s Songs 3:45 Between Leitkultur and Überfrem- Center Caroline Bithell, University of dung: Musical Ethnography in Contemporary Germany 4:45 Fusion and Ethnomusicology in Manchester My Music Raimund Vogels, University of 4:15 Music as Symbol, Music as Emis- Music and Drama, Hanover Michael Tenzer, University of Brit- sary: The Sri Lankan Kalypso’s ish Columbia Appropriation of Latin American 4:15 Hardly Heard: African Music in and Caribbean Musics for Tourist Eastern Germany before and after 5:15 “Powwow Time for String Quar- Consumption the Wall tet”: Analytical Reflections of an Ethno/Composer Vasana K. de Mel, University of Matthias Eger, University of Music California at Los Angeles and Drama, Hanover Judith Vander, Ojai, California SHERWOOD 4:45 “Give Funkadesi Some”: Embody- 4:45 Approaching Europe: Music as ing Politics in Intercultural Music Strategy 6B Lecture/Demonstrations Performance Martin Ziegler, University of Mu- 4:45 Sacred Harp Singing School Tamara Roberts, Northwestern sic and Drama, Hanover Presenter: Tim Eriksen, Minneapolis, University Minnesota 5:15 Whose Music? Drumming and 5:15 “More Famous than the Beatles”: Dancing Africa in Germany Polish Klezmer Musicians as Ne- Florian Carl, University of Music gotiators of Change and Drama, Hanover Joel E. Rubin, Syracuse University Friday, November 18, 2005 SEM Newsletter 27

ROSWELL KENNESAW 4:45 Luogu Jing and Chinese Contem- 6G Workshop 6J Making “Culture” and Doing “Poli- porary Composers tics” through Musical Practices and Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Rutgers Uni- 3:45 Making Connections: Mentoring Discourses in the Caribbean and versity Networks for Women in Ethno- Latin America musicology (Sponsored by the 5:15 Two Different Ways of Sinicization Section on the Status of Women, Chair: Amanda Minks, Columbia of the Violin in Twentieth-Cen- the Gender and Sexualities University tury China Yu Siu Wah, Chinese University of Taskforce, and the Student Con- 3:45 Interculturality and Performativity Hong Kong cerns Committee) in Song Games among Miskitu Chairs: Elyse Carter Vosen, College of Children on Corn Island St. Scholastica, and Klisala Amanda Minks, Columbia Uni- Harrison, York University versity Evening Block, 5:45pm–10:00pm Presenters: Dawn Avery, Montgomery College; Ingrid Monson, 4:15 Official Versions of History in the LOBBY Harvard University; Roberta Non-Nation: Drumming on Marie- 6:00pm Lamb, Queen’s University, Galante, French West Indies Student Concerns Committee Canada; Kay Shelemay, Ron Emoff, Ohio State University Students will meet in the main lobby for Harvard University; Tara an outing to a nearby restaurant. Browner, University of 4:45 Music, Multiculturalism, and California at Los Angeles; Ethnogenesis: Making the New WOODSTOCK Amy Stillman, University of Black Citizen in Colombia 6:00pm–7:00pm Michigan Michael Birenbaum Quintero, 2006 Local Arrangements Committee ARDMORE New York University and Program Committee Meeting 6H Forum/Roundtable 5:15 Singer-songwriters as Producers ANSLEY 6:00pm–8:00pm 3:45 Reading between the Lines: Eth- of Music and Theory in Latin America Popular Music Section Business Meeting nomusicology and Music Journal- With an invited lecture by Paul Théberge, ism (Sponsored by the Applied Ernesto Donas, CUNY Graduate Center Carleton University: Extending the Mix: Ethnomusicology Section) Technology, Ethnography, and Popular Chair: Lara Pellegrinelli, Harvard University FULTON Music. All interested SEM members are Presenters: Lara Pellegrinelli, Harvard 6K Film invited to attend. University; Felix Contreras, National Public Radio; 3:45 Okinawan Eisa in Osaka HIGHLANDS Elisabeth Vincentelli, Presenter: Yoshitaka Terada, National 6:00pm–8:00pm Features Editor, Time Out Museum of Ethnology, African Music Section Business Meet- New York Osaka ing. With an informal performance by PEACHTREE PIEDMONT Damascus Kafumbe, Ugandan musi- cian 6I Bending, Melding, and Mending Pitches: 6L Traditions and (E)merging Tradi- Hybridity and the Critic’s Voice in African tions in Contemporary Chinese EMORY UNIVERSITY American Art Music Music Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center Chair: Daniel Avorgbedor, Ohio State Chair: Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Rutgers for Performing Arts University University 8:00pm–10:00pm Concert of Gullah Music performed by 3:45 Bending, Melding, and Mending 3:45 Chinese-Western Fusion Concer- the Georgia Sea Islands Singers. Trans- Pitches: Hybridity and the Critic’s tos: An Emerging International portation will be provided. Sponsored Voice in African American Art Music Orchestral Repertoire by the Department of Music, with co- Daniel Avorgbedor, Ohio State Uni- John Winzenburg, Agnes Scott sponsorship from the Center for the versity College Study of Public Scholarship and Pro- gram of African-American Studies at 4:15 African-American Musical Identity in 4:15 Traditional Chinese Music in a Emory University the Eyes of James Reese Europe Changing Contemporary Society: Ann Ommen, Ohio State University An Investigation of the Quantou Village Instrumental Music Asso- 4:45 “Neo-Spiritual” ciation Tracie Parker, Ohio State University Zhang Boyu, Central Conserva- tory of Music, Beijing 5:15 Kay’s “First Nocturne”: An Embodi- ment of Double Consciousness Ken Archer, Ohio State University 28 SEM Newsletter Saturday, November 19, 2005

SATURDAY, NOV. 19 GRAND BALLROOM NORTH 9:00 “If It Sounds Country, That’s What 7B New Perspectives on Old Record- It Is . . .”: Globalization, Mass- LOBBY ing. Mediation, and Country Culture 7:30am-12:00pm Nastia Snider-Simon, University Registration Chair: Daniel Sheehy, Smithsonian of Pennsylvania Folkways Breakfast Block, 7:00am–8:30am 8:30 From Wax Cylinders to Waxing 9:30 “A Musical Hate Crime”: Genre Lyrical. Ethnomusicology or and Geography in Contemporary HIGHLANDS Phonomusicology? Bluegrass 7:00am–8:00am Stephen Cottrell, Goldsmiths Col- Jennie Noakes, University of Penn- Special Interest Group for European lege, University of London sylvania Music Business Meeting GEORGIA 9:00 Old Recordings, New Technologies, MORNINGSIDE and the Study of the Musical Past 7E Rhythmic Signatures: Musical Move- 7:00am–8:00am P. G. Toner, St. Thomas Univer- ment and Identity in the Caribbean Education Section Business Meeting sity, Canada Chair: Rebecca D. Sager, Center for Black Music Research WOODSTOCK 9:30 Recording Culture in/and Ethno- 7:00am–8:00am musicology 8:30 Reconsidering Cinquillo: Move- Editorial Board Meeting Chris Scales, College of William ment and Rhythmic Identity in and Mary Circum-Caribbean Dance-Musics HABERSHAM Rebecca D. Sager, Center for Black 8:00am–4:00pm SHERWOOD Music Research Exhibits Open 7C Music and Dance in Christian Wor- ship in African and African Ameri- 9:00 Tibwa or Not Tibwa: Analyzing a Session 7 8:30am–10:00am can Societies Signature Rhythm Julian Gerstin, Sonoma State and Chair: Jean Ngoya Kidula, University of San Jose State Universities GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Georgia 7A On Founding Fathers of Ethnomusic- 8:30 “The Playful and Spontaneous 9:30 Dominican Rhythmic Symbols of ology Nature of the Sacred”: Musical Identity in Caribbean Perspective Martha Ellen Davis, University of Chair: Judith Becker, University of Style, Collaboration, and Author- Florida Michigan ity in a Contemporary Black Church ANSLEY 8:30 “Tonsinn und Musik”: Erich Moritz David Marcus, Clark Atlanta Uni- von Hornbostel’s Proposals for versity 7F Studies of African American Musics Psychological Examination of Chair: Jacqueline DjeDje, University of “Primitive” People 9:00 “Show the Glory of God”: Produc- California at Los Angeles Lars-Christian Koch, Berlin ing Paradise in Cherubim and Sera- Phonogrammarchiv phim Ritual Performance 8:30 African American Musics in Vicki L. Brennan, University of Scandinavia: Race, Nation, and 9:00 Franjo Ksaver Kuhac (1834-1911) Chicago Displacement among the Founding Fathers of Fabian Holt, University of Copen- Ethnomusicology 9:30 “It’s Another Way of Writing a hagen Zdravko Blazekovic, CUNY Gradu- Letter”: Dance as Theological Dis- ate Center course in the Music of Presbyte- 9:00 “The Same Sweet, Sweet Spirit”: rian Mvano Women in Southern Ring Shouting and the Preserva- 9:30 Mr. Ellis’s Caprice: Alexander J. Malawi tion of Sea Island Heritage Ellis and the Emergence of a New Clara Henderson, Indiana Uni- Laura Beth Schnitker, University Train of Thought versity of Maryland at College Park Jonathan P. J. Stock, University of Sheffield ATLANTA 9:30 “But Early One Sunday Morning”: 7D Country Music and Bluegrass The “Musical” Whoop in African American Sermons Chair: Chris Goertzen, University of Jennifer Ryan, University of Penn- Southern Mississippi sylvania 8:30 Willie, Waylon, and Me: Self- Referentiality and Austin Progres- sive Country Music Travis D. Stimeling, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Saturday, November 19, 2005 SEM Newsletter 29

MARIETTA 9:00 “Reviving” Stereotypes of Asian FULTON 7G Dance in India Women 7L Ethnomusicology and Musical Edu- Eric Hung, Westminster Choir cation at the Tertiary Level Chair: Matthew Allen, Wheaton College, College, Rider University Massachusetts Chair: Lester Monts, University of 9:30 Hard Times: Adult Musicals in Michigan 8:30 Mehfils to Moscow: Women’s 1970s New York Contribution to Kathak Dance 8:30 What Works? Analyzing Approaches Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch Margaret E. Walker, York University to Teaching World Music College, CUNY Andrew Shahriari, Kent State Uni- 9:00 “It’s Our Culture”: Standardizing PEACHTREE versity Punjabi Jhummar Dance 7J Eastern Europe: Contrastive Inter- Gibb Schreffler, University of Cali- 9:00 Challenges to the Euroamericentric pretations fornia at Santa Barbara Ethnomusicological Canon: Alter- Chair: Donna Buchanan, University of natives for Graduate Readings, 9:30 Cultural Democracy or Postcolo- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Theory, and Method nial Pilfering? Dancers’ Contested Steven Loza, University of Califor- Identities 8:30 Marga: Music, Economics, and nia at Los Angeles Andrée Grau, Roehampton Survival in a Twenty-first Century University, London Romanian Village 9:30 Experiencing the “Play” Element Sabina Pauta Pieslak, University as Outsiders of a Musical Tradi- ROSWELL of Michigan tion 7H Analytical Approches to Unmetered C. Victor Fung, University of South Rhythm: Case Studies in North In- 9:00 Reconsidering the Emic-etic in Florida dian Alap Slovenian Folk Music of Remote South Australia Chair: Martin Clayton, Open University, UK Kathryn Gay Hardwick-Franco, University of Adelaide 8:30 “Free Rhythm” in Alap: Perform- Break, 10:00am-10:15am ers’ Perspective 9:30 Musical Analysis Reconsidered: Richard Widdess, SOAS, Univer- Approaching Musical Construc- sity of London tions of Identity Natalie Zelensky, Northwestern 9:00 Tuning in: How Nonlinear System University Dynamics and Experimental Tech- Session 8 10:15am–12:15pm niques Help to Elucidate Bodily KENNESAW Responses to Non-metered Music 7K Musicians in Three American Con- GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Udo Will, Ohio State University texts 8A Forum/Roundtable 9:30 Understanding Rhythm through Chair: Gage Averill, University of Toronto 10:15 Ethnomusicology Archives (I). A Video-Based Analysis of Bodily Look Back at Collections and Col- Movement 8:30 A Love Supreme: Alice Coltrane’s lectors in a Changing Ethnomusi- Martin Clayton, Open University, UK Spirit Journey in Music Timothy P. Kinsella, University of cology (Sponsored by the ARDMORE Washington Archiving Committee) Chair: Judith Gray, American Folklife 7I Gender and Race Representation in Center, Library of Congress Stage and Screen Musicals (Spon- 9:00 “Workin’ Hard, Hardly Workin’/ sored by the Status of Women Sec- Hey Man, You Know Me”: Tom Presenters: Laurel Sercombe, Ethnomusic- tion) Waits and the Theatrics of Mascu- ology Archives, University of linity Washington; Louise Spear, Chair: Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois GRAMMY Archive, National College, CUNY at Urbana-Champaign Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences; Alec McLane, World 8:30 Columbian and Korean Ameri- 9:30 North Carolina Old-Time Fiddler Music Archives, Wesleyan cans in the Land of 10,000 Lakes: Joe Thompson: African American University; John Vallier, UCLA Musical Productions of Female Fiddling Style and Function Ethnomusicology Archive; Youth and International Adop- Amy Wooley, Bowling Green State Judith Gray, American Folklife tion in the American Midwest University Center, Library of Congress Lei Ouyang Bryant, Macalester College 30 SEM Newsletter Saturday, November 19, 2005

GRAND BALLROOM NORTH 11:15 First Nations Music Videos: Is- MARIETTA 8B Workshop sues of Representation 8G Diverse Voices: Music beyond the Janice Esther Tulk, Memorial Univer- Gaze of Ethnomusicology/Musicol- 10:15 John Blacking and the Making of sity of Newfoundland ogy in China and Korea (I) (Spon- Ethnomusicology sored by the Association for Chi- Chair: Marina Roseman, Queen’s 11:45 “Choose Snappy Music to Wear”: nese Music Research and the Asso- University, Belfast Jazzing Up the Modern Woman ciation for Korean Music Research) in Ernst Lubitsch’s The Smiling Presenters: Mícheál Ó’Súilleabháin, Lieutenant (1931) Chair: Frederick Lau, University of University of Limerick; Martin Anna-Lise P. Santella, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Stokes, University of Chicago Chicago; Fiona Magowan, 10:15 Timbre and Voice Quality in Queen’s University, Belfast; GEORGIA xianghua Buddhist Rituals Suzel Ana Reily, Queen’s Hwee-San Tan, SOAS, University of 8E Music and Performance in the South University, Belfast; Marina London Roseman, Queen’s Univer- Asian Diaspora sity, Belfast; Keith Howard, Chair: Alison Arnold, North Carolina 10:45 New Sounds, New Sentiments: In SOAS, University of London State University Search of Change in Musical Aes- SHERWOOD thetics and Contemporary Dis- 10:15 The History of Bhojpuri Song: An courses of Koreanness 8C Europeans Studying Europeans, Its Odyssey across Three Oceans Heather A. Willoughby, Ewha Problems and Promises: Roma Mu- Helen Myers, Canton, Connecticut Women’s University sic Study, in Honor of Bálint Sárosi (Sponsored by the Special Interest 10:45 Performing Indian Music in Cre- 11:15 Decolorizing Korean Music: “Japa- Group for European Music) ole Countries: How Can One Be nese Color” Waesaek and the Chair: Irén Kertész Wilkinson, Roehampton Authentic? Identity Politics in Postcolonial University Monique Desroches, University of Korea Montreal Yamauchi Fumitaka, Academy of 10:15 Europeans Studying Europe: The Korean Studies, South Korea Gypsy Case 11:15 Diasporization and Other Pro- Ursula Hemetek, University of Vienna cesses of Indian American Music 11:45 Religious Music as a Neglected Making in North Carolina Genre in Chinese Musicology 10:45 Hungarian Music or Gypsy Mu- Alison Arnold, North Carolina State Francois Picard, University of Paris- sic? An Old Question Revisited University Sorbonne (Paris IV) Lynn Hooker, Indiana University 11:45 Desi, Inc.: Ten Years of Indian ROSWELL 11:15 The Urban Hungarian Roma American Music and Entertain- 8H Histories of Ethnomusicology (I) (Gypsy) Restaurant String En- ment semble Performance Tradition: Peter Kvetko, University of Texas at Chair: Colleen M. Haas, Indiana Continuity and Change Austin University Eva Kiss, Indiana University ANSLEY 10:15 The Relation of Past and Present in Histories of Ethnomusicology: 11:45 Discussant: Barbara Rose Lange, 8F Forum/Roundtable University of Houston The Chinese Case 10:15 Ethnomusicologists at Work (V) Sue Tuohy, Indiana University ATLANTA (Sponsored by the Applied Eth- 8D Ethnomusicologists Contemplate nomusicology Section) 10:45 Hermann von Helmholtz and the Film and Video Chair: Ric Alviso, California State Invisible Genealogy of Ethnomu- University at Northridge sicology Chair: Charles Capwell, University of Mark Y. Miyake, Indiana University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presenters: Mark Puryear, National Council for the Traditional 11:15 Kategorie or Wertidee? The Early 10:15 The Film Narrator as Ethnomusi- Arts/NEA; John Fenn, Years of the IFMC cologist: A Hollywood Case Study Texas A&M University; James R. Cowdery, RILM Abstracts of Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University Catherine Ragland, CUNY Music Literature Graduate Center 10:45 From Sand Mountain to “Cold 11:45 National Music Scholarship: The Mountain” and Back: Sacred Harp Case of Oman Goes to Hollywood Majid Al-harthy, Indiana University Mirjana Lausevic, University of Min- nesota Saturday, November 19, 2005 SEM Newsletter 31

ARDMORE KENNESAW FULTON 8I History in African Music 8K Ritual Performance: Negotiating 12:30pm-1:45pm Identity through Music The Education Section Forum Chair: Andrew Kaye, Albright College Chair: Jonathan McCollum, University PIEDMONT 10:15 Want the History? Listen to the of Alberta 12:30pm-2:30pm Music: Historical Evidence in Anlo SEM Council Meeting Ewe Traditional Songs 10:15 Music-Making and Ritual Perfor- Kofi J. S. Gbolonyo, University of Pitts- mance: Constructing Identity in HIGHLANDS burgh the Armenian Soorp Badarak 12:30pm–1:45pm Jonathan McCollum, University of Student Concerns Committee Business 10:45 New Music in Old Masks: Explor- Alberta Meeting ing the Art of Lagbaja Oyebade Dosunmu, University of Pitts- 10:45 “Drumming” Ritual Identity in MORNINGSIDE burgh Santeria 12:30pm–1:45pm Kenneth Schweitzer, Washington Col- Ethics Committee Meeting 11:15 Master Musicians to Music Teach- lege All interested SEM members and espe- ers: The Transmission of Ghana- cially students with concerns regarding ian Music 11:15 Secular Ritual in a Sacred Place: ethics issues are invited to attend Sheila J. Feay-Shaw, University of Russian Identity in the Commemo- Wisconsin at Whitewater ration of Vladimir Vysotsky WOODSTOCK Heather Miller, University of Mary- 12:30pm–1:45pm 11:45 As If It’s Always Been There: The land at College Park Society for Asian Music Membership Adoption of the Xylophone Meeting among the Sambla of Burkina 11:45 The Ritual Destruction of the Self Faso and Other Identity in Music at the GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Julie Strand, Wesleyan University Mevlana Festival in Konya, Turkey 12:30pm-1:30pm Victor Vicente, University of Mary- PEACHTREE Pioneers of Ethnomusicology as Compos- land at College Park ers: A Concert Dedicated to Robert Stevenson 8J In Musical Stages: Musical Represen- FULTON Produced by Michael Tenzer, University of tations of the Persianite World in British Columbia (with Steven Everett, Emory Staged Performances (Sponsored by 8L Forum/Roundtable University). Works by John Blacking, Mantle the Special Interest Group for the Hood, William P. Malm, Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Music of Iran and Central Asia) 10:15 Ethnomusicology in the Under- and others graduate Curriculum (Sponsored Chair: John Morgan O’Connell, by the Education Section) University of Limerick Chair: John Hajda, University of Session 9 1:45pm–3:45pm 10:15 Staging a Conflict: The Oratorio California at Santa Barbara Qarabaq Shikestesi in Azerbaijan Presenters: Ann Clements, Pennsylvania GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Inna Naroditskaya, Northwestern State University; Kari Veblen, 9A Forum/Roundtable University University of Western Ontario; Jonathon Grasse, 1:45 Ethnomusicology Archives (II). 10:45 Staging an Alliance: A Turkish California State University “Goodbye, Mr. Phonograph”: Opera on a Persian Theme at Dominguez Hills; Brenda Global Perspectives in the Digital John Morgan O’Connell, University Romero, University of Age (Sponsored by the Archiving of Limerick Colorado at Boulder Committee) PIEDMONT Chair: Laurel Sercombe, University of 11:15 Staging a Ritual: Ta’ziyeh on the Washington International Stage 8M Lecture/Demonstration Presenters: Shubha Chaudhuri, Archives William Beeman, Brown University 10:15 Crow Hops and Mad Stops: Music and Research Centre for and Dance of the Fancy Dance Ethnomusicology, AIIS; Janet 11:45 Staging a Tradition: Performing Presenter: Erik D. Gooding, Minnesota Topp Fargion, World and Qajar Aesthetics in Tehran’s Caba- State University at Moorhead Traditional Music Section, rets British Library Sound Archive; Niloofar Mina, New Jersey City Uni- Lunch Block, 12:15pm-1:45pm Daniel Reed, Archives of versity Traditional Music, Indiana University; Virginia Daniel- PRESIDENTIAL SUITE son, Archive of World Music, 12:30pm–1:30pm Harvard University SEM Board of Directors Meeting 32 SEM Newsletter Saturday, November 19, 2005

GRAND BALLROOM NORTH Presenters: Eric Charry, Wesleyan 2:45 “Akwaaba” (Welcome Back): 9B Forum/Roundtable University; Zoe C. Greeting the Unfinished Migra- Sherinian, University of tions of the African Diaspora in 1:45 Four Decades of South Asian Oklahoma; Su Zheng, the U.S. Music Studies in North America Wesleyan University; Jean Kyra D. Gaunt, New York University Chair: Daniel Neuman, University of Ngoya Kidula, University 3:15 Discussant: Jeffrey A. Summit, Tufts California at Los Angeles of Georgia; Jocelyne Guilbault, University of University Presenters: Robert E. Brown, Center California at Berkeley for World Music; George MARIETTA GEORGIA Ruckert, Massachusetts 9G Diverse Voices: Music beyond the Institute of Technology; 9E Women on the Verge of a Gender Gaze of Ethnomusicology/Musicol- Lorraine Sakata, University Breakdown (Sponsored by the Gen- ogy in China and Korea (II) (Spon- of California at Los Angeles der and Sexualities Taskforce) sored by the Association for Chi- SHERWOOD Chair: Elizabeth Keenan, Columbia nese Music Research and the Asso- ciation for Korean Music Research) 9C New Bulgarian Research on Bulgar- University ian Music (Sponsored by the Spe- Chair: Keith Howard, SOAS, University 1:45 Ladies, Womyn, and Grrls: Polic- cial Interest Group for European of London Music) ing the Borders of Gender and Generation at Women’s Rock 1:45 What’s That sound? Korean Fu- Chair: Timothy Rice, University of Music Festivals sion Music and the Ascendancy California at Los Angeles Elizabeth Keenan, Columbia Univer- of the haegum sity 1:45 The Folk Music of Bulgaria: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Premodern, Modern, Postmodern Wisconsin at Madison 2:15 Asian Women Kick Ass through Lozanka Peycheva, Institute for Folk- Taiko: Japanese Drumming as a 2:15 Celestial Music, Glamorous An- lore, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Medium for Empowerment and gels: Girls Glitzing Up Traditional Community Building Chinese Music 2:15 Folk Music as Pop Music: On Kim Kobayashi, University of British Gramophone Records in Bulgaria Frederick Lau, University of Hawai‘i Columbia in the First Half of the Twentieth at Manoa Century 2:45 Girl on Girl: Bio Queens, Pop 2:45 Contemporary “Traditional” Mu- Ventsislav Dimov, Institute of Art Stud- Music, and Re-radicalizing Drag sic in Korean Radio Broadcast- ies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Rachel Devitt, University of Washing- ing: Its Names, Images, and ton Audience 2:45 Performing Parody: The Music of Yoonhee Chang, Indiana University the Bulgarian Ethnopop Group 3:15 Discussant: Timothy D. Taylor, “Ku-ku Bend” University of California at Los 3:15 Gender and Western Art Music in Claire Levy, Institute of Art Studies, Angeles South Korea Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ANSLEY Okon Hwang, Eastern Connecticut State University 3:15 The Rock Group “Episode” and 9F Musical Diasporas: The Sounds of Its Interpretation of Masters of Afro-Creolité, Wandering Jews, and ROSWELL Bulgarian Rebel-Patriotic Poetry Unfinished African Migrations Rosemary Statelova, Institute of Art 9H Histories of Ethnomusicology (II) Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sci- Chair: Jeffrey A. Summit, Tufts University Chair: Sue Tuohy, Indiana University ences 1:45 Imagining an Afro-Creole Nation; 1:45 Hindu Music from Various Au- ATLANTA The Music of Eugene Mona in thors: A Textual-Historical Study Martinique of the 1980s Aditi Deo, Indiana University 9D Forum/Roundtable Dominique Cyrille, Lehman College, CUNY 1:45 Centering Our Subjects: Non- 2:15 The First “All-India” Music Con- Western Impact on the Forma- ferences and the Advent of Mod- 2:15 The Sound of Two Wanderers tion of Ethnomusicological Ideas ern Indian Musicology Meeting: African Americans, Jews, Chairs: Su Zheng, Wesleyan University, Cleveland Johnson, DePauw Univer- and the Meanings of Diaspora and Jean Ngoya Kidula, University sity Judah Cohen, New York University of Georgia Saturday, November 19, 2005 SEM Newsletter 33

2:45 Representing the Sounds of KENNESAW Ghana: A History of Musical Tran- 9K Toward a National Recording Project Break, 5:30pm-5:45pm scription, 1819-Present for Indigenous Performance in Aus- Paul Schauert, Indiana University tralia Chair: Allan Marett, University of Sydney 3:15 Intellectual Corridors on Conti- GRAND BALLROOM NORTH nuity and Change and Their Im- 1:45 Towards a National Recording Charles Seeger Lecture plications for Scholarship on Project for Indigenous Perfor- 5:45pm-6:45pm Music on the African Diaspora mance in Australia. Colleen M. Haas, Indiana University Allan Marett, University of Sydney Lost Lineages and Neglected ARDMORE Peers: Ethnomusicologists 2:15 Digital Repositories of Minority outside Academia 9I Brazil: Identity, Politics, Resistance Languages and Musics: Implica- Chair: Carlos Sandroni, Federal tions for Research Practice Anthony Seeger University of Pernambuco Linda Barwick, University of Sydney University of California at Los Angeles 1:45 “Samba Is Not Rumba”: Tradition, 2:45 The Role of Knowledge Centres Innovation and Identity on the in Building the National Record- Brazilian Pandeiro ing Project for Indigenous Perfor- Beto Gonzalez, University of Califor- mance in Australia Evening Block, 6:45pm–12:00am nia at Los Angeles Neparrnga Gumbula, Galiwin’ku Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Elcho 2:15 Borrowing from All Sides: Caetano Island, East Arnhem Land Veloso, Popular Music, and Poli- tics in Brazil 3:15 There Is No Point Admiring the GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH Irna Priore, University of North Caro- Flowers if the Roots Are Starving. 7:00pm-9:00pm lina at Greensboro Aaron Corn, University of Sydney SEM 50th Anniversary Banquet

2:45 Resisting Resistance: Reevaluat- FULTON GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH ing the Use of Candomblé’s Mu- 9L Forum/Roundtable 8:30pm–9:30pm sic as a Tool of Black Resistance “Fun Stuff” in Twenty-first Century Brazil 1:45 The SEM Education Section: Con- Master of Ceremonies: Christopher Daniel Joseph Gough, University of tacts, Connections, and Collabo- Waterman, University of California at Georgia rations (Sponsored by the Los Angeles. Education Section) 3:15 Computer Music Technologies, Chair: Terese M. Volk, Wayne State An informal (and improvised) program Empowerment, and Exclusion in University of humor at the expense of ethnomusi- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Presenters: Terese M. Volk, Wayne State cologists and SEM. All are welcome! Gustavo S. Azenha, Barnard College University; J. Bryan Burton, PEACHTREE West Chester University; GRAND BALLROOM NORTH Terry Miller, Kent State 9:30pm–12:00am 9J Workshop University; Patricia Shehan An evening of tango Hosted by Tangueros Emory 1:45 In Memory: African-Style Partici- Campbell, University of patory Performance (Sponsored Washington; Chee Hoo Lum, University of Washington ATLANTA by the African Music Section) 9:30pm–12:00am Chair: Frank Gunderson, Florida State Contemporary Javanese shadow pup- University pet theater: KAM, an interactive play. Presenters: David Locke, Tufts University; Break, 3:45pm-4:00pm Based on the 16th century Javanese Gideon Foli Alorwoyie, legend of Ki Ageng Mangir and the University of North Texas; Faith modern play, Mangir, by Pramoedya Conant, Mount Holyoke HABERSHAM Ananta Toer. Music and design by College; Leigh Creighton, 4:00pm-11:00pm Steve Everett (Emory University); Agbekor Drum and Dance Exhibitor Teardown Dhalang: Midiyanto (University of Cali- Society; Scott Mordecai, Atlanta, fornia at Berkeley); with Emory Gamelan Georgia GRAND BALLROOM NORTH Ensemble and guests 4:00pm- 5:30pm SEM Business Meeting 34 SEM Newsletter Sunday, November 20, 2005

SUNDAY, NOV. 20 SHERWOOD 8:30 The Creation of Multinational 10C Topical Approaches to the History Musical Hybrids as a Means of Breakfast Block, 7:00am–8:30am of Ethnomusicology Cultural Re-unification in the Balkans Chair: Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, University PIEDMONT Katarina Markovic-Stokes, New of California at Los Angeles 7:00am–9:00am England Conservatory SEM Council Meeting 8:30 Meeting the New: What We Can 9:00 Toward a Social Anthropology of Still Learn from the Earliest “Eth- Czech Music, or Martinu’s Second LOBBY nomusicologists” Reburial 8:00am–9:00am Edward Green, Manhattan School Michael Beckerman, New York Registration of Music University PRESIDENTIAL SUITE 9:00 “I’ve Heard That Song Before” 9:30 La era sigue pariendo: The 8:00am–1:00pm Joann W. Kealiinohomoku, Cross- SEM Board of Directors Meeting Transnationalization of Cuban Cultural Dance Resources Popular Song Susan Thomas, University of Georgia 9:30 Lost Impressions: A Recovery of Session 10 8:30am–10:30am Early Orientalist Music Literature 10:00 Re-constructing a “Nation of Sing- Benjamin J. Harbert, University of ers”: Baltic Music and the Chal- California at Los Angeles GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH lenge of History in the Post- Soviet Era 10:00 Folk Melodies, Analytic Cards, and 10A Forum/Roundtable Kevin C. Karnes, Emory University Cybernetic Ethnomusicology: One 8:30 Folkways Records: Assessing the Future in Retrospect ANSLEY Past, Contemplating the Future Anthony Potoczniak, Rice University Chair: Michael Frishkopf, University of 10F Retro Ethno: Using Old Methodolo- Alberta ATLANTA gies in New Scholarship Presenters: Anthony Seeger, University 10D Ethnomusicologists Do It in the Chair: Mark Y. Miyake, Indiana of California at Los Angeles; Field: What We Learn from Musi- University Daniel Sheehy, Smithsonian cal Participant-Observation – Bi- 8:30 Back to the Armchair: Reinstating Folkways; Michael Asch, musicality – That We Cannot Learn Sound Recordings as Information University of Victoria; Regula Otherwise Sources in Ethnomusicology Qureshi, University of Chair: T. M. Scruggs, University of Iowa Ronda Sewald, Indiana Univer- Alberta; Michael Frishkopf, sity University of Alberta 8:30 Bi-Musicality and the Berimbau GRAND BALLROOM NORTH Eric Galm, Trinity College 9:00 Listening for Context in American Dance-Call Records, 1889-1909 10B Basics: Contemplating Fundamen- 9:00 Karnatak Music: A Mrdangam Patrick D. Feaster, Indiana Uni- tal Issues Player’s Perspective versity Chair: Jonathan Stock, University of David Nelson, Wesleyan University Sheffield 9:30 Salvaging the Future from the Past: 9:30 Ways of the Mallet: The Analytical Cross-cultural Comparisons, Arm- 8:30 “Music for Being”: Philosophy, Tool of Embodied Performative Ethnomusicology, and the Cul- chair Ethnomusicology, and Rock Knowledge. and Roll tural Imaginary T. M. Scruggs, University of Iowa Roger W. H. Savage, University of Gabe Skoog, University of Wash- ington California at Los Angeles 10:00 Bi-Musicality Revisited: Performa- tivity and Musicianship in DJ cul- 9:00 Roots 10:00 Retooling the Historic-Geographic ture Method in China: Using Lessons Victor A. Grauer, Pittsburgh, Penn- Kai Fikentscher, Ramapo College sylvania from American Ethnomusicology’s of New Jersey Past to Communicate across 9:30 Pulling the Past and Pushing the GEORGIA Present Boundaries Future in a World of Global Music Jessica Anderson Turner, Indiana 10E Reconstructing Nations, Re-Imag- University Anthony T. Rauche, University of ining Communities: Music and Hartford Post-Socialist Transition 10:00 The Aesthetics of Attenuation Chair: Susan Thomas, University of J. Martin Daughtry, University of Georgia California at Los Angeles Sunday, November 20, 2005 SEM Newsletter 35

MARIETTA ARDMORE KENNESAW 10G Appropriating Modernities: Global 10I Music in Cyberspace: Exploration, 10K Humor, Sexuality, and Reproduc- Sounds in African Cities (Spon- Ownership, Community, and So- tive Freedom: African Women sored by the Popular Music Sec- cial Protest on the Internet (Spon- Speaking through Music and tion and the African Music Sec- sored by the Popular Music Sec- Dance (Sponsored by the African tion) tion) Music Section and the Dance Sec- tion) Chair: Andrew Eisenberg, Columbia Chair: Marc Perlman, Brown University University Chair: Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, Illinois 8:30 Listening in Cyberspace: The In- State University 8:30 Playing with Culture: Swahili Iden- fluence of File-Sharing tity and the Semiotics of Musical Mark Katz, Peabody Institute, 8:30 “Womb Wars”: Dancing for Re- Style in Mombasa Johns Hopkins University productive Liberty Andrew Eisenberg, Columbia Uni- Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, Illinois versity 9:00 Empowerment, Theft, Democracy, State University Greed, and Social Protest: The Moral 9:00 “Soirée Sénégalaise” and Mbalax: Imagination of File- Sharing 9:00 Taking Charge, Making Fun: BaAka Mediating Modernity in Dakar Marc Perlman, Brown University Women Representing Sexuality Nightclubs Michelle Kisliuk, University of Virginia Timothy R. Mangin, St. Lawrence 9:30 Sharing Information, Stealing University Music 9:30 “Hang On!” Dance as Playful Sexu- Jessica Litman, Wayne State Uni- ality among Senegalese Immigrant 9:30 “Down Freedom Avenue”: Jazz versity Women in Los Angeles and the Unmaking of “Race” after Sherri Canon, University of Texas Apartheid 10:00 Do Downloaders Matter? The So- at Austin Brett Pyper, New York University cial Construction of Internet Music Trevor Pinch, Cornell University 10:00 Discussant: Hope Munro Smith, 10:00 Discussant: Louise Meintjes, Duke California State University at Fresno University PEACHTREE FULTON 10J The Southern USA ROSWELL 10L Film 10H La Combinación Perfecta : Ethno- Chair: Jeff Titon, Brown University musicological Perspectives on Latin 8:30 Chandni’s Choice? 8:30 Captain Ricardo and His Sheet Jazz Presenter: Amelia Maciszewski, Austin, Iron Band: Rough Music in Ante- Texas Chair: David F. García, University of bellum New Orleans North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mark McKnight, University of North Texas 8:30 Machito’s Mambo in the US Main- Break, 10:30am–10:45am stream 9:00 Carolina Music Ways: An Explora- Paul Austerlitz, Brown University tion of Musical Economics Peggy A. Hall, University of North 9:00 Afro-Cuban Jazz: Beyond “Rhythm” Carolina at Greensboro Session 11 10:45am–12:45pm and the Primitivist Myth David F. García, University of 9:30 Living Nostalgia at the Tennessee GRAND BALLROOM SOUTH North Carolina at Chapel Hill Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention 11A Forum/Roundtable Chris Goertzen, University of 9:30 The Musical Language of Latin Southern Mississippi Jazz and Five Possibilities for De- 10:45 Toward Better Best Practices fining and Teaching Latin Jazz (Sponsored by the Applied Eth- 10:00 From East to West to the Ol’ Dirty nomusicology Section) Benjamin Lapidus, New School South: Locating the Memphis Rap University Chair: D. A. Sonneborn, Smithsonian Tradition Institution Ray Briggs, California State Uni- Presenters: Theodore C. Levin, Dartmouth 10:00 Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro- versity at Long Beach Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Jazz, and Car- College, AKMICA; Barbara ibbean Jazz: The Politics of Smith, University of Hawai‘i Locating an Inter-cultural Music at Manoa; Jeff Titon, Brown Christopher Washburne, Colum- University; Ricardo Trimillos, bia University University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; D. A. Sonneborn, Smithsonian Institution 36 SEM Newsletter Sunday, November 20, 2005

GRAND BALLROOM NORTH ATLANTA ANSLEY 11B Jazz around the World 11D Representing Gender in Perfor- 11F Music Education around the World mance: Evolutions, Convolutions, Chair: John Murphy, University of North Chair: LaDona Martin-Frost, Millikin and Provocative Symmetries Texas University Chair: Katherine Hagedorn, Pomona 10:45 Latin and the Ideological Con- College 10:45 Indigenous Folk Music in Elemen- struction of Music Genre tary Music Education of Taiwan Melissa Gonzalez, Columbia Univer- 10:45 “Provocative Symmetries”: An since 1987 sity Analysis of Gender and Religious Michelle Chang, University of Florida Experience in Afro-Cuban 11:15 Imagining Africa in Brazilian Jazz “Drum Talk” 11:15 Music Education in Colonial In- Andrew M. Connell, James Madison Katherine Hagedorn, Pomona Col- dia: Nationalism and the Aura of University lege Autonomy Anna Schultz, University of Illinois at 11:45 Hugues Panassié and the Reception 11:15 Tradition’s Inertia and Utopia’s Urbana-Champaign of Jazz in France, 1928-48: A Peculiar Blindness: Interpreting Gender Battle for Particular Times Restrictions in the Performance 11:45 “To Win the Indian Heart”: Music William Edgar, Westminster Theo- ofCuban Batá Drums and Assimilation at Chemawa logical Seminary Kevin Delgado, San Diego State Uni- Indian School versity Melissa D. Parkhurst, University of 12:15 Working the “Swing” Shift: Jazz Wisconsin at Madison Journeymen in New York City 11:45 Convoluting Gender: Represen- Thomas H. Greenland, University of tation and Misrepresentation of 12:15 “Slight tinctures of skin shall no longer California at Santa Barbara the Wodaabe of Niger engage”: How the Tinsawattee School Kathleen Hood, Pomona College Defied Its Mission SHERWOOD Kay Norton, Arizona State University 11C Snapshots of Musical Issues in 12:15 Evolution and Revelation: Re- American Life thinking the Asian American MARIETTA Woman in Popular Music 11G Dance in African and Diasporic Chair: Chris Scales, College of William Christi-Anne Castro, University of Cultures and Mary Michigan Chair: Joann W. Kealiinohomoku, Cross- 10:45 The Saga of a Song: Authorship, GEORGIA Cultural Dance Resources Ownership, and Oral Tradition in the Case of “Guantanamera” 11E Global Rock: New Voices, New 10:45 The Feeling of Transcendance in Peter Manuel, CUNY Graduate Cen- Perspectives (Sponsored by the Afro-Cuban Performance ter Popular Music Section) Amy D. Valladares, New York Uni- Chair: Paul D. Greene, Pennsylvania versity 11:15 Gentrifying the Soundscape: Ac- State University tivism and Music on an Urban 11:15 Conversations with African Dance Street 10:45 Iwan Fals, Bruce Springsteen, and Lynn E. Frederiksen, Tufts University Maureen Loughran, Brown Univer- the Performance of Indonesian sity Masculinity 11:45 Teaching Dagara: Representing Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State Culture and Negotiating Musical 11:45 Covering the Beat: An Ethnomu- University Meaning through the Gyil Xylo- sicologist Reflects on a Second- phone ary Career in Journalism 11:15 Heavy Metal, Terrorism, and Po- Corinna Campbell, Bowling Green Steven Cornelius, Bowling Green State litical Crisis in Nepal: Tropes of State University University Transgression in Kathmandu’s Thrash Metal Scene 12:15 The Travels of the Ghana Dance 12:15 Celluloid Lyre: The Factory-Made Paul D. Greene, Pennsylvania State Ensemble Model: The Cyclic Flow Accordion as Indicator of Emer- University of Nationalism and Modernization gent American Musical Sensibil- Karen Liu, University of California at ity, 1935-1963, with Propositions 11:45 Style, Language, and Identity in Santa Barbara for the Ethnomusicological Study Danish Rock: The Cultural Poli- of Mass-Produced Instruments tics of Karrierekanonen Marion S. Jacobson, Union Univer- Leslie C. Gay, Jr., University of Tennes- sity see

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Conferences Calendar Nov 30-Dec 4 Nov 2-5 American Anthropological As- American Musicological Soci- 2005 sociation 104th Annual Meet- ety Annual Meeting. Century Oct 1-5 ing. Marriott Wardman Park Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA st Music and Society in the 21 Hotel, Washington, DC. For (jointly with the Society for Century. International Music more information, see (website) Music Theory). For more infor- Council and the City of Los http://www.aaanet. org/mtgs/ mation, see (website) http:// Angeles Department of Cultural mtgs.htm www.ams-net.org/annual.html Affairs. Hollywood Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood, California. 2006 Nov 14-19 For more information, visit Feb 15-18 Society for Ethnomusicology (website) http://www.world Reconfiguring, Relocating, Re- Annual Meeting. Honolulu, forumonmusic.com/ or contact discovering. Conference of the Hawai’i. For more information, (email) info@WorldForum International Association for the please visit (website) http:// OnMusic.com Study of Popular Music, US ethnomusicology.org Branch. Murfreesboro/Nash- Oct 15 ville, Tennessee. For more in- 2007 Musical Reception: Actions, formation, contact Susan Fast, Mar 1-4 Reactions, Interactions. The Program Committee Chair: Joint conference of the Society Barker Center, Harvard Univer- (email) 2006conference@ for American Music and the sity, Cambridge, MA. For more iaspm-us.net Music Library Association. information, please contact Pittsburg, PA. For more infor- Sheryl Kaskowitz (conference Mar 16-19 mation, see (website) http:// chair) at (email) skaskow@ Joint conference of the Society www.american-music.org/ fas.harvard.edu and visit for American Music and the (website) http://www.hcs. Center for Black Music Re- Mar 22-25 harvard.edu/gradmus search. Chicago, Illinois. For Association for Asian Studies more information, see (website) Annual Meeting. Marriott Ho- Oct 19-23 http://www.american- tel, Boston, MA. For more American Folklore Society An- music.org/ information, visit (website) nual Meeting. Renaissance http://www.aasianst.org/ Hotel. Atlanta, GA. For more Mar 31-Apr 3 annmtg.htm information, see (website) http:/ British Forum for Ethnomusi- /afsnet.org/ cology Annual Meeting. Uni- Nov 1-4 versity of Winchester, UK. For American Musicological Soci- Oct 27-30 more information, please see ety Annual Meeting. Hilton American Musicological Soci- (website) www.bfe.org.uk or Convention Centre, Quebec ety Annual Meeting. Omni contact Dr. Ruth Hellier-Tinoco City, Canada. For more infor- Shoreham Hotel, Washington, (email) Ruth.Hellier-Tinoco@ mation, see (website) http:// DC. For more information, see winchester.ac.uk www.ams-net.org/annual.html (website) http://www.ams- net.org/annual.html Apr 6-9 Association for Asian Studies Nov 17-21 Annual Meeting. Marriott Ho- Society for Ethnomusicology tel, San Francisco, CA. For th 50 Anniversary Meeting. more information, see (website) Sheraton Midtown Atlanta at http://www.aasianst.org/ Colony Square, Atlanta, Geor- annmtg.htm gia. For more information, please visit (website) http:// Oct 18-22 www.indiana. edu/~semhome/ American Folklore Society An- 2005/ or (website) http:// nual Meeting. Hyatt Regency ethnomusicology.org Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wis- consin. For more information, Nov 19-22 see (website) http://afsnet.org/ Middle East Studies Associa- tion Annual Meeting. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Wash- ington, DC. For more informa- tion, see (website) http:// fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/ SEM Newsletter 39

SEM 50 in Atlanta, Georgia tional Studies, and the Program of Afri- • From the East: Take Interstate 20 West can American Studies. to Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 North. By the SEM 50 LAC Getting to the hotel The most eco- Take Exit 250 (10th and 14th Streets). nomical way to get from the Atlanta Turn right onto 14th Street and the hotel Continued from page 1 Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is three blocks ahead on the left. tee, meet old friends and make new to our conference hotel, Sheraton Mid- • From the North: Take Interstate 75 and ones, and enjoy the musical celebra- town Atlanta at Colony Square, is to Interstate 85 South and exit at 14th Street tions throughout the meeting. take the MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta (Exit 250). Turn left onto 14th Street and Come early for the SEM Pre-confer- Rapid Transit Authority) directly from the hotel is three blocks ahead on the ence Symposium on “Race and Place: the Airport station (S7) to the Arts Cen- left. ter station (N5) (see map). A single one- Invoking New Music Identities” on From the West: Take Interstate 20 East way fare is $1.75. At the Airport station, • Wednesday, November 16. Mark your to Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 North. calendar for the Welcome Reception hop on to any train (trains go north- th th bound from the airport) and in about 35 Take Exit 250 (10 and 14 Streets). and the concert of Korean music on Turn right onto 14th Street and the hotel Thursday evening, and the Gullah mu- minutes, you will arrive at the Arts Center station. It takes approximately is three blocks ahead on the left. sic concert on Friday evening at Emory. For more information, please visit On Saturday, we will celebrate our 10 minutes to walk (five blocks) from the Arts Center station to the Sheraton. (website) http://www.sheraton.com/ anniversary with an afternoon concert colonysquare. Click on “Driving Direc- of music written by pioneer ethnomusi- Head towards Colony Square Mall at the junction of Peachtree Street and 14th tions” and you will be directed to a page cologists, an evening banquet of south- where you can input your starting ad- ern cuisine with some commemorative Street—the Sheraton is linked to the Mall. You can walk through the Mall or dress and receive specific directions on entertainment, followed by an evening how to get to the hotel. You may also of music, theater, and dance. along 14th Street to reach the hotel. Driving directions Here are some visit (website) http://www.indiana.edu/ Emory University is honored to host ~semhome/2005/, the SEM 50 confer- th general directions if you intend to drive: the 50 annual SEM conference through ence website, for more travel informa- From the South (where the airport is the Department of Music and other • tion. units including the Asian Studies Pro- located): Take Interstate 75 or Interstate Updated information on conference gram, Center for the Study of Public 85 North to Exit 250 (10th and 14th th events will be posted on the SEM 50 Scholarship, Department of Russian and Streets). Turn right onto 14 Street and conference website. We warmly wel- East Asian Languages and Cultures, In- the hotel is three blocks ahead on the come you to Atlanta. See you soon! stitute for Comparative and Interna- left.

Wanted! Student Volunteers Needed for SEM 50th Anniversary Meeting

Volunteers will monitor at least four (possibly five) sessions (including plenary sessions) and receive reim-

bursement of registration fee. Re- From MARTA website: www.itsmarta.com quests for particular sessions will be honored in the order received.

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SEM Soundbyte emic/etic. On the other hand, some of the same to be true for you. The other these concepts still have much analytic is that there seems to be a balance Continued from page 3 utility, and it surprises me that we don’t between inveterate topics, part of the have more papers referencing discourse, history of our field as it were, and newer the future. There were 17 papers on ideology, cosmopolitanism, immigra- ones that indicate shifting directions genre, including hybrids and hybridity. tion/migration, and minorities in their and our engagement with a changing There were also 16 papers on what I call titles. Perhaps this list is an accident of world. pressing problems that we are just in the synchronic analysis and of paper titles, initial stages of considering: “medical and these keywords will reappear at ethnomusicology,” especially in rela- future meetings in greater numbers. Obviously, studying the tion to the HIV/AIDs pandemic, and Also at the bottom of the list, some titles role of music in establish- war, violence, and “traumatic experi- employ keywords that have not been as ing and expressing the ence.” These themes have long in- thoroughly assimilated by ethnomusi- multilayered and shifting spired anthropologists and I am pleased cology as the ones above: mimesis, nature of identity in the that ethnomusicologists are finally en- alterity, simulacra, cultural imaginary, gaging with them to the extent we see rhetoric, and self-referentiality. Whether modern world continues in this program. and to what extent these words have a to provide us with a rich At the bottom of the list of topics future in our field will be interesting to vein to mine intellectually. were papers on the customary topics of follow in the years ahead. text and language (7) and musical in- A couple of things strike me about struments (7). Actually at the bottom of this analysis. One is that except for All in all, I find the program inspir- the list were a rather large number of identity and the history and nature of ing, and so I am looking forward to our familiar keywords that inspired only ethnomusicology, themes that seem to 50th anniversary meeting as a chance to one or two papers. Some of these engage most of us at some level, there engage with colleagues and students concepts are probably so taken for is little if any correlation between the across this broad range of interests, to granted that they are either no longer frequency that a theme appears and my examine critically where we have come powerful enough to engage us or they own interests. In each of the frequency from, to understand where we stand simply don’t rise to the level of the title: categories (those in the 30s, the 20s, and today, and to think about what kind of I am thinking here of orality, revival/ the teens), I find themes that deeply intellectual and institutional future we revitalizing/rejuvenation, social con- interest me and those that I am rather might have, both in the U.S. and abroad. struction, semiotics, soundscape, and neutral about. I imagine you will find I hope to see you there!

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